CIGP: Order of Presentations, Academic Seminar

On these dates, you will have to make a 3-5 minute presentation about the argument you're making in your Final Project. You will be graded when you participate in other people's presentations and restructure at least one of their arguments with your own suggestions. If you don't participate in this way at least once per day, you will get a zero that day. This will apply for the three days of the seminar.

Academic Seminar	Order of Presentations
April 26, 2016.	Fernanda Aura Jessica Karime
April 27, 2016.	Samantha Laura Tayra Diana
April 28, 2016.	Leticia Karen Mariana Paulina

Extra Points: Book Reports

As you may know from reading the syllabus, you can get 5 extra points in your final grade if you write book reports about "Bound Together" by Nayan Chanda and "A Brief History of the Future" by Jacques Attali. Each one is worth 2.5 points.

The last day to upload them to Blackboard is May 4th, at 11:59 PM. They will be in the "Assignments" tab. E-mailed book reports won't count towards the final grade.

Change: Essay 8 is now for April 7th

The due date for your homework about the movies "Black Hawk Down", "Desert Flower", and "Captain Phillips" was changed to April 7th, which is Thursday next week. This means it will count for your final grade, not for your second partial grade.

You can see the instructions here.

CIGP: Causes of War (Unit 9, L5, March 31)

Recommended content:

1. "Long-term underlying causes of war" by GCSE Bitesize

2. "Why Wars Happen" by The Economist

3. "War & Strife", chapter summary from "Essentials of International Relations" by Karen Mingst

CIGP: Final Project topics

Student	Country	Topic
Aura	Singapore	Dengue (Health)
Diana	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Malaria (Health)
Fernanda	United Arab Emirates	Women's education (Gender, Society & Culture)
Jessica	El Salvador	Child soldiers (Security & Terrorism)
Karen	Japan	South China Sea dispute (Security & Terrorism)
Karime	Uzbekistan	Cotton Industry and Water (Environment, Economy, Security & Terrorism)
Laura	Portugal	Banking sector (Economy, Labor, Globalization)
Leticia	Laos	Drug trafficking (Economy, Security & Terrorism)
Mariana	Mongolia	Transgender rights (Society & Culture, Gender)
Paulina	Chad	Boko Haram (Politics, Security & Terrorism)
Samantha	Albania	Drug trafficking (Economy, Security & Terrorism)
Tayra	San Marino	Should San Marino join the European Union? (Politics, Economy)

This list is based on today's class discussion. If yours is blank, inaccurate or not specific enough, let me know what you would like it to say and I'll change it. The point of this is for the Data Bank to be more useful for everyone's projects and research. 

I strongly recommend that you take this chance for the entire group (and me) to help you with your research.