Requirements and grading: Regular attendance and careful attention during lectures, including detailed note-taking. Regular attendance, careful attention, and active participation in your discussion section. This requires doing the readings and thinking about the assigned materials so that you are able to participate in the discussion. The discussion section TAs will be evaluating you in this regard. Your participation is worth 15 percent of your final grade. Your participation grade is based equally on attendance in section, participation in section, and the completion of five online exercises covering some of the historical background of each of our country cases. These exercises will become available approximately one week before we start covering a country case in class on the course’s Canvas website (). You may complete the exercises for full credit at any point prior to my first lecture on each country case. If you complete the exercise after the first lecture starts, you will only receive partial (50%) credit. For example, if you complete the exercise for the UK before 9:30am on October 31st, you will get full credit, and only partial credit after that date and time. Additional details are available on the course’s Canvas website. Two midterm exams, each worth 25 percent of your final grade. A comprehensive final exam, worth 35 percent of your grade. Required readings: O’Neil, Patrick H. 2015. Essentials of Comparative Politics, 5th edition. New York: W.W. Norton. ISBN 9780393938975. O’Neil, Patrick H. 2015. Cases in Comparative Politics, 5th edition. New York: W.W. Norton. ISBN 9780393937541. All other readings listed in this syllabus are also required and available on our Canvas course website. If you prefer hard copies, I suggest that you download all readings, put them on a flash drive, and take them to one of the local copy shops. For a reasonable price, they will print and bind the readings for you as you see fit. Course schedule September 7: Organization and Introduction: What is Comparative politics? No readings September 12, 14, 19: States, Nations, and Ideologies O’Neil, Essentials of Comparative Politics, chapters 2 and 3. Pietrucha, Mike. 2016. “Treating the Islamic State as a State,” War on the Rocks: Friedman, Uri. 2017. “What is a Populist? And Is Donald Trump one?” The Atlantic:
Requirements and grading: Regular attendance and careful attention during lectures, including detailed note-taking. Regular attendance, careful attention, and active participation in your discussion section. This requires doing the readings and thinking about the assigned materials so that you are able to participate in the discussion. The discussion section TAs will be evaluating you in this regard. Your participation is worth 15 percent of your final grade. Your participation grade is based equally on attendance in section, participation in section, and the completion of five online exercises covering some of the historical background of each of our country cases. These exercises will become available approximately one week before we start covering a country case in class on the course’s Canvas website (). You may complete the exercises for full credit at any point prior to my first lecture on each country case. If you complete the exercise after the first lecture starts, you will only receive partial (50%) credit. For example, if you complete the exercise for the UK before 9:30am on October 31st, you will get full credit, and only partial credit after that date and time. Additional details are available on the course’s Canvas website. Two midterm exams, each worth 25 percent of your final grade. A comprehensive final exam, worth 35 percent of your grade. Required readings: O’Neil, Patrick H. 2015. Essentials of Comparative Politics, 5th edition. New York: W.W. Norton. ISBN 9780393938975. O’Neil, Patrick H. 2015. Cases in Comparative Politics, 5th edition. New York: W.W. Norton. ISBN 9780393937541. All other readings listed in this syllabus are also required and available on our Canvas course website. If you prefer hard copies, I suggest that you download all readings, put them on a flash drive, and take them to one of the local copy shops. For a reasonable price, they will print and bind the readings for you as you see fit. Course schedule September 7: Organization and Introduction: What is Comparative politics? No readings September 12, 14, 19: States, Nations, and Ideologies O’Neil, Essentials of Comparative Politics, chapters 2 and 3. Pietrucha, Mike. 2016. “Treating the Islamic State as a State,” War on the Rocks: Friedman, Uri. 2017. “What is a Populist? And Is Donald Trump one?” The Atlantic:
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