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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & INTERNATIONAL POLITICS (Course number INAF 100-14) Classroom location: Intercultural Center (ICC) 214 Class day & time: Tuesday, 10:15am- 12:05pm Instructor: James Raymond Vreeland, Professor 2.0 WE ARE GLOBAL GEORGETOWN! 1

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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & INTERNATIONAL POLITICS (Course number INAF 100-14). Classroom location: Intercultural Center (ICC) 214 Class day & time: Tuesday, 10:15am-12:05pm Instructor: James Raymond Vreeland , Professor 2.0 WE ARE GLOBAL GEORGETOWN!. Honor. Complete the tutorial. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & INTERNATIONAL POLITICS(Course number INAF 100-14)

Classroom location: Intercultural Center (ICC) 214Class day & time: Tuesday, 10:15am-12:05pm

Instructor: James Raymond Vreeland, Professor 2.0

WE ARE GLOBAL GEORGETOWN!

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Honor

• Complete the tutorial

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Welcome to the Georgetown School of Foreign Service!

• Expectations?1. …

2. …

3. …

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My expectations

• Standards of Excellence

• Attendance, punctuality, preparation, participation, thoughtfulness, intellectual curiosity, …

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Why are you in college?

• Developing human capacities– Imagination– Reason– Language– Introspection– Morality/Ethics– Aesthetics– Sociability– Physicality

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Imagination

• Creative thinking

• Invention

• Synthesis

• Past (history)—Future (forecasting)

• Scientific insight

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Reason

• Problem-solving

• Critical thinking

• Logic/argumentation

• Calculation/computation

• Empiricism

• Analysis

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Language

• Listening

• Speaking

• Reading

• Writing

• Using metaphor

• Using rhetoric

• Using 2nd, 3rd languages?

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Introspection

• Self-awareness

• Escaping ego

• Gaining self-respect

• Seeing differences/commonalities

• Becoming thoughtful

• Acquiring virtues

• Exercising free will

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Morality/Ethics

• Moral deliberation

• Recognizing moral issues

• Acting on principle

• Guides of conduct

• Distinguishing among intellectual, social and moral virtues

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Aesthetics

• Observing closely

• Seeing relationships (form, pattern, harmony etc.)

• Pleasure in beauty

• Love of knowledge

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Sociability

• Developing empathy

• Valuing diversity

• Learning cooperation

• Knowing expectations

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Physicality

• Refining the use of senses

• Maintaining health, strength, alertness and stamina

• Understanding the relationship between mind and body

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This particular class is about research

• We can think about research as an ongoing global conversation

• Be sure to take the– tutorial on scholarly research and

academic integrity

• Be sure to familiarize yourself with Georgetown’s honor system

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Goals: Skills

• Learn the pain of writing

• Develop a research proposal

• Presentation skills – with time constraints

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Goals: Substance

• ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & INTERNATIONAL POLITICS

• Syllabus– Use it every time you study– http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/jrv24/INAF_100-14.html

• Why are we looking at projects that I have been involved with?– Intimate understanding of a research project

– A “tell all” class

– How an idea becomes a paper, becomes an article, becomes a book…

• Note that everything in your textbooks starts out as just an idea, then a paper…

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Activity

• Create a structure that will support the ball

• Materials: – Straws– Pins

• 20 minutes

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Activity lessons

• Start with a theory

– Collaboration!

– We must be comfortable sharing our ideas with each other – healthy debate & critiques are encouraged

– Question EVERYTHING…

• Test the theory

– There is no proof (or disproof) – only corroborating & refuting evidence

• Compete with other theories… & repeat

• The ongoing global conversation continues…18

For next week:

• You must read:– Vreeland, James Raymond. 2003. The IMF

and Economic Development. New York: Cambridge University Press. CHAPTER 1

– Be prepared to discuss the chapter in a group setting

• Come to class with a list of potential research questions for your project

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All research begins with a question

• Curiosity about the political & economic world around you is the main prerequisite for this class

• Think critically & ask questions

• And during class, always remember:– Those who ask questions are fools for five

minutes; those who do not ask questions remain fools forever.

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Thank youWE ARE GLOBAL GEORGETOWN!

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