I chose option number three for my issues paper because it is very non-restrictive.  It's kind of the wild card of the bunch.  I'm sure almost anything can be tweaked to fit into the category of globalization.  So because my only true passion in life is art history, I thought that doing a paper within that subject would make this process less painful. I am having trouble coming up with a question that is specific enough, but I have some general ideas.  A topic that I think would be interesting to cover would be differences and similarities in art, so my research question could be "Has art become more uniform through increased globalization?".  To make it more specific, I could just focus on a certain country, like France, but that would be difficult because I would have to compare works from may different countries to emphasize the idea of globalization, so the essay would end up being about many places and not just France anyway.  I'm not sure quite sure if my question is specific, enough, but if so, I think I could "enter the discourse" fairly quickly because it is my major. I already am familiar with the general evolution of art, so the task for me would be to look back and see if and how the art has become less diverse and look to other people's opinions on the subject as well. I think that I could find some opinions on the general trends of art just by Google and the HBLL website to get my research started.