Thursday, September 10, 2009

Welcome to your life in the International Political Economy

Greetings to all of you in Politics 381.

Today, we will begin some preliminary discussions of I.P.E., but much of the heavy lifting will wait until next week, after you have had a chance to do readings. Three items of interest today.

1. All of you should be creating your own blogs in the next few days. When you do so, I will place links to your blogs along the right-hand side of this page, replacing the links to blogs from previous iterations of the course.

You may create your own blog at the site of your choosing, so long as it is publicly/openly available without requiring registration or sign-in. Two easy options are:
Blogger
(which hosts this blog), and
WordPress

2. You must write a short (approx. 500 word) essay in no more than one hour by Monday morning. Please submit the essay via email to me and post your response to your blog. The question and template can be found here.

3. Please check in on this blog regularly for any updates, issues, and questions. You are encouraged to add your own links to your blog, and links to this page and your classmates' pages are logical choices.

I will leave my own commentary on I.P.E. until after you have submitted your responses, so we can initiate a discussion using your blogs (as well as this one) as a point of departure.

- jtd

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