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Week 3: Social Identities in an International Context (Tues. 9/16, Wed. 9/17, Thur. 9/18)
Guiding Question: What are social identities and why are they important to studying
international issues?
o Listen to presentation on social identities.
o Reflect on how social identities have impacted our lives so far and what they
have to do with studying and working in international affairs.
o Assignments: Read the story What Language is That? from Say Youre
One of Them by Uwem Akpan for next week.
Week 4: The Danger of a Single Story (Tues. 9/23, Wed. 9/24, Thur. 9/25)
Assignments: Read pages 9-17 of We the Peoples: The Role of the United
Nations in the 21st Century by Kofi Annan for next week.
Week 6: Globalization in Our Personal Lives (Tues. 10/7, Wed. 10/8, Thur. 10/9)
Guiding Question: What are the different ways that globalization has impacted peoples
personal lives?
o Watch several clips that introduce the stories of Third Culture Kids (TCKs) and
international students.
o Listen to and speak to guest speakers who have their own experiences living in
foreign countries.
o Assignments: Read pages 27 to 37 of Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas
Friedman for next week.
Week 7: Some Problems with Globalization (Tues. 10/14, Wed. 10/15, Thur. 10/16)
Guiding Question: What are some of the challenges facing our globalizing communities?
o Watch a clip discussing the UN Millennium goals.
o Discuss the connections between the problems outlined in the clip and the
reading.
o Assignments: Reflection 3 Assigned
o UN Millennium Goal Project: UN Millennium Goal Profile Due
Block 3: The UN Millennium Goals: Attempting Change
Week 8: Medicine as a Global Topic (Tues. 10/21, Wed. 10/22, Thur. 10/23)
Guiding Question: What are some of the health challenges facing our globalizing
communities?
o Watch clips describing UN Millennium Goals 4, 5, and 6.
o Discuss how knowledge of international affairs can be a benefit to those in the
medical professions.
o Assignments: Reflection 3 Due
o Assignments: Read pages 59 74 of No God but God by Reza Aslan for
next week.
Week 9: Gender and Universal Primary Education (Tues. 10/28, Wed. 10/29, Thur. 10/30)
Guiding Question: What unique challenges do women and young children face?
o Watch a clip discussing feminist activism in a global context and discuss drawing
on the assigned reading.
o Assignments: Read Chapter Five of Affluenza by Graaf, Wann, and Naylor
for next week.
Week 10: Economic and Environmental Inequality (Tues. 11/4, Wed. 11/5, Thur. 11/6)
Guiding Question: How is economic inequality connected to issues of health and the
environment?
o Participate in the Win as much as you can! activity.
o Debrief activity using the reading.
o UN Millennium Goals Project: Presentations Begin Next Week!
Week 11: UN Millennium Goals Presentations
(Tues. No Class Veterans Day, Wed. 11/12, Thur. 11/13)
Week 12: UN Millennium Goals Presentations
(Tues. 11/17, Wed. 11/19, Thur. 11/20)
o Assignments: Reflection 4 Assigned
Week 13: Thanksgiving No Class this week.
(Tues. 11/25 will hold presentations next week.)
Week 14: Course Wrap Up and Second Semester Expectations
(Tues. 12/2 - Presentations, Wed. 12/3, Thur. 12/4)
Guiding Question: What comes next in the IA Scholars Program?
o Assignments: Reflection 4 Due
Week 15: Course Wrap Up and Second Semester Expectations
(Tues. 12/9 Make up from Thanksgiving week, Wed. and Thurs. No Class)
Guiding Question: What comes next in the IA Scholars Program?