“International politics, like
all politics, is a struggle for power” ― Hans J. Morgenthau
“Today the real test of power is
not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it” ― Anne O’Hare McCormick
global issues
& international Affairs
IAFS 1000/Spring 2020
Instructor:
Dr. Gregory D. Young
Office:
Ketchum Hall Room 212
E-mail:
gyoung@colorado.edu (primary contact method)
Professor’s
Office Hours: Tuesdays & Thursdays 2:00-3:00 or Wednesdays by appointment
Lecture Times:
Tuesday/Thursdays 12:30-1:45pm in Hale 270
Direct
link to this syllabus: http://spot.colorado.edu/~gyoung/home/IA
1000/1000_syl.htm
Course Links
Weekly Thought Paper Questions
Potential Midterm Exam Questions and Terms
Potential Final Exam Questions and Terms
Recitation Sections/TA/Locations
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IAFS 1000-101 |
Max Chernoff |
W 5:00PM - 5:50PM, CLUB 4 |
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IAFS 1000-102 |
Diana Dorman |
T 4:00 - 4:50PM, ECKL E1B50 |
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IAFS 1000-103 |
Max Chernoff |
W 9:00AM - 9:50AM, HALE 240 |
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IAFS 1000-104 |
Diana Dorman |
TH 3:30PM - 4:20PM, CASE E250 |
Teaching
Assistants/Email/Office/Office Hours/Syllabus Link
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TA/Sections |
Office Hours/Office |
Email Link |
Syllabus Link |
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Max Chernoff/101 & 103 |
Tuesday, 2pm-3pm, and Wednesday 10am-11am/ Ketchum 411 |
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Diana
Dorman/102 & 104 |
Wed 10:15-12:15/
CLUB A4 |
Course Objectives and Description
This course is the introduction for the inter-disciplinary CU
major which encompasses political science, anthropology, geography, economics,
and history. The major can also include a foreign language component. As an
International Affairs major you will begin your studies with a survey of the
most compelling global issues of the day and then go on to detailed analysis of
international relations and economics. Follow-on courses also focus on problems
of international development, the environment, international economic relations
and United States foreign policy. Since this is an interdisciplinary course, it
is taught by faculty from each of the participating departments and each brings
the biases and paradigms of their own backgrounds to the course. This semester
the course is taught by a political scientist and therefore, global governance,
international relations and their relationship to current world issues will be
the primary focus. We will certainly touch upon geography, international
political economy and the history of the issues with which we will deal.
Course Requirements
Surgeon General’s Warning
Despite the fact that this course bears a 1000 number designation, it is
a four-credit course with a substantial workload. In addition to the midterm
and final exams, this course requires a substantial amount of writing. Please
familiarize yourself with the course requirements. If you are not sure now that
you will be able to commit the necessary time and effort to complete the
required work, you should consider dropping the course.
Readings, Attendance and
Class Participation
It is essential that students attend every class on
time. Regular attendance and active participation in any class discussion will
enhance your understanding of the course material and almost certainly improve
your performance on the mid-term and final exams, which are together worth 50%
of the course grade. Attendance at lecture and recitation is also a large
portion of your 20% Recitation grade. Notifying your TA by email prior to class
will constitute an excused absence. In this semester, the required readings
range from 60 to 100 pages per week, as set out in the course schedule. Your
knowledge and understanding of the required readings will be tested in the
mid-term and final exams. Students should come to class having already
completed (and thought carefully about) the assigned reading for each class
period.
Mid-Term and Final Exams
The mid-term exam will
be held on Tuesday, March 2nd the usual class meeting time
and place. The final exam will be on Saturday,
May 2nd from 1:30-4:00pm in the regular lecture room. The final
exam will be comprehensive, but will still focus primarily on the materiel
after the midterm. Students must write the final exam in order to pass the
course. Blue books should be purchased by each student and brought in the class
period prior to the midterm and final; 8.5x11 Blue books are preferred. Do not
put your name on your Blue book. Make-up exams will not be given unless the
instructor has been notified in advance or a doctor’s note is provided. There
will be a geographic component on both the midterm and final exams related to
topics we have discussed in class.
