Excessive absences will be penalized by reduction of final grade. Class discussions and lectures give you the chance to try out ideas, learn from each other and clarify questions you may have. Learning is a cooperative activity and, irrespective of any intervention on my part, those who do well in this class are invariably those with the best attendance record. I will provide an outline of the central points to be covered during the lecture and a short summary at the end. Participation is, therefore, a vital component of this class.
Every student is required to take both of the exams .
There are 10 exercises in the Le Roy text which ask you to manipulate datasets and draw inferences from them. We will work through several of these in class and then these exercises will be used as weekly homework projects. Domestic Responses to Global Challenges. Concepts and Issues in Comparative Politics . Changing the rules.