Welcome to POSC240-012!
This is where you will be posting 10 blogs throughout the semester; 4 blogs in September, 3 in October, & 3 in November. Your entries should tackle current events, reactions to lectures and readings, & comments & questions about the class.
Make sure you write substantial and thought-provoking entries & write your full name at the end of each post!
Start blogging!
Nick & Sara
Monday, August 27, 2007
Comments on the class
This is the place where you can post any question or comment about the class that you may have. We will answer your concerns through this blog so make sure you check it periodically.
12 comments:
Anonymous
said...
Hi class,
I just wanted to personally welcome everyone to Intro to IR. I also just wanted to test the blog that Sara has put together for us. See you in class!
Hey! My name is Ryan Harrison, I am the easy one to remember, I am the student with the busted up leg! I am 21 years old (until December 12). I transfered in from Del Tech. I am a Sophmore, as well as a History major, and i would like to touch on the last class we had. Coming from Del Tech i am not accustomed to have auditorium size classrooms, nor having 90 plus kids in the class. And although it was a new feeling for me, Nick seemed unrattled and confident. Which shows he obviously has taught before (?) and the type of way he carried himdself (confident, clear,etc) automatically gives me a sense that i will have a clear undersdtanding of the class (if i apply myself enough) due to the fact that I will be able to understand the material better due to the attributes nick has. if, say i had a squirrly mummbling dr. doolittle teacher, i would be more inclined to worrying, because i think i would have a lot more trouble learning because of the huge contrast in atmospheres i am accustomed to and also trying to merely follow the teachers lectures every calss. In closing i think our first class was extremely short, (not that i am complaining) but maybe there could have been something inthe syllabus we could have gone in depth more, instead of flying through it? I dont know, i have to critique something, or else this blog probably wouldnt have been accepted!
I sent this as an email to the class. Thought I'd put it up here too:
Greetings all,
I did some investigating about the claim that the bookstores are out of "The Origins of the Modern World" book. Here's the skinny: Lieberman's on Main street is out of it; however they will have 6 copies in on Tuesday (hopefully). The UD bookstore in Perkins Hall still has 9 copies on the shelf; so rush there today or tomorrow and grab one. The UD bookstore is still waiting to get copies of "The Lexus & the Olive Tree," however Lieberman's has a lot of copies (and you may also order it through amazon or half.com since we will not be reading it until November). I have no idea what Rainbow Books has or doesn't have, as I didn't look.
I forgot to mention this when we reviewed the syllabus, but I would like to fly through the "Origins of the Modern World" book in the next few weeks. You will notice that I have us listed as reading the first 67 pages for next week. My suggestion to you is to bang it out this weekend. It'll make the lectures much more clear for you. It's not a complicated read, so if you're an average reader like me it should take roughly 3 hours (read half Saturday and the rest on Sunday so you can be free of IR work on Labor Day).
Lastly, feel free to start blogging! Some people have already put up a few posts. http://posc240.blogspot.com
Hi my name is Andrew Unthank i am a second year student here at Delaware. I am currently on the Men's Varsity Lacrosse team here. Currently Undecided on a major, but i am leaning towards History or Political Science. I chose this class because i find International Relations a very interesting subject and want to learn about and possible take a career in it. Today in class i liked the maps that were showed i thought that was pretty cool. Well i will see you guys in class.
I'm a transfer from Washington College, and I am still adjusting to the large class sizes as well...all of my classes there had 20-30 people tops; so being in a room with 90+ people is new to me, though I am still glad to see class participation is big (I'm pretty opinionated about a lot of things going on in the world, so I like to talk about them). But yea, see everyone in class.
Hey my name is Elizabeth Lodge, I am a freshman and throw the Javelin here. Thus far I think this class is a interesting and is going to be even more so as we continue. As you guys said i am coming from high school where classes were a lot smaller so this is somewhat nerve racking speaking up in a class so large, but i liked the maps as well i thought it was an interesting prespective on the world. see you weds. ---Elizabeth Lodge
Hi, I am a freshman and I'm an undecided major. I agree with the comment above me. I really enjoy this class and find it very interesting especially the maps at the end of class on Thursday if I could change something it would be to slow down a little bit with the reading, but other than that i can't really complain. Compared to high school classes the college atmosphere has been overwhelming, but I'm sure it just takes some getting use to. -Brittany Monteiro
my name is Corey Wall. im a freshman ....i wasn't too excited about being in international relations but i'm glad i took it because i find it pretty interesting and definitely a lot better than i thought it would be.
elizabeth, i run the 400 & 800 in track so im sure i will be seeing you a lot in the spring.
those maps on friday were really cool. i was kind of mad it was moving so fast i wish we had more time to look at them
Hi, My name is Kristin Iorii I am a second year student. My major is Business with a minor in Spanish. I like discussing other countries in class and learning more about them since I love to travel. I have been to a lot of countries over in Europe and I can see the differences between there way of life and ours and this class will help me get a better understanding of those differences. Kristin Iorii
Hey my name is Eric Goodman and I am from Richmond, Virginia. Currently I plan on maojoring in finance, but I also intend on minoring in political science and possibly changing my intended major to political science if my interest on the subject grows. The reason I took this class is because the past two summers I have worked on Capitol Hill as a Page for the U.S. House of Representatives and as an intern for Congressman Eric Cantor. So far I think the class is interesting and I hope we begin to have more class discussions on current issues throughout the world.