Recitation
The teaching assistant’s assessment of each
student’s attendance and performance in recitation will count 20% of the final
course grade. Recitation syllabi are linked to this syllabus above. You will be
expected to participate and to demonstrate familiarity with the contents of the
required readings in your recitation discussions.
Current
Events
Several students
will present a current event orally in recitation each week. The presentation
details will be discussed in detail in recitations. The source should be from a
respected news source, be less than one week old and pertain in some way to
topical global issues. Each student should try to relate the article to some
element of what we have been discussing in class. News reports on the Internet
are also acceptable sources. The current event presentation will be part of
your 20% recitation grade.
Weekly Thought Papers
At the end of lecture
each Thursday, a thought question will be posed to the class and posted on the
course web site. The question will relate to either the topic in Tuesday’s or
Thursday’s lecture. Students will write a two-page, single-spaced
(Approximately 900-1000 words) response to the question to turn in
electronically on CANVAS the following week to their TA by 5pm Tuesday. Please include a word count on the first
page. These papers should be properly documented and footnoted using the
course readings. Papers will be graded 50% on content and 50% on grammar,
punctuation and spelling. Late Papers will not be accepted unless prior
arrangements have been made. The electronic copies will be checked for
plagiarism. There will be ten questions posted. Each student must answer at least FOUR of them (including the CWA paper).
Students completing fewer than four will have zero’s averaged in with their
grades on the completed papers. Those students completing more than four will
only have the four best grades included. These thought papers account for 30%
of your final course grade.
Conference on World
Affairs
Also included in the participation grade will be
the required attendance at one or more sessions of the Conference on World Affairs (CWA) from 8-13 April
2019. Each student will turn in a one-page synopsis of the session attended the
following week, which will meet the requirement for that week’s thought paper.
You get one day off from lecture (Thursday, April 11to compensate for attendance
at the CWA. Which of
the panels at the conference meet this requirement will be discussed in class.
grading Criteria
Mid-term exam 25%
4 Thought Papers
(Includes CWA ppr) 30%
Final exam 25%
Recitation (Includes
Attendance) 20%
Total 100%
Final Course Grades will be curved unless a straight
90/80/70/60 etc… proves more beneficial to the students (higher overall grade
average). If curved, the mean overall average will become the highest C grade,
and two standard deviations below the mean will be necessary to fail the
course. One standard deviation about the mean becomes the criteria for an A
grade. The grading policy will be explained in detail on the first day of
class.
Required Readings
There are no
textbooks to purchase for this class. All course
readings (and World Atlas) delineated in the course schedule are available at
the following online site to which all students will subscribe: http://www.aatw.me. This site, America and the World (AATW), provides
both distribution and reference for this course, but also copyright payment for
some of the articles you will read. Access to this website will be
purchased for $19.95. Access will be explained in detail in class. The readings
for this course are interdisciplinary, including works from political science,
history, econ and geography. All of the readings are required. All readings will be linked to this syllabus here: Course Readings
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IAFS 1000 – Introduction to
International Affairs Course Schedule Spring 2019 |
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Day/Date |
Topic |
Assigned Reading |
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Tues 14 Jan |
