The Final exam, which you must take by the end of week fifteen of your enrollment,
consists of three parts:  map quiz (25 points), chronology (25 points) and essay (50
points).
The essay question is:  Summarize and characterize developments in two diverse
regions of the world since 1945.  Choose from Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle
East, Sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Europe or Latin America.
The map quiz part of the exam is a straightforward.  You will be asked to locate some
geographical items on a blank map, and you already have a list of those items and a
blank map with which to study.  The chronology part of the exam asks you to choose
the most important events/people/ideas of the last fifty years and identify their
importance in chronological order.
The most important part of the final exam is the essay question.  If you look closely at
the essay question, you will see that it includes information that you studied for both of
the paragraph essays and for the midterm exam.  It should also include material that
you discovered while either doing the module essays or preparing the current events
paper.  Please note, however, that this particular question is both more open than the 
question on the midterm ("developments" versus the "political environment") but also
more restrictive, since you are to deal with only select areas of the world.  Please also
remember that a comparison answer also includes some points of contrast.
It is important as you prepare for the exam, and you cannot take notes or any other
materials into the examination, that you focus your answer on one or two important
points or theses.  Make sure that your written answer has a structure with clearly
identifiable points that I can follow.  There is no single right answer for this question,
but there are many possibilities.  It is also important that you cite evidence for whatever
points you try to make.  Finally, from your reading in the textbook and your earlier work
in the course, it is clear that there have been substantial changes, either political,
economic, social, etc., in various areas of the world since 1945 (For example, just try to
imagine the difference between life in Atlanta in 1952 and 2000.).  This question gives
you the opportunity to put those changes in some sort of meaningful analytical context.