After taking notes on the discussion from Monday's class (Nation State & Territorial Sovereignty), I noted parallels from a previous discussion on systems and societies.
You could link a state to a system and a nation to a society. The idea of International Society is similar to Territorial Sovereignty, where we used similar arguments that help regulate conduct.
Examples of a state, that came from class, are a bureaucracy, security, and affiliation that are similar to a system where you have examples like government, order, and bringing together. A state, similar to a system, needs interaction, in order to work.
Examples for a nation applied to things such as shared culture, unity, religion, and beliefs which are very similar to a society's examples such as similar ideals, social expectations, and cooperation.
For Territorial Sovereignty, we discussed an internal hierarchy and external autonomy, which is like the organizations that help constitute the argument for an international society such as trade (WTO), diplomacy (UN), and war (NATO).
One could argue that a state is merely another name for a system, nation is a society, and an territorial sovereignty is an international society. Based on the examples given in class and the broader definitions, it seems that this is plausible. Especially in the case of an international society, this would shed more light on the issue by using territorial sovereignty as a qualifier. We can go from arguing its existence regarding organizations which advocate for it to concretely stating that the recognition of territories is a mutual, agreed upon, universal principle.
It begs the question, is territorial sovereignty a solid argument to contend that an international society exists?
Hello class. I had a question. I am trying to print out the slides for class but am having a hard time getting them to print out like all of my other classes power points. The only way I can make it work is by copying and pasteing them into word ( which is a very time consuming process). I was wondering if anyone knew the trick to making this a less painfull process. I have never taken a IR class before but find it interesting to think about the world in a new way. I enjoy the movies that are showen in class and feel the internet is a good tool to teach students. I am a senior political science major and played varsity soccer here my first two years (until i realised i would be on the vanwilder plan if i continued to play). Just wanted to say hello and ask about my power point problems. See you all tomorrow.
12 comments:
Hi class,
I just wanted to personally welcome everyone to Intro to IR. I also just wanted to test the blog that Sara has put together for us. See you in class!
-ng-
Hey! My name is Ryan Harrison, I am the easy one to remember, I am the student with the busted up leg! I am 21 years old (until December 12). I transfered in from Del Tech. I am a Sophmore, as well as a History major, and i would like to touch on the last class we had. Coming from Del Tech i am not accustomed to have auditorium size classrooms, nor having 90 plus kids in the class. And although it was a new feeling for me, Nick seemed unrattled and confident. Which shows he obviously has taught before (?) and the type of way he carried himdself (confident, clear,etc) automatically gives me a sense that i will have a clear undersdtanding of the class (if i apply myself enough) due to the fact that I will be able to understand the material better due to the attributes nick has. if, say i had a squirrly mummbling dr. doolittle teacher, i would be more inclined to worrying, because i think i would have a lot more trouble learning because of the huge contrast in atmospheres i am accustomed to and also trying to merely follow the teachers lectures every calss. In closing i think our first class was extremely short, (not that i am complaining) but maybe there could have been something inthe syllabus we could have gone in depth more, instead of flying through it? I dont know, i have to critique something, or else this blog probably wouldnt have been accepted!
I sent this as an email to the class. Thought I'd put it up here too:
Greetings all,
I did some investigating about the claim that the
bookstores are out of "The Origins of the Modern
World" book. Here's the skinny: Lieberman's on Main
street is out of it; however they will have 6 copies
in on Tuesday (hopefully). The UD bookstore in Perkins
Hall still has 9 copies on the shelf; so rush there
today or tomorrow and grab one. The UD bookstore is
still waiting to get copies of "The Lexus & the Olive
Tree," however Lieberman's has a lot of copies (and
you may also order it through amazon or half.com since
we will not be reading it until November). I have no
idea what Rainbow Books has or doesn't have, as I
didn't look.
I forgot to mention this when we reviewed the
syllabus, but I would like to fly through the "Origins
of the Modern World" book in the next few weeks. You
will notice that I have us listed as reading the first
67 pages for next week. My suggestion to you is to
bang it out this weekend. It'll make the lectures much
more clear for you. It's not a complicated read, so if
you're an average reader like me it should take
roughly 3 hours (read half Saturday and the rest on
Sunday so you can be free of IR work on Labor Day).
