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Politics, Week 12

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Politics, Week 12 Instructional Plan

This week

  • Chapter 12 Government Systems and Regimes (week 12)
  • Applied knowledge: use our knowledge of politics to understand recent events (Thursday)

Coming soon

  1. November 23 –  Chapter 13 Political Executive and Leadership (week 13) and quiz #2
  2. November 30 – review (week 14)
  3. December 7 – reading week, no classes (week 15)
  4. December 14 – final exam

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Politics Week 1

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Politics Week 1 Instructional Plan

This week

  1. course introduction, syllabus and website format (syllabus pdf file)
  2. what is politics?
  3. what is an argument? (workshop)

For next week

  1. read chapter 2 in textbook
  2. complete Chapter 2 discussion questions and vocabulary or get the pdf file.
  3. review optional material

Added Material

Today we begin a series of lessons that will help you think and speak more clearly, logically and precisely.

This is the beginning of our lesson on critical thinking.

  1. The first step in that learning is to understand arguments.
  2. The second step for today is to understand the difference between facts and inferences.

Inference and Facts

Here is a quick exercise to understand inferences. Look at this photo.

Read these statements and mark, true, false or can’t answer.

  1. This is graduation day for the Thomas family.
  2. The father is proud of his son.
  3. The sister looks up to her brother.
  4. This is a prosperous family.
  5. The son has just graduated from law school.

1. Course Introduction

Readings in Political Science

Busan University of Foreign Studies

Instructor Information

Rob Whyte B.A. M.Sc. Office: D570, Office hours: TBA

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