 | Name | File Type |
 | Welcome | |
| | | Welcome to Governments, Global Trade and Money! This website will help us navigate the exciting world of political economy this summer by providing course materials, helpful announcements, links to additional readings and websites and important information for students. |
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 | Course Syllabus | Folder |
| | | This folder contains the course syllabus. |
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 | Course Readings | Folder |
| | | This folder contains additional readings for the course. Inside you will find the .pdf files for you to print, read and bring to class. You will also find the link and access code for the Wilson Library e-reserve. E-reserve has scanned additional readings for you to print. |
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 | Class Lectures | Folder |
| | | Powerpoint slides of lectures given in class |
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| Sample Mini-Writes | Folder |
| | | This folder contains sample mini-writes generously donated by your classmates. All donated mini-writes received a 10/10 and were completed by 4889 students. |
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 | Handouts for Assignments | Folder |
| | | Handouts detailing the requirements of class assignments. |
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 | Group Presentations (4 credits) | |
| | | Groups are listed below with date and material to be covered:
1. Cass Casper, Jose Ferreira and Adeel Ahmed. Amartya Sen, Development As Freedom, pp. 3-146. Presentation Wed. July 6
2. Elizabeth Leland, Arjun Kataria and Kimberly Owen. Amartya Sen, Development As Freedom, pp. 146-298. Wed. July 13.
3. Declan Mumford and Jeren Anderdson. The end of Poverty, pp. 1-89 and 210-225. Wed. July 20
4. Robert McGarry, Sara Musky-Fuller and Ato Taylor. Jeffrey Sachs, The End of Poverty, pp. 226-368, Monday July 25
5. Eric Vigoren and Patricia Willers. Another World is Possible If, pp. vii-28 and 53-108. Wed. July 27.
6. Nicole Yarbrough and Ryan Fossey. Another World is Possible if, pp. 133-246. Monday Aug. 1.
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 | Contact Information | |
| | | Contact Information for Instructor:
Amy Skonieczny (pronounced Scone-yez-knee)
1214a Social Sciences
Office Hours:
Mon., 4:45 - 5:30pm
Wed., 4:45 - 5:30pm, 8:45 - 9:15 pm
Or by appt.
Email: amysko@polisci.umn.edu, or skoniecznya@hotmail.com
Phone: 612-227-2324
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 | Commanding Heights | URL |
| | | In the following link you will find supporting material from the movie 'Commanding Heights: Battle of Ideas'. You may wish to access the material for information on the main ideas and people discussed in the film. |
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 | Subscribe to New York Times | URL |
| | | Click on this link to subscribe to the New York Times at 50% off! |
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| FILM: From GATT to WTO (17 minutes) | URL |
| | | Here is the link to the film for class today (6/20). Scroll down to find the From Gatt to WTO download. Hope you all can watch it! Sorry for the tech failure... |
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