Lastly, feel free to start blogging! Some people have
already put up a few posts.
http://posc240.blogspot.com
Have a nice weekend and Labor Day!
-ng-
Hi my name is Andrew Unthank i am a second year student here at Delaware. I am currently on the Men's Varsity Lacrosse team here. Currently Undecided on a major, but i am leaning towards History or Political Science. I chose this class because i find International Relations a very interesting subject and want to learn about and possible take a career in it. Today in class i liked the maps that were showed i thought that was pretty cool. Well i will see you guys in class.
-Andrew Unthank
Hey hey
I'm a transfer from Washington College, and I am still adjusting to the large class sizes as well...all of my classes there had 20-30 people tops; so being in a room with 90+ people is new to me, though I am still glad to see class participation is big (I'm pretty opinionated about a lot of things going on in the world, so I like to talk about them). But yea, see everyone in class.
-nick sarlo
Hey my name is Elizabeth Lodge, I am a freshman and throw the Javelin here. Thus far I think this class is a interesting and is going to be even more so as we continue. As you guys said i am coming from high school where classes were a lot smaller so this is somewhat nerve racking speaking up in a class so large, but i liked the maps as well i thought it was an interesting prespective on the world. see you weds.
---Elizabeth Lodge
Hi, I am a freshman and I'm an undecided major. I agree with the comment above me. I really enjoy this class and find it very interesting especially the maps at the end of class on Thursday if I could change something it would be to slow down a little bit with the reading, but other than that i can't really complain. Compared to high school classes the college atmosphere has been overwhelming, but I'm sure it just takes some getting use to.
-Brittany Monteiro
my name is Corey Wall. im a freshman ....i wasn't too excited about being in international relations but i'm glad i took it because i find it pretty interesting and definitely a lot better than i thought it would be.
elizabeth, i run the 400 & 800 in track so im sure i will be seeing you a lot in the spring.
those maps on friday were really cool. i was kind of mad it was moving so fast i wish we had more time to look at them
corey wall
Hi, My name is Kristin Iorii I am a second year student. My major is Business with a minor in Spanish. I like discussing other countries in class and learning more about them since I love to travel. I have been to a lot of countries over in Europe and I can see the differences between there way of life and ours and this class will help me get a better understanding of those differences.
Kristin Iorii
Hey my name is Eric Goodman and I am from Richmond, Virginia. Currently I plan on maojoring in finance, but I also intend on minoring in political science and possibly changing my intended major to political science if my interest on the subject grows. The reason I took this class is because the past two summers I have worked on Capitol Hill as a Page for the U.S. House of Representatives and as an intern for Congressman Eric Cantor. So far I think the class is interesting and I hope we begin to have more class discussions on current issues throughout the world.
- Eric Goodman
After taking notes on the discussion from Monday's class (Nation State & Territorial Sovereignty), I noted parallels from a previous discussion on systems and societies.
You could link a state to a system and a nation to a society. The idea of International Society is similar to Territorial Sovereignty, where we used similar arguments that help regulate conduct.
Examples of a state, that came from class, are a bureaucracy, security, and affiliation that are similar to a system where you have examples like government, order, and bringing together. A state, similar to a system, needs interaction, in order to work.
Examples for a nation applied to things such as shared culture, unity, religion, and beliefs which are very similar to a society's examples such as similar ideals, social expectations, and cooperation.
For Territorial Sovereignty, we discussed an internal hierarchy and external autonomy, which is like the organizations that help constitute the argument for an international society such as trade (WTO), diplomacy (UN), and war (NATO).
One could argue that a state is merely another name for a system, nation is a society, and an territorial sovereignty is an international society. Based on the examples given in class and the broader definitions, it seems that this is plausible. Especially in the case of an international society, this would shed more light on the issue by using territorial sovereignty as a qualifier. We can go from arguing its existence regarding organizations which advocate for it to concretely stating that the recognition of territories is a mutual, agreed upon, universal principle.
It begs the question, is territorial sovereignty a solid argument to contend that an international society exists?
Hello class. I had a question. I am trying to print out the slides for class but am having a hard time getting them to print out like all of my other classes power points. The only way I can make it work is by copying and pasteing them into word ( which is a very time consuming process). I was wondering if anyone knew the trick to making this a less painfull process. I have never taken a IR class before but find it interesting to think about the world in a new way. I enjoy the movies that are showen in class and feel the internet is a good tool to teach students. I am a senior political science major and played varsity soccer here my first two years (until i realised i would be on the vanwilder plan if i continued to play). Just wanted to say hello and ask about my power point problems. See you all tomorrow.
Drew Majerick
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