Course Introduction & Administration |
None |
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Thurs 16 Jan |
Introduction to International Relations |
·
Van Belle &
Mash A Novel Approach to Politics,
Ch. 12 |
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Tues 21 Jan |
U.S. Foreign Policy: Not
leading the world anymore? |
·
Fareed Zakaria
“What Bush Got Right” Newsweek, Mar. 14, 2005 ·
Bruce Russett,
Grasping the Democratic Peace: Principles for Peace in the Post-Cold War
World, 1997 (pp. 3-42) ·
Cooper &
Malcomson, “Welcome to my World, Barack”, Sunday Magazine New York Times, 16 Nov 08 ·
James Mann
(2012), The Obamians: The Struggle
inside the White House to Redefine American Power. New York: Viking
(Excerpts) ·
Martin S. Indyk
et al, "Scoring Obama's Foreign Policy" (Foreign Affairs May/Jun
2012) |
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Thurs 23 Jan |
The GWOT - Wars in Iraq & Afghanistan: I thought
we were done! Thought Paper #1 Assigned |
·
Global Issues Afghanistan On the Brink 2010 ·
The Economist,
“The Next Surge”, 20 Dec 09 ·
The Economist,
“After smart weapons, smart soldiers”, 25 Oct 07 ·
Filkins, “Right
at the Edge”, Sunday Magazine New York
Times, 7 Sep 08 ·
Rubin, “In the
Land of the Taliban”, Sunday Magazine New
York Times, 22 Oct 06 ·
Gordon,
“Strategy Shift for Afghan War poses stiff Challenge for Obama”, New York Times, Tues 2 Dec 08 ·
Stewart, “The
‘Good War’ isn't worth Fighting”, New
York Times, Sun 23 Nov 08 ·
Rumsfeld, “One
Surge does not fit all”, New York
Times, Sun 23 Nov 08 ·
Bacevich,
“Petraeus Doctrine”, The Atlantic,
Oct 08 Johnson & Mason, “All
counterinsurgency is local”, The
Atlantic, Oct 08 |
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Tues 28 Jan |
Radical Islamic Terror Thought Paper #1 Due |
·
Bergen &
Reynolds “Blowback Revisited” Foreign
Affairs , November/December 2005 ·
Christian Caryl
“Why They Do It” The New York Times Review of Books, Sept 22, 2005 ·
Osama
bin Laden, "Speech to the American People" ·
Robert
Kaplan et al, Osama’s Dead, But How Much Does It Matter?” Foreign Policy, May 2, 2011 ·
"Al Qaeda
is down, but far from out: jihadist Terrorism" (The Economist April 21,
2012) |
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Thurs 30 Feb |
Drones: The GWOT Silent
Killer Thought Paper #2 Assigned |
·
Cronin, “Why
Drones Fail: When Tactics Drive Strategy”, Foreign Affairs, Jul/Aug 2013 ·
Byman, “Why
Drones Work: The Case for Washington’s Weapon of Choice”, Foreign Affairs, Jul/Aug 2013 |
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Tues 4 Feb |
The Arab Spring?: Tunisia,
Egypt & Libya Excerpts from the movie:
“The Square” Thought Paper #2
Due |
·
The Telegraph, “Arab Spring:Timeline of the African and Middle East rebellions”,
October 21, 2011 ·
Lisa Anderson,
“Demystifying the Arab Spring”, Foreign
Affairs, May/June 2011 · The
Economist, “Everywhere
on the rise, The success of
Egypt’s Islamists marks a trend throughout the region.” December 10, 2011 |
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Thurs 6 Feb |
The Arab Spring?: Syria Thought Paper #3
Assigned |
·
The Economist, “Gaining ground: Syria’s opposition, though fractious, is
making headway against the regime.” December 17, 2011 ·
Foreign
Policy, “ The Syrian Stalemate” ·
Foreign
Policy, “ The General’s Gambit” ·
Foreign
Policy, “Holding
Civil Society Workshops while Syria Burns”, 2012 ·
Washington
Post, “A War chest for Syria's
Rebels” ·
Washington
Post, How Obama Bungled the Syrian
Revolution” ·
The Economist, “Gaining ground: Syria’s opposition, though fractious, is
making headway against the regime.” December 17, 2011 |
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Tues 11 Feb |
The Rise & Fall of
ISIS, ISIL or Daesh, Syria and the Kurds Thought Paper #3 Due |
·
The
Economist - The Islamic State of
Iraq & Greater Syria ·
The
Economist - The War Against Islamic
State ·
Foreign
Affairs - The Myth of the Caliphate ·
Orient Advisory Group, “Egypt’s ABM
Declares Allegiance to ISIL, while Al Nusra Joins
ISIL Alliance in Syria” ·
Arango “Backed by U.S.
