| Topic |
Assignment |
Quiz on chapters |
| Introductions
Political Vocabuary: Politics
Political Vocbulary: the state
|
video: The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century, Pt.
1: Explosion |
Jan 8 No quiz this week
Mingst ch 1 &2
Kaufman ch 1
|
Theoretical thinking
Models in Social Science
public
opinion and foreign policy lecture |
Media journal due
Discussion Topic: How would a realist, a liberal and a radical
theorist explain the shift in US foreign policy in the years 1865-1920?
For Jan 15
Quiz on reading Jan 15
|
Jan 15 First Blue Book
Mingst ch3
Mingst ch 4
Kaufman ch 2 |
| The State |
Media journal due |
Jan 22
Mingst ch 5 |
| The Individual |
Media journal due |
Jan 29
Mingst ch 6 |
| International Organizations |
Media Journal due
Discussion Topic: How would the different theories use system level
concepts to explain the "interwar years" described in
Kaufman. Jan 22
Quiz on reading Jan 29 |
Feb 3
Mingst ch 7
Kaufman ch 3 |
| Regional Reports to be presented |
Media Journal due
Regional Report Week |
Feb 12
Systems theory
|
| War and Strife |
Media Journal due
discussion topic for Wed
Realist, Liberal, Radical discussion of war
|
Feb 22=28
Mingst ch 8 for Feb 26 |
| Neo Colonialism and Cold War |
|
March 5
Kaufman ch 4 for March 5
|
| Globalization |
Media Journal due
Discussion Topic: How was globalization effected by the Cold War?
Quiz on reading |
March 12
Mingst ch 9 for March 12
lecture on cold war here |