CLICK HERE for the Remote Learning Plan for Week 5 (April 27-May 1).
CLICK HERE for the Google Slides presentation in which you will slot your working resolutions today.
CLICK HERE for the Sign-Up Sheet to Pick Your Options Group for the Final Choices Activity on Nigeria or Brazil.
Sunday, April 26, 2020
Monday, April 20, 2020
Week 4: Remote Learning Plan
Friday, April 10, 2020
Week 3 Remote Learning Plan: The Law of the Sea, The Law of Space
Our asynchronous class calls will be on Monday and Wednesday from 9:40-10:25 via Zoom. You will receive an invitation with a password via your email account. Zoom #1 will be a full class format to explain directions for the mini-units, followed by work-time toward the project.
Prior to our calls, you should have completed the SIGN UP SHEET.
On Monday when your third remote learning week begins, you may find the curriculum materials in our Schoology COURSE entitled "AT Comparative Politics and Global Relations." Go to our course, then go to "Materials," locate either the folder labeled "Mini-Unit Law of the Sea" or the folder labeled "Mini-Unit Law of Space." Read the introductory description to the mini-unit. Then click on the folder itself. Now you should be inside a folder that gives you sequential activities to complete.
On Monday when your third remote learning week begins, you may find the curriculum materials in our Schoology COURSE entitled "AT Comparative Politics and Global Relations." Go to our course, then go to "Materials," locate either the folder labeled "Mini-Unit Law of the Sea" or the folder labeled "Mini-Unit Law of Space." Read the introductory description to the mini-unit. Then click on the folder itself. Now you should be inside a folder that gives you sequential activities to complete.
Zoom #2 will be a full class format to answer questions, followed by work-time toward the project.
Please plan to finish your videos and turn in your completed HOT ASSIGNMENT (i.e., your own unique mind-map) to Schoology by the end of the day on Thursday.
Your FINAL PRODUCT (i.e., speech) is due to be given verbally Week Four, Zoom #1 (Wednesday, April 22). We will begin at 9:40 am. Speeches will be a minimum of 2 minutes and a maximum of 2 minutes 30 seconds.
After speeches, we will move into deliberative discussion to discuss our multiple perspectives on moving forward with the issues that arose. We discussed whether this should be a 75 minute Zoom call, and students decided this should be a 45 minute Zoom call (9:40-10:25 am). Make sure to be PROMPT.
Friday, April 3, 2020
Week 2 Remote Learning Plan: Contemporary Iran
Our asynchronous class calls will be on Monday and Friday from 9:40-10:25 via Zoom. You will receive an invitation with a password via your email account. Zoom #1 will be a full class discussion of materials provided by Ms. Gerst immediately below; Zoom #2 will involve breakout groups on the individual group topics.
Zoom Call #1
PREP: Please review the videos and charts sent by Ms. Gerst ahead of the call.
Deliberative discussion question: How does the electoral system work in Iran?
Make you sure have watched Ms. Gerst's entire Week 1 VIDEO and the Week 2 VIDEO (try to watch at least 15 minutes to hear 2 opposing views) on the blog linked HERE before class starts at 9:40 am. Please save the below charts to your computer for class.
Zoom Call #2
PREP: Please review the projects of the other groups posted on our blog HERE. And don’t forget to complete the survey I sent you. Only 50% have responded so far.
Mixed Expert Groupings for Contemporary Iran Discussions
We agreed to mix up the original working groups, placing one expert from each original group into a new group so that every group has representatives from all of the original groups. Group assignments for break-out groups for next week are sorted by student initials. Next week, we will have one video call in which we breakout into the new groups for these topics and one video call in which we stay to together to discuss my video topics (i.e., political analysis and role in the region). I'm pretty sure I can enter the break-out groups as a moderator, rotating from group to group randomly to listen in on the discussion.
Break-out Group #1
P.S. (I-I War)
N.R. (Women)
S.S. (Nuclear)
C.D. (Nuclear)
J.C. (Women)
Break-out Group #2
B.R. (I-I War)
E.G. (Women)
M.S. (Nuclear)
C.C. (Nuclear)
A.K. (Women)
Break-out Group #3
N.A. (I-I War)
M.W. (Women)
F.W. (Nuclear)
B.C. (Nuclear)
G.S. (women)
E.F. (Iran-Iraq)
Break-out Group #4
S.A. (I-I war)
G.M. (women)
A.A. (nuclear)
A.B. (nuclear)
A.G. (women)
Monday, March 9, 2020
Week 1 Contemporary Iran: I.R. Perspectives Projects
Students decided which of the following topics to focus their project.
