Each participant will choose a country and carry out a series of research tasks on that country over the quarter, producing research memoranda and a final short analytical memo. This will give you experience working with real-world data and applying the ideas learned in the course. You will leave the course not just with theoretical knowledge, but with practice in investigating specific questions related to the international economy, and in communicating the results of your work. Participation will be assessed mainly on in-class group work on the days the memos are due, and group activities in our last three class meetings. Please do not tell me about malfunctioning disks, printers, and so forth.
All assignments are due in class.
The normal and most secure means of submitting work is on paper, delivered into my hands in the class when the assignment is due. Normally, graded assignments will be returned a week after they are turned in. There is no reason to tell me if you are going to miss class. However if a serious illness or personal emergency is going to affect course work over a week or more, please tell me so we can plan how to get you back on track as quickly as possible. Our scheduled classes are times for work.