Airstrikes, Kurds Reverse an ISIS Gain” New
York Times, Dec, 18, 2014 |
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Thurs 13 Feb |
Nuclear Proliferation/WMDs:
Good Deal with Iran? Thought Paper #4
Assigned |
·
Jeffrey
Goldberg, “The Point of No Return” The
Atlantic, September, 2010 ·
The Economist,
“Ignore us at your peril” Nov 27th 2010 ·
Seymour Hirsch
“The Deal” The New Yorker, Mar. 8, 2004. ·
Kenneth M.
Pollack “Spies. Lies and Weapons: What Went Wrong. The Atlantic,
Jan/Feb 2004 ·
William Langewiesche, “The Wrath of Khan”, The Atlantic, Jan/Feb 2005 ·
The Economist,
“What to do with a vision of zero”, 15 Nov 08 ·
Broad, “Hidden
Travels of the Bomb”, New York Times,
Tues 9 Dec 08 ·
Global
Issues 2010: U.S. Policy on Iran ·
Cowell
& Gladstone,“Iran Reports Killing of Nuclear Scientist in ‘Terrorist’
Blast”. New York Times, 12 Jan 12 ·
Matthew
Kroenig, "Time To Attack Iran" Foreign
Affairs Jan/Feb 2012 Colin H. Kahl, "Not
Time to Attack Iran" Foreign
Affairs Mar/Apr 2012 |
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Tues 18 Feb |
Kim Jong Un and North
Korean nuclear weapons Thought Paper #4
Due |
·
Sanger
& Broad, “How U.S. Intelligence
Agencies Underestimated North Korea” New York Times. 6 Jan 18 ·
Broad, “A Giant
Nuclear Blast, but a Hydrogen Bomb? Too Soon to Say” New York Times. 3 Sep 17 ·
Broad, Grondahl,
Keller, Parlapiano, Singhvi & Yourish, “This Missile Could Reach
California. But Can North Korea Use It With a Nuclear Weapon? New York
Times. 3 Sep 17 ·
Rich
& Sanger, “Motives of North Korea’s
Leader Baffle Americans and Allies”, New York Times.
3 Sep 17 ·
Fisher, Seven
Critical Truths About North Korea” New York Times.
29 Nov 17 ·
Sanger,
“Washington Eyes a Cold War Strategy Against North Korea”, New York Times. 29 Nov 17 |
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Thurs 20 Feb |
The Pentagon Papers, North Korean Hacking, Wikileaks, &
Snowden: The New WMD: Privacy in a World of Big Data Thought Paper #5
Assigned |
·
Washington Post - Is Wikileaks the Pentagon Papers Part Two? ·
Wall Street Journal - Why Wikileaks is Unlike the Pentagon Papers ·
Democracy Now!
- New Pentagon Papers ·
New York Times - Cables From American Diplomats Portray U.S. Ambivalence on Tunisia ·
New York Times - Burglars Who Took on FBI Abandon Shadows ·
Time -
Edward Snowden, the Dark Prophet ·
New York Times - British Intelligence Chief Says Leaks by Snowden Hurt Security New York Times - Obama to Place Some Restraints on Surveillance |
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Tues 25 Feb |
Middle East Peace: The
Arab/Israeli Thought Paper #5
Due |
·
Hussein McMahon
Correspondence ·
Sykes-Picot
Agreement ·
Balfour
Declaration ·
T.E.
