| Day 1: Global Gaming and Global Agenda |
| 10:00 - 10:20 |
Introduction
Challenges, Concepts, Theories, Outcomes |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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| 11:30 - 11:45 |
Brief Break |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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| 11:15 -11:30 |
Visualization of Hot Spots
Review Hot Spots From a Visualization Perspective |
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| 11:30 - 11:45 |
Brief Break |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 11:30 - 11:45 |
Brief Break |
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| 11:45 - 1:00 |
Final Project Discussion and Course Wrap-up |
Final project due one week after the end of class |