#1 Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988)
Group 5 Project
#2 Trajectory of Women's Issues (1980-present)
Group 1 Project
Group 2 Project
#3 Comparative Political Systems (e.g., constitutional and electoral change)
Gerst Video Part I
Gerst Video Part II
#4 Transformation of Regional Response
Gerst Video Part III
#5 The nuclear issue
Group 3
Group 4
Your project must integrate multiple perspectives of International Relations:
Liberalist
Realist
Economic Structuralist
English Rationalist
Feminism (which contains multiple perspectives as well)
Social Constructivist
Critical Theory
Governmentality
Network theory
Your project must incorporate the three themes of International Relations:
Security
Economy
Identity
Your project must have a bibliography that reflects your use multiple scholarly sources in order to ensure reliability, corroboration, competing narratives, and multiple perspectives. Scholarly sources may be drawn from the class blog, Choices.edu (both the Iran module and the "Teaching in the News" and the "Video" link), ABC-CLIO, World History in Context.
Your may choose one of the following products, which may incorporate audio and visual elements (e.g., a "few" slides, mindmap, and visual scribe).
1. TedTalk
2. Mini-Documentary
3. Podcast
4. Website
#1 Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988)
Group 5 Project
#2 Trajectory of Women's Issues (1980-present)
Group 1 Project
Group 2 Project
#3 Comparative Political Systems (e.g., constitutional and electoral change)
Gerst Video Part I
Gerst Video Part II
#4 Transformation of Regional Response
Gerst Video Part III
#5 The nuclear issue
Group 3
Group 4
Your project must integrate multiple perspectives of International Relations:
Liberalist
Realist
Economic Structuralist
English Rationalist
Feminism (which contains multiple perspectives as well)
Social Constructivist
Critical Theory
Governmentality
Network theory
Your project must incorporate the three themes of International Relations:
Security
Economy
Identity
Your project must have a bibliography that reflects your use multiple scholarly sources in order to ensure reliability, corroboration, competing narratives, and multiple perspectives. Scholarly sources may be drawn from the class blog, Choices.edu (both the Iran module and the "Teaching in the News" and the "Video" link), ABC-CLIO, World History in Context.
Your may choose one of the following products, which may incorporate audio and visual elements (e.g., a "few" slides, mindmap, and visual scribe).
1. TedTalk
2. Mini-Documentary
3. Podcast
4. Website
Sources to Find Multiple Perspectives within the 1979 Revolution
Choices Brown University on the Iranian Revolution (notice the video tutorials on various subtopics)
Iran Oral History Project (Harvard University, unless you read Farsi, filter for 64 English translations)
Iran 1979: Legacy (al Jazeera)
BBC Collects Recollections on 30th Anniversary and University of Manchester Digitization Project
Oxford Bibliography (which contains many of the sources I located independently below)
What to Read to Understand the Revolution (Brookings Institute)
Tehran Bureau PBS Frontline
Documenting Iran-U.S. Relations, 1978-2015 (National Security Archive, George Washington University), includes Iran Revolution Revisited and 1979 Revolution documents
What to Read in Order to Understand the Iranian Revolution (Brookings Institute)
Crash Course: Iran's Revolution
Ideology and Iran's Revolution: How 1979 Changed the World
Anti-Capitalism/Anti-Imperialism (Marxist and Islamic (Shariati))
Documents of the Iranian Revolutionary Movement
The Stolen Revolution: Iranian Women of 1979 (CBC Radio, March 2019)
- Minoo Jalali is a women's rights activist, retired lawyer and chair of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants in London, UK. She fled Iran in 1983.
- Haideh Daragahi was a professor of English Literature at Tehran University when Khomeini took power. She has lived in Sweden since 1984 and worked as an academic, women's rights activist and journalist.
- Shahin Navai is an activist in the women's movement and a researcher in the field of Entomology. She fled Iran in 1984 and has since lived in Berlin, Germany.
The Role of the 1953 Coup
Bazargan and the LMI
Friday, February 21, 2020
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