Lawrence, "Blowing up a Train" · Oslo Declaration of Principles |
|
Thurs 27 Feb |
Middle East Peace: The
Israeli Palestinian Dispute (Part II) |
·
Robert Baer
“The Fall of the House of Saud” The Atlantic, May 03 ·
David Samuels
“Grand Illusions” The Atlantic,
June 07 ·
Thomas Friedman,
From Beirut to Jerusalem (Excerpts) ·
The Economist,
“Pummelling the Palestinians”, 3 Jan 09 ·
The Economist,
“What can we do”, 3 Jan 09 ·
The Economist,
“Proportional to what?” 3 Jan 09 ·
Hammer,
“Getting away with murder”, The
Atlantic, Dec 08 Goldberg, “Unforgiven”, The Atlantic, May 08 |
|
Tues 3 Mar |
Midterm Exam No Thought Paper Due |
Review |
|
Thurs 5 Mar |
The European Union:
Expansion or BREXIT Thought Paper #6
Assigned |
·
New York Times, “Should the EU Hang Together?” ·
The Economist,
“Fit at 50” Special Report ·
The
Economist “The Politics of Anger” 2
Jul 16 pp. 9-10. |
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Tues 10 Mar |
Thought Paper #6
Due Turkey, Cyprus and the EU Go over midterm exam |
·
The Economist,
“Anchors Away: A survey of Turkey” ·
Gregory D.
Young, “Cyprus, The Struggle for Independence” |
|
Thurs 12 Mar |
Turkey - NATO Democratic
Ally or Authoritarian Islamist Regime: 2016 Cour D’etat Thought Paper #7
Assigned |
·
The Economist, "Erdogan's Revenge" July 23, 2016
pp. 7-8 ·
The Economist, " After the Coup, the Counter-coup"
July 23, 2016, pp. 14-15 ·
Arango & Yeginsu, "Turks Agree on One Thing: The
US was behind the Failed Revolt." New York Times, August 3, 2016,
p. A6 |
|
Tues 17 Mar |
International Political
Economy: Globalization Thought Paper #7
Due |
·
Thomas Freidman
“It’s a Flat World After All” ·
Richard Florida
“ The World is Spiky” ·
Daniel Drezner
“Globalizers of the World, Unite!” Washington
Quarterly (Winter 1998) ·
Stiglitz,
Joseph (2002) “Globalism’s Discontents” from Chap. 3, Governing the Economy
in Readings in Kesselman, Mark & Krieger, Joel, Comparative Politics: Political Challenges and Changing Agendas.
Houghton Mifflin Co ·
Paul Krugman
“For Richer” New York Times
Magazine, Oct 20, 2003 Thomas M. Callaghy
“Globalization and Marginalization: Debt and the International Underclass.” Current
History, November 1997 |
|
Thurs 19 Mar |
International Political Economy: The Global Debt
Crisis |
·
The Economist, “Staring into the Abyss: Special Report: Nov 12, 2011 (7 parts) ·
Vivian A.
Schmidt, “Saving the Euro will mean worse trouble for Europe.” Foreign Affairs, November 28,
2011 Daley, “Greek Patience With
Austerity Nears Its Limit.” New York
Times, Dec 29, 2014 |
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Tues 24 Mar |
Spring Break |
·
No
Class |
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Thurs 26 Mar |
Spring Break |
·
No
Class |
|
Tues 30 Mar |
Poverty and Global Development No Thought Paper
Due |
·
United Nations,
Millennium Development Report (Read the two summaries, skim the rest) ·
Jeffrey Sachs
“The End of Poverty” Time March 6, 2005 ·
Amartya Sen
(1999), Development as Freedom;
Chapter 4, “Poverty as Capability Deprivation” pp. 87- 110. Oxford University
Press Thomas J. Bollyky,
"Developing Symptoms" (Foreign Affairs May/June 2012) |
|
Thurs 2 Apr |
International Political
Economy: The Immigration Crisis Thought Paper #8
Assigned |
·
Douglas Massey -
Theories of Migration ·
Chris Rudolph -
National Security & Immigration ·
Trafficking in
Persons Report Luke Mogelson - The Dream
Boat |
|
Tues 7 Apr |
The UN and Peacekeeping Thought Paper #8
Due Conference on World Affairs
– Attend at least one panel related to international affairs. |
·
Roland Paris
“Peacebuilding and the Limits of Liberal Internationalism” International
Security (Fall, 1997) ·
Paul Diehl
“Peacekeeping: How Should We Measure Success?” Mershon International
Studies Review, Oct 1994 ·
James Traub,
“Never Again, No Longer” New York Times Magazine, July 18, 2004 ·
