LIB 110: Global Politics
Dr. Bojana Blagojevich and Dr. Justin Rogers-Cooper
T: 3.25-4.25 pm
Cluster Description
See ENG 101/103 syllabus.
Course Description
The LIB 110 cluster “hour” is designated by the college as period to make connections across the cluster courses. Students will use the cluster hour to ask questions across disciplines, to practice thinking within and across the specific perspectives of those disciplines, and to complete one “integrated activity” that the college requires to show very practically that students understand the themes in the cluster.
Course Goals
Students will practice making connections within the cluster using in-class writing and in-class discussion. They will also plan, coordinate, produce and reflect on an “integrated activity.”
Integrated Activity
Students will produce two to three minute videos in small groups. These videos will document and explain how different ideas from each class combine together and help explain global politics. Students will be responsible for brainstorming, organizing, planning, executing, and reflecting on this video.
Course Grade
80% of the course grade will come from the video project.
20% of the course grade will come from in-class writing and discussion about the cluster classes. NOTE: Some of this writing will be written for revision on the course blogs.
Tentative Course Schedule
3-6: Course Introduction; Imagining Connections writing assignment; expectations
3-13: Team Formation; Brainstorming ideas
3-19: Sketching timetables, roles, needs; connecting plans to course themes
3-26: Presentation of video proposal to class
4-3: Location scouting; setting up interviews; creating scripts
4-17: Reserving STMs and equipment; work-shopping scripts
4-24: MIDTERM connections: connecting the cluster to projects
5-1: script final drafts due to Professor
5-8: rehearsals
5-15: Filming
5-22: Filming
5-29: cluster reflection: what have you found out?
