| Course ID: | INTL 4265E. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Global Simulation |
Course
Description: | Students create, implement, and evaluate various foreign and domestic policy strategies by working as teams, managing governments in a multiplayer computer-game simulation. Throughout the course, students will explore the academic literature on foreign policy and international relations and evaluate the degree to which this scholarship is useful to real-world policymakers. |
| Oasis Title: | Global Simulation |
| Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in INTL 4265 |
| Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online. |
| Prerequisite: | INTL 3200 or INTL 3200E or INTL 3300 or INTL 3300E |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | Students learn how to craft effective foreign policy strategies, develop policy analysis skills, and use their simulation experiences to critically evaluate the contemporary scholarship on international politics. By the end of the course, students will have a solid grounding in how foreign policy is formulated, the challenges to effective policy implementation, and a broad understanding of the relationship between academic research and the conduct of foreign policy. |
| Topical Outline: | Topical Outline:
1) National Security Doctrines
2) Alliance Politics
3) Conflict Initiation and Termination
4) Negotiation and Cooperation
5) Deterrence Policy
6) Decision Making
7) Norms and Values in Foregoing Policy
8) Realist and Constructivist Theories of International Politics |
| Honor Code Reference: | The academic honesty policy of the University is supplemented (not replaced) by an Honor Code which was adopted by the Student Government Association and approved by the University Council May 1, 1997, and provides: "I will be academically honest in all of my academic work and will not tolerate academic dishonesty of others." All students agree to abide by this code by signing the UGA Admissions Application. |