Course Name	International Politics English Seminar
Credits	3
Professor(s)	Name	Sim Heung-Soo
	Affiliation	Department of Political Science

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Course Objectives

This course is designed to introduce important international issues. In the first half of the semester, we deal with the Cuban Missile Crisis. Leadership qualities, crisis behavior, collective action problems are some of the important issues that we handle here. In the latter half of the semester, students are exposed to pertinent issues such as the Holocaust, the North-South problem, nuclear proliferation, the debt problem, and environmental problems. Students are encouraged to utilize English as a medium of communication.

MAIN TEXTBOOK and FURTHER READINGS

Main text: Robert Kennedy, Thirteen Days, Norton, 1971.

Further readings: John T. Rourke, Mcgraw-Hill College, 2006

ASSIGNMENTS AND GRADING

Assignments:

1. translation (to be distributed)

2. readings as assigned in the course schedule

3. presentation material

4. presentation

Grading Scheme:

Translation 10% / Participation 10% / Mid-term 30%/ Presentation 20% /Final 30%

COURSE SCHEDULE

Course Outline

Week.1: Overview

Week.2: Introduction: Tuesday Morning(lecture)

Week.3: The President(lecture)

Week.4: A majority opinion(lecture)

Week.5: Important meeting, I met with Dobrynin(lecture)

Week.6: The danger, Daily communication(lecture, Presentation and discussion)

Week.7: Expect, This would mean war(lecture, Presentation and discussion)

Week.8: Those hours, the President ordered(lecture, Presentation and discussion)

Week.9: some of the things(lecture, Presentation and discussion)

Week.10: Other country's shoes(lecture, Presentation and discussion)

Week.11: Holocaust(lecture, Presentation and discussion)

Week.12: Holocaust(lecture, Presentation and discussion)

Week.13: Holocaust(lecture, Presentation and discussion)

Week.14: Take-home final exam distributed(self- study)

Week.15: Overall Discussion

CONTACT DETAILS

Tel: 82-55-772-1274          e-mail: hssim@gnu.ac.kr