English for Political Science and International Relations

Week 1

Weekly Topic List
Please choose the ones you want to read/watch/have discussions on. You may also come up with you own suggestions.


Questions for next week:

For a brief discussion on syllabus negotiation, please do a bit of searching around in your work for other courses and on the internet and write down some answers for yourself to the questions below:

1. What are the major issues in political science, international relations, and security studies at present?

2. Which countries are you most interested in learning and reading about?

3. How much do you already know about the governmental structures of those countries and the current issues?

4. What are the key issues at present? What topics would you most like to cover in this course?