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Dear Political Science and International Studies
majors,
As part of their general education
requirements, all students are required to complete a SAGES
departmental seminar. Although there is no rule that says the
departmental seminar must be taken in a field in which the student
is majoring, most students do so. Students who major in
International Studies usually do the departmental seminar in some
related field.
Because departmental seminars should be taken
before senior projects, juniors especially should be planning to
complete the departmental seminar this Spring – assuming they did
not do so already. Students on Junior Year Abroad should plan
to take the departmental seminar in the Fall of 2011, upon their
return.
As with other SAGES seminars, each
departmental seminar is limited to 17 students, should emphasize
discussion, and should also emphasize writing. A departmental
seminar in particular should emphasize disciplinary writing – some
aspect of written communication that is common within that
particular major. Because the SAGES capstone requires an oral
presentation, oral presentations are also encouraged within
departmental seminars.
Courses Being Offered
We are offering THREE departmental seminars for
the Spring of 2010. Course descriptions can be found at
http://politicalscience.case.edu/coursedescrip.htm.
The three seminars are:
POSC 358, Political Strategy, with Professor
Buchler. Tues/Thurs 1:15 – 2:30.
POSC 370E, How Fragile is China? Issues
Determining Its Future, with Professor Schroeder. MWF 3:00 –
3:50
POSC 380, The State and War in the Middle East,
with Professor Moore. Tues/Thurs 2:45-4:00.
Permit Process
Because departmental seminars are limited in
size yet also a requirement, the department wants to make sure that
any student who requires a departmental seminar can get into one.
That means that juniors should have first shot at registering for
these three courses for the Spring. Therefore, we have set up
a temporary permit system. For the first two weeks of
registration, so from November 9 through November 22, instructors
will be required to issue a permit for students to register for POSC
358, POSC 370E, or POSC 380. So you will need to make a permit
request through the SIS system. As of November 23, we plan to
remove the permit requirement, and allow anyone to register for each
of those courses.
We will be quite surprised if any of the
courses fill during the permit period, but we do want to be sure
that students who most need a departmental seminar can get the one
they want. We apologize for any inconvenience to students who
will need to wait until November 23.
Best regards,
Joe White
November 6, 2009.
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