I am working on the history side and looking for appropriate texts, films, and teaching strategies. I am also pretty new to team-teaching so advice on that end is also good. My part would focus on global women's history in the 20th century and that its intersections with int'l relations would be in areas like the political and economic power, family planning and health, gender roles, the whole globalizing process going on. I'd like to find out if has been done elsewhere and if so, how successfully. And I have a nice syllabus for an int'l development course, organized by another prof if you are interested.
Feedback always welcome.
The first is that both professors ought to be involved in ALL class sessions. Although one of us was primarily responsible for the material on any given day, the other functioned as critic, debater, solicitor, and general gadfly to stimulate the class discussion. The second reinforces the first. The class must be designed to maximize student participation. We made groups of students responsible for becoming the experts on certain readings or parts of the course, and also for presenting the material to the class.