Day by day shedule

POL 200 Day by Day Schedule

Class 1
Introductions; review syllabus and course requirements
Learn how to use text book’s companion website; each student creates a registered profile
Review Chapter 1
Journal due (Each journal is a one-page response to a section in your Global Issues book. You may write more than one page if desired, and you may consult
additional sources if you want the chance for an A)


Class 2
View website reading selections:

National Security Strategy of the United States of America, available at
http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nss.html (about 30 pages of PDF file
text)
• THUCYDIDES (438 BC) "THE MELIAN DIALOGUE," CHAPTER 17 IN HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR. HTTP://WWW.MTHOLYOKE.EDU/ACAD/INTREL/MELIAN.HTM
• CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ (1873) "WAR IS AN INSTRUMENT OF POLICY" IN ON WAR HTTP://WWW.CLAUSEWITZ.COM/CWZHOME/ON_WAR/BK8CH06.HTML#B
• HANS MORGENTHAU (1978), "SIX PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL REALISM" PP. 4-15 IN POLITICS AMONG NATIONS., 5TH ED., REVISED. HTTP://WWW.MTHOLYOKE.EDU/ACAD/INTREL/MORG6.HTM
• IMMANUEL KANT (1795). "PERPETUAL PEACE: A PHILOSOPHICAL SKETCH" HTTP://WWW.MTHOLYOKE.EDU/ACAD/INTREL/KANT/KANT1.HTM
• WOODROW WILSON (1918). "THE FOURTEEN POINTS" HTTP://WWW.YALE.EDU/LAWWEB/AVALON/WILSON14.HTM


Review Chapter 2
Journal due


Class 3
Review Chapter 3
View Film: Commanding Heights
Part III, “The New Rules of the Game,” covers the boom in economic growth and free trade in the 1990s as well as problems of economic instability and growing inequality.
Journal due


Class 4
Review Chapter 4
Students take political quizzes at http://www.selectsmart.com/politics.html
No Journal due


Class 5
Paper 1 due (analysis of a foreign country’s motivations for its foreign policies)
Midterm (covers chapter 1-4 and class lecture material)
No Journal due

Class 6
Review chapter 5
Review United Nations (1948). "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights" http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
Journal due

Class 7
Review Chapter 6
Journal due

Class 8
Review Chapter 7
Journal due

Class 9
Review Chapter 8
Class Debate—(class is divided into tow team that formally debate a pre-selected issue in international politics)
No journal due

Class 10
Online map quizzes due or students take map tests
Paper 2 due (take a position on an issue with international political significance and support that position—3-4 pages, 4-5 sources, APA format [WIC paper])
Final exam (cumulative--covers chapters 1-8 and class lecture material)