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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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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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