5 DAYS/WEEK, STARTING FROM THE FIRST DAY OF CLASS, YOU ARE DOING ASSIGNED WORK. All homework items, which can always be found in "Course Summary" below; by clicking "Jump to Today"; by looking in this course or in your Canvas Dashboard at "To Do" and "Coming up"; by clicking "Course Stream"; by clicking "Calendar." You should set notifications to receive email notifications of all newly assigned work. Set all "Course Activities," "Discussions," "Conversations," "Groups" to "Notify Me Immediately." This is an important video on how to set notifications.

EVERY WEEK YOU ARE ASSIGNED THE FOLLOWING: For the first eight to nine weeks, each week, you are assigned: two reading quizzes, one class review quiz, and one discussion thread. As we venture into our research project work, you are given two to three project-related assignments per week.

ALL WORK IS ASSIGNED AND SUBMITTED ON CANVAS. IT IS AT YOUR FINGERTIPS, EVERYWHERE YOU GO. ALL OPEN/DUE DATES ARE PRESENT IN NUMEROUS PLACES ON CANVAS (See above). SO, NO EXCUSES FOR NOT SUBMITTING IT ON TIME. DO NOT ASK ME TO REOPEN ASSIGNMENTS.

You are permitted to attend class REMOTELY or IN PERSON, but do not attend in person if you are not feeling well. All classes are RECORDED.

You are 100% RESPONSIBLE for all lecture/discussion material. (See below for more details).

A PORTABLE, PERSONAL COMPUTING DEVICE is essential to doing work in- and outside the classroom.

CANVAS AUTOMATICALLY SAVES your work and, therefore, before the due date you may open and work on the assignment as many times as you wish. Just don't click "Submit" until you are finished.

ANSWER KEYS to Canvas questions are always shown to students after the due date. Consider those feedback. If you feel I made a mistake, then don't hesitate to contact me.

OFFICE365. All students have Office365 accounts, meaning all of you have access to online and downloadable versions of Microsoft Office. If you have not done so, then please download all of Microsoft Office. Any files submitted must be in MS Office formats.

ACADEMIC DISHONESTY (Plagiarism, Cheating). My policy is that which is stated in the Franklin Pierce University Academic Catalog. Regarding the "instructor's discretion" part of the policy, a student receives a zero for the assignment, in addition to the penalties described in the catalog.

SPECIAL ACADEMIC ACCOMMODATIONS must be sought at the Center for Academic Excellence

THE GOAL OF THIS COURSE is to explore major concepts and theories of economic and political development. In pursuit of this goal, we will conduct comparative political inquiry into

(1) democratic and authoritarian political systems;

(2) the rule of law and dictatorship;

(3) respect for and repression of human rights;

(4) corruption and transparency in government;

(5) rich, middle-income, and poor societies

(6) quality-of-life issues in the nations of the world

Our inquiry will culminate in research that we will present in two plenary hearings, one in a 2021 Model World Bank Conference and another in a 2021 Model United Nations Human Rights Conference.

SKILLS DEVELOPED:

social science inquiry
scholarly analysis
written and oral communication
critical thinking
digital literacy
teamwork

COURSEWORK consists of the following:

(1) FUNDAMENTALS: Concepts, Theory, Reading/Lecture Comprehension

Homework on the following:

assigned reading
assigned audio/visual materials
lectures and discussions

For homework on lectures and discussions use your notes and the recordings. Everyone is accountable for lectures and discussion material whether absent of not.

The due dates leave everyone plenty of time to complete work in accord with their personal schedules.

Canvas automatically saves your work and, therefore, before the due date you may open up the assignment as many times as you wish. Just don't click "Submit" until you are finished.

Students are welcome to help each other with all "FUNDAMENTALS" work.

(2) INTELLECTUAL AND SCHOLARLY INQUIRY

discussion boards
group work
oral presentations
research projects
applied learning

We will use class time, on occasion, as a research lab period.