International Politics in the New Century - via Simulation, Interactive Gaming, and 'Edutainment'

Calendar

DAY/time	Topics	Key Dates
Day 1: Global Gaming and Global Agenda
10:00 - 10:20	Introduction Challenges, Concepts, Theories, Outcomes
10:20 - 10:30	General Workshop Logic What, Why, How and When? What this Course is about - Day 1:  (a) Understanding How Games can Help Teach Many Important Concepts in Political Science (b) Making the Game Forces you to Think out all the Possible Actions and Consequences Day 2:  (a) Looking at a Situation From Different Perspectives can Bring Different Insights - so Visualization Becomes Very Important (b) Hands on Work Plotting out IR Storylines with Philip Tan Day 3:  (a) Hands on ArcGIS Homeworks and Expectations (a) Required Readings  (b) Class Participation  (c) In class Workshops  (d) 2 Short Papers, due the following day  (e) 1 Final Project, due after the class is over  (f) Grade Based on all of the Above
10:30 - 11:00	Political Edutainment, Simulation and Gaming (a) Edutainment in Historical Perspective  (b) Politics and Gaming Related Games: Strategy, IR, Power, World Exploration
11:00 - 11:30	Hot Spots and Game Logic Highlights, Templates and Visualization for Integrative Cyber-narratives and Data Barometers and Political Consequences in Global Agenda! Creation and Display of Hot Spots
11:30 - 11:45	Brief Break
11:45 - 1:00	Creative Workshop on Global Agenda Building Case-Based Story Lines, User Interfaces Discussion of Group Projects Visualizing the Gameplay Through User Interfaces
Day 2: Visualization and International Relations
10:00- 11:00	Continuation of Edutainment and Gaming Discussion of First Day and Homework (a) Serious Fun: Play, Simulation and Educational Technologies	Homework 1 due
11:00 - 11:15	Introduction Overview and Connections to Day 1
11:15 -11:30	Visualization of Hot Spots Review Hot Spots From a Visualization Perspective
11:30 - 11:45	Brief Break
11:45 - 1:00	Global Agenda Workshop Making Sense of IR Using Gaming, Visualization and Cyber-narratives Game Project Brainstorming and Design: Guest - Speaker Phillip Tan
Day 3: Enhancing Global Agenda and Visualization Strategies: Exploring Problems in International Relations
10:00 - 10:30	Demonstration and Illustration Examples Drawn From Existing Visualization Research, Highlighting Key Features of Sample Visualization Tools and Techniques that Contributed to their Respective Research In-class Exercises	Homework 2 due
10.30 - 11:30	Introduction to Geographic Information Systems ArcGIS as a Specific Tool for Managing Geographically Referenced Data Tutorial Drawn From the U.S. 2004 Elections Data
11:30 - 11:45	Brief Break
11:45 - 1:00	Final Project Discussion and Course Wrap-up	Final project due one week after the end of class