The Economist,
“A chance for a safer world & Mission Impossible”, 6 Jan 07 The Economist, "First
do no harm: the UN in Haiti" , April 28, 2012 |
|
Thurs 9 Apr |
Conference on World Affairs Compensation
Day Thought Paper #9 (CWA) Assigned |
·
No
Class |
|
Tues 14 Apr |
Resurgent Russia I Thought Paper #9 (CWA) Due |
·
The Economist,
“Russia Resurgent”, 16 Aug 08 ·
The Economist,
“A Scripted War”, 16 Aug 08 ·
Ellen Barry, “Russian
President sends Obama warnings on European Missile system”, New York Times, Thurs, 6 Nov 08 ·
The
Economist, "In Search of
Detente, Once Again" ·
The
Economist, “Frost at the Core”, Dec 11th, 2010 Nicholas Eberstadt,
"The Dying Bear" (Foreign Affairs Nov/Dec 2011) |
|
Thurs 16 Apr |
Resurgent Russia II –
Ukraine Revolution/Crimea Annexation Thought Paper #10
Assigned |
·
Foreign
Affairs - Drop Your Weapons ·
Foreign
Affairs - Russia's Latest Land Grab ·
Foreign
Affairs - Why the Ukraine Crisis Is
the West's Fault Foreign Affairs - Ukraine's Orange Revolution |
|
Tues 21 Apr |
China: Developing Country
or Global Force? The impact of Hong Kong on China Thought Paper #10 Due |
·
The Economist, “The second Long March”, 13 Dec
08 ·
Fallows, “Be Nice to Countries that Lend you Money”, The Atlantic, Dec 08 ·
Fallows, “Their own worst enemy”, The
Atlantic, Nov 08 Articles to be added |
|
Thurs 23 Apr |
The world’s response to
climate change and its impact on poverty, conflict and disease |
Articles to be added |
|
Tues 28 Apr |
Iran, the JCPOA and Weapons of Mass Destruction |
Articles to be added |
|
Thurs 30 Apr |
Catch up day, review for
final examination |
None |
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Sat 2 May |
Final Examination (1:30-4:00pm) |
Study, Study and Study |
ADMINISTRATIVE
INFORMATION:
CELLULAR TELEPHONE/LAPTOP COMPUTER POLICY
Needless to say, all cellular phones must be turned off and put away at
the beginning of each class meeting. Classes failing to comply will be issued a
stern warning on the first occasion of a phone ringing during class time. The
entire class will have a pop quiz over the previous reading
assignments/lectures on the second and subsequent occurrences. Phones will not
be out on desks or used during any quiz or examination.
Laptop
computers have been allowed in my classes for the 20 years that I have been
teaching at CU, beginning this semester however they will not be allowed to be
out or open in class. I still believe that they can assist learning in the
classroom, but significant new research shows that taking notes by hand
increases learning. Also, a new study shows that laptops open and displaying
non-class materiel are distracting not only to the user, but the students in
view of the laptop and inhibit learning. Students can apply for exceptions for
reason of disability or a proven track record of in class note-taking on the
computer. Here is a link to an article about laptop impact on education: “Laptops Are Great. But Not During a Lecture
or a Meeting”, New York Times Op Ed,
By SUSAN DYNARSKI NOV. 22, 2017
Boulder Provost’s Disability Task Force recommended
syllabus statement:
If you qualify for accommodations because of a
disability, please submit your accommodation letter from Disability Services to
your faculty member in a timely manner so that your needs can be
addressed. Disability Services
determines accommodations based on documented disabilities in the academic
environment. Information on requesting
accommodations is located on the Disability Services
website
(www.colorado.edu/disabilityservices/students).
Contact Disability Services at 303-492-8671 or dsinfo@colorado.edu for further
assistance. If you have a temporary
medical condition or injury, see Temporary Medical
Conditions under the
Students tab on the Disability Services website and discuss your needs with
your professor.
Recommended
religious observances syllabus statement:
Campus policy regarding religious observances requires
that faculty make every effort to deal reasonably and fairly with all students
who, because of religious obligations, have conflicts with scheduled exams,
assignments or required attendance. In
this class, as
stated earlier in this syllabus for normal class days, students need only email
their instructor/TA in advance to procure an excused absence. However, for
examinations, in-class presentations or debates, students must arrange for a
makeup in advance of their absence.
Office of Institutional Equity and
Compliance (OIEC) recommended syllabus statement:
The University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder) is
committed to maintaining a positive learning, working, and living environment.
CU Boulder will not tolerate acts of sexual misconduct, discrimination,
harassment or related retaliation against or by any employee or student.
CU’s Sexual Misconduct Policy prohibits sexual assault, sexual
exploitation, sexual harassment, intimate partner abuse (dating or domestic
violence), stalking or related retaliation. CU Boulder’s Discrimination and
Harassment Policy prohibits discrimination, harassment or related retaliation
based on race, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy, age, disability, creed,
religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran
status, political affiliation or political philosophy. Individuals who believe
they have been subject to misconduct under either policy should contact the
Office of Institutional Equity and Compliance (OIEC) at 303-492-2127.
Information about the OIEC, the above referenced policies, and the campus
resources available to assist individuals regarding sexual misconduct,
discrimination, harassment or related retaliation can be found at the OIEC website.
The
HONOR CODE recommended syllabus statement:
All students enrolled in a University of Colorado
Boulder course are responsible for knowing and adhering to the academic integrity
policy. Violations
of the policy may include: plagiarism, cheating, fabrication, lying, bribery,
threat, unauthorized access to academic materials, clicker fraud, resubmission,
and aiding academic dishonesty. All incidents of academic misconduct will be
reported to the Honor Code Council (honor@colorado.edu; 303-735-2273). Students who are found responsible for
violating the academic integrity policy will be subject to nonacademic
sanctions from the Honor Code Council as well as academic sanctions from the
faculty member. Additional information regarding the academic integrity policy
can be found at the Honor Code Office
website.
The development of the Internet has
provided students with historically unparalleled opportunities for conducting
research swiftly and comprehensively. The availability of these materials does
not, however, release the student from appropriately citing sources where
appropriate; or applying standard rules associated with avoiding plagiarism.
Specifically, the instructor will be expecting to review papers written by
students drawing ideas and information from various sources (cited
appropriately), presented generally in the student’s words after careful
analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. An assembly of huge blocks of other
individuals' existing material, even when cited, does not constitute an
appropriate representation of this expectation. Uncited, plagiarized material
shall be treated as academically dishonest, and the paper will be assigned an
‘F’ as a result. Papers submitted by any
student, written in part or in whole by someone other than that student, shall
be considered to constitute fraud under the University Honor Code, and result
in the assignment of an 'F' for the entire course. If the student is confused
as to what constitutes plagiarism, he/she should review the CU Honor Code on
this topic. If you have any questions regarding proper documentation in your
writing, please discuss it with your instructor.
Recommended
classroom behavior syllabus statement:
Students and faculty each have responsibility for maintaining
an appropriate learning environment. Those who fail to adhere to such
behavioral standards may be subject to discipline. Professional courtesy and
sensitivity are especially important with respect to individuals and topics
dealing with race, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy, age, disability,
creed, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression,
veteran status, political affiliation or political philosophy. Class rosters are provided to the instructor
with the student's legal name. I will gladly honor your request to address you
by an alternate name or gender pronoun. Please advise me of this preference
early in the semester so that I may make appropriate changes to my
records. For more information, see the
policies on classroom behavior and the Student Code of Conduct.
Please
arrive on time and do not leave early.
If you absolutely must leave early, please let me know at the beginning
of class and sit near a door so you do not cause too much disruption.
Similarly, if arriving late, please take a seat as quickly and quietly as
possible. Take care of all your
business before class begins; do not leave and return during class as this
creates a disturbance to others.
Taking this course signifies acceptance of the terms
and conditions stated in this syllabus.