esade

Prerequisites

Course Learning Objectives

CONTENT

Assessment criteria

Class Discussions and quizzes
The course is designed as a face-to-face interaction between the students and the course instructor. The course adopts the interrogative and "through-discovery? approach, thus situating the student at the center of the learning process. The classes will be structured as discussion seminars during which students will engage in discussion around the assigned reading and audio and video materials. The discussions will be guided by topic questions selected by the professor. Students will be asked to participate in class discussions by sharing their viewpoints and contributing to the informed discussion. This interrogative process of interaction, reflection, and deliberation on the study materials and past experiences is critical for understanding the relationship between international development theory and practice. It is essential that the students complete the reading and listening assignments before the class. Students will take a short quiz with three to five short questions about the weekly readings during one of the two classes each week. The average mark from these courses will count as 30% of the final grade. Two quizzes with the lowest mark will not be calculated in the quiz average grade. Participation in class discussions is highly recommended as it forms 20% of the student's final grades. ESADE requires mandatory attendance of a minimum 80% of the sessions. This amounts to 20 classes in this course. Students who miss more than 4 out of 24 classes will fail the course.

Group Position Paper and Group Debate
Students will be divided into pairs of groups and would be asked to prepare an argument for or against the motion put forward in advance (e.g. "Globalization is a positive force in international politics; "The national security is more important than civil liberties,? etc.). Students would need to use the materials covered in class to build their arguments. Each group will be asked to submit a 2000-words position paper outlining their arguments for or against the proposed motion. The position paper grade will form 20% of the final grade for each student in the group.

The debate grade will form 25% of the final grade. Furthermore, their peers would be involved in the presentation evaluation by grading different presentation elements using a 5-10 Likert scale.
Peer-to-Peer Assessment
Lastly, the group members will assess each other's participation in completing the group assignments. This will take the form of an anonymous survey in which each group member will grade others on several criteria (group meeting attendance, leadership, taking a fair share of the group work, etc.). The average peer assessment will form 5% of the individual final grade. To pass the peer-to-peer assessment students need to get at least 3.80 (out of 5) from their group peers. Otherwise, they will be asked to submit a short essay on a topic assigned by the professor in order to pass the course.

In conclusion, the final grade of each student will be formed as follows:


1. In-class average quiz grade (30%)*
2. Participation in class discussions (20%)*
3. Group Position Paper grade (20%)
4. Group Presentation grade (25%)
6. Peer-to-peer assessment (5%)**

* Minimum student attendance of 80% of sessions (20 classes) is required to pass the course and have the grades from the quiz and class participation counted as part of their final grade.
** Students who get peer-to-peer grades below 3.8 (out of 5) due to their lack of participation in group work will be required to submit an essay to pass the course.

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