Administration Building Room 210. Using a topical, historical, and issue-oriented approach, this course introduces students to the basic factors of international affairs including diplomacy and international public policy issues such as health, education, business, and trade.
Emphasis is placed on analysis of major issues of current or recent historical interest.
A combination of lecture, discussion, and group projects is employed. Course Objectives 1. To present the basic concepts of international relations and theories of decision-making. To employ the approaches of international policy analysis to understand current and recent historical problems of international relations. This course is taught through lecture, discussion, student reports, projects and reading assigned texts.