Pol 201 Powerpoints

Here are power point presentations to help guide you in the readings.

Political Behavior

Comparative Politics

International Relations

Political Theory

Public Policy and Administration

Political Economy

Final Exam All of 1POL 2012

State Science:

Innovations and Current Practices in Politics

Objective

To create practical awareness about the study of political science both within the student as individual, the students as a scholarly body, and their university community through a symposium on the following areas: international politics (handled by 1pol1), political science research (1pol2), political economy (1pol3).

Role

In this activity you are tasked to become expert organizers of a political science symposium the aim of which is help disseminate current practical knowledge of the discipline.

Audience

Members of the UST community both taking political science and other disciplines as far as other colleges such as CFAD, ENG, CTHM, etc.

Hence, the talk as per topic must be able to demystify political jargon while discussing practical use of political science's knowledge.

Situation

The challenge involves social, organization, and public speaking skills in bringing about a successful political science symposium.  You will have committees in charge of

DOCUMENTATION,

COMMUNICATION,
FINANCE,

SECURING THE GUEST SPEAKERS,

LOGISTICS, USHERS AND RUNNERS

AND HOSTING THE PROGRAM

Product, Performance, Purpose

The symposium that you will organize must be able to help disseminate political science knowledge for use both by members and non-members of the political science community.

The event will be approximately 4 hrs.  30 minutes for opening, 1 subsequent hr each per topic, 30 min for closing.  Each speaker will have 45 minutes for the talk, and 15 minutes allotted for Q&A.

Student reactors will come primarily from sections as follows:

Reactors for International politics = 1pol2

Reactors for Political science research = 1pol3

Reactors for Political economy = 1pol1

Hence you will not be reacting to your own hosted area.

Deadline

October 2 or 4, 2012

8:00-12:00

Evaluation

• 1 page, 2-3 short paragraph content / student (rigorous and insightful paper on the theme while incorporating the section’s topic):  1-5 
• Activity Communications / Documents (letters, invitations, certificates meticulously prepared and distributed on-time): 1-5
• Logistics (venue, date, schedule properly secured): 1-5
• Quality of Guest speaker based on credentials (internationally recognized): 1-5
• Community Impact (overwhelming attendance of interested attendees): 1-5 
• Overall Class Product (inspiring program, hosting, inter-student and section cooperation can be observed): 1-5

Total : 30 credits

Grade Matrix

1 - simply able to create output.

2 - very flawed output, riddled with glitches.

3 - met requirements, preseence of minor flaws.

4 - met requirements, lacks impressive impact.

5 - met all required objectives with high quality impact.

P.S.

All letters for securing venues, and permits must have the message that the activity is "part of the course academic requirement and will constitute a significant part of the student's Final Grades".  This will help facilitate processing.                 

Tour Synthesis Guidelines

Your paper's goal is the incorporation of the "real" into the abstract concepts. The tour provided a glimpse of three major institutions. However, in order to create a holistic experience, students will write a synthesis of the field trip along with a chosen political event that recently happened involving one of the three institutions visited.

This event must have a tie-up with one of the chosen institutions that was visited. And sources of information must be primarily from RESPECTABLE PERIODICALS.

The tour synthesis will be a description, exposition and commentary about the studen's chosen political event and institution. It can be likened to a news report/editorial, the student is the journalist. Note that this is not a Journalism/Mass Communications paper. Rather, it is a Political Science document whose goal is to 1) describe a recent political phenomenon in the real world, and 2) point out rationally the political implications of this phenomenon.

The synthesis must have one 2x3 picture of the student in a location within the chosen institution. And the document will be limited to a single page. Reference list should be at the very bottom. 2 citations (1 for picture, 1 for news info source). The picture must be captioned (very briefly describing the background) along with a credit on who took the picture, and when.

Evaluation is same as all think pieces.