Philippine history during colonial period

 1. This should feature research work using PRIMARY sources. 2. Make sure to submit your topic and planned strategies for approval by June 11. This is worth 5 points. 3. Consider doing archival research work. Take advantage of the sources available at UC Berkeley – we have one of the best Philippine collections in the U.S. Look at the Guide to the Barrows. Also consider The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 by Emma Blair and James Alexander Robertson. It is available at archive.org.https://archive.org/details/thephilippineisl15445gut 4. Make sure you review it. 5. Another option is to do oral history through interviews. Select your interviees carefully. Consult with me about this. 6. The average number of pages for a research paper is 8-10 pages. 7. For those enrolled in multiple classes with me this summer, please consult with me about doing an expanded version of your research topic, so that you can submit a longer paper but on a single topic. For example, you are doing a paper on the first decade of American occupation on the Philippines. You found some documents in the Barrows collection , then supplemented this with a newspaper article from the Library of Congress online (example: this 1899 article from The San Francisco Call — https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1899-02-08/ed-1/seq-1/then, wrote about one of the “symbolic plays of the period. Suggested number of pages are as follows. Two classes — 14-16 pages. Three classes – 20-22 pages. 8. Please do not obsess with the number of pages. be concerned not with length, but content. 9. In evaluating your papers,  look into the following: originality, primary sources used (please use proper documentation), organization of material, ideas/arguments presented. You can use either the MLA format or the Chicago Manual of Style.