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major_panic said:
STOP THE PRESS. I'm doing Terrorism: Shifting Paradigms too!

:hi5:

4pm Thursday tute if you're interested :wink:
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HOLY SHIT WE'RE IN THE SAME TUTE.

Though actually, weren't there two on offer at that time? (Can't get the fucking screen back up to confirm.) I'm in the one in the Alice Hoy building.
 
Well, if by "interacting in the university community" you mean taking your pants off at uni, I'd say that's probably bad. Unless you're female.

Dunno though to be honest, you'd have to ask Varitek about the whole taking-off-pants thing :wink:

Yep same tute. Damn, that's awesome.

Wait, there are two in Alice Hoy. I'm in the one in room 323, how about you?
 
Wait, I got the screen up, there's two Alice Hoy tutes at 4pm Thursday, rooms 323 and 332. I'm in 332.

Edit: Damnit, just saw you're in 323! If one of them becomes un-full, one of us should totally switch.
 
Can you actually do it? It's currently telling me all 3 of the 4pm Terrorism tutes are full. But then again, it could be out of date, and I don't trust the system enough to dare refreshing it!

By the way, I just realised I don't know your name. As much as I'd like to walk up to you and go "Maj. Panic, sir!" and salute, I don't quite want to run the risk of getting the wrong person. (I'm André, though chances are everybody knows that already.)
 
Done, after only one hour. Yep same tute Ax, it filled up after I joined.

I'm U-Wen, pronounced Ewan (like Ewan McGregor I tells everyone). Like I said before, stereotypical Chinese guy :wink:

I'm off to bed now, bye all! Keep the thread awesome!
 
major_panic said:
Done, after only one hour. Yep same tute Ax, it filled up after I joined.

I'm U-Wen, pronounced Ewan (like Ewan McGregor I tells everyone). Like I said before, stereotypical Chinese guy :wink:

I'm off to bed now, bye all! Keep the thread awesome!
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This is so cool. I'll see you there! I'd laugh if you're in any of my other classes: Democracy & Violence, History in the Field, and Holocaust & Genocide. Not that History in the Field really counts, as that's a placement in a work environment.

Bloody hell, Alloc8 was exceptionally painful. Whoever's behind that ought to be fired.

I should be off to sleep too, but I'm sure Varitek and I will find a thread for postwhoring for the next hour.
 
I actually very nearly didn't do Terrorism: Shifting Paradigms, as I did a course last year called Terrorism in Modern Conflict. But I need one more PolSci class to get the required points for the major, and it was either that or the surely dull Australian Foreign Policy. In any case, Terrorism in Modern Conflict was a History faculty course while this one is PolSci, so some different angles of analysis and such will be good, and I've already got a foundation in the material.
 
:lol: I was bitching a few days ago about how SHIT our choices are this semester compared with last year!

In PolSci for 2nd/3rd year students, we can do:
- American Politics and Society (which I did)
- Chinese Politics and Society
- Australian Foreign Policy (snooze, surely)
- Public Policy Making (suddenly Aussie Foreign Policy doesn't sound so bad)
- Europe: Identities & Citizenship (I've already done a similar course and it wasn't very thrilling content-wise, despite having an awesome lecturer)
- Terrorism: Shifting Paradigms
- Democracy & Violence
- On Country Learning: Indigenous Studies (this might be cool if it weren't, you know, on country)
 
The polisci classes I've taken beyond intros/theory requirement were:

Democratic Theory and practice (during the election in 2004, we did voter reg and gotv stuff)
Politics of the Middle East
Transitional Justice
Democratization
Politics of Development (one of 3 development classes I've taken, the others econ)
(American) Defense Policy (with a legendary prof) - a lot about terrorism and Iraq
 
US Gov & Politics
Comparative Gov & Politics
Nations and Nationalities
World Politics and Economy
Research Methods
Political Theory
Political Theory 2
Constitutional Law
Govt and Pol of Asia
World Politics and Economy 2

very general stuff. i don't think there were cool specific courses like the ones you've taken when i was there. now of course, the major has evolved. students don't have to wait til grad school to take things like Democracy & Violence
 
Varitek said:
The polisci classes I've taken beyond intros/theory requirement were:

Democratic Theory and practice (during the election in 2004, we did voter reg and gotv stuff)
Politics of the Middle East
Transitional Justice
Democratization
Politics of Development (one of 3 development classes I've taken, the others econ)
(American) Defense Policy (with a legendary prof) - a lot about terrorism and Iraq
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Huh, I did a course called Politics of Development too, back when I went to uni in Queensland. It was amazing; the first 2nd year course I took. I did it in my 1st year because I'd built up enough credits in the first semester and found the intro courses mindnumbingly boring and painfully easy. Best decision I've made at uni so far.

And any course entitled "Politics of the Middle East" is sure to be insane. I did one called The Modern Middle East last year, as a History rather than PolSci subject, and my goodness, that was a real mindfuck.
 
unico said:
US Gov & Politics
Comparative Gov & Politics
Nations and Nationalities
World Politics and Economy
Research Methods
Political Theory
Political Theory 2
Constitutional Law
Govt and Pol of Asia
World Politics and Economy 2

very general stuff. i don't think there were cool specific courses like the ones you've taken when i was there. now of course, the major has evolved. students don't have to wait til grad school to take things like Democracy & Violence
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Yikes, that is very general. I much, much prefer the more specific stuff. Here's a sample of what I did last year, which was my second year:

History
- Crisis Zones of Europe (with the BEST. LECTURER. EVER. Robert Horvath. He's published some stuff on Eastern European and Russian dissidents.)
- The Struggle for Universal Human Rights (also with the BEST. LECTURER. EVER. It was in this class that I decided to become a New Zealand specialist. Rock on being the first country to give women the vote!)
- Terrorism in Modern Conflict
- Modern Middle East
- History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (Total. Mindfuck. I swear to God, I couldn't handle studying that stuff for a living.)

PolSci
- European Integration: Politics of the EU
- American Politics and Society
- Transitions in Central and Eastern Europe
 
I'm really sad I didn't have room to take a history course here on E. Europe Nations and Nationalisms, I've only taken 2 histories (Image of Africa and this semester "Leopold to Kabila: Central Africa's Bad 20th century" both with the same amazing prof). And Policy Making does sound like a snooze, I'm a Public Policy minor and had to sit through an awful attachment to my thesis that was along those lines. I often brought my computer and posted on Interference and read Gawker....

I also would have loved to take 2 polisci classes this semester, Terrorism, and The American Way of War, but my last semester I was already so booked. Actually, I'm taking a fiction workshop so that's kind of a lie, but I couldn't have taken all 3 history and poliscis I wanted to anyway.
 
Axver said:

And any course entitled "Politics of the Middle East" is sure to be insane. I did one called The Modern Middle East last year, as a History rather than PolSci subject, and my goodness, that was a real mindfuck.
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Unfortunately it was a visiting prof and completely sucked. I don't remember anything I "learned" in that class. :( I remember a lot more from the Cultures of the Middle East sociology class I took freshman fall with an awesome prof.
 
Varitek said:
I'm really sad I didn't have room to take a history course here on E. Europe Nations and Nationalisms, I've only taken 2 histories (Image of Africa and this semester "Leopold to Kabila: Central Africa's Bad 20th century" both with the same amazing prof). And Policy Making does sound like a snooze, I'm a Public Policy minor and had to sit through an awful attachment to my thesis that was along those lines. I often brought my computer and posted on Interference and read Gawker....

I also would have loved to take 2 polisci classes this semester, Terrorism, and The American Way of War, but my last semester I was already so booked. Actually, I'm taking a fiction workshop so that's kind of a lie, but I couldn't have taken all 3 history and poliscis I wanted to anyway.
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I've only ever done History and PolSci at university level. I thought about