International Relations: Contemporary Issues and Actors

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The two main skills that students develop are critical thinking and ability to form and express their own conceptually informed opinions on the major issues, actors and processes in IR today. At the end of the course, when confronted with current events and latest news, students are able to understand these from a number of competitive conceptual perspectives, critically interpret them and quickly formulate a well-informed opinion. Other related skills include: • Efficient in-depth research and writing (on individually chosen topic for the final paper); • Quick reaction time in understanding, explaining and conceptually interpreting issues in IR (during tutorial presentations and discussions); • Effective team-work (in preparation for class discussions); • Persuasive presentation (of different topics in class); • Leading and facilitating discussions (both in small and big groups in class); • Efficient time-management (when preparing for tutorials and undertaking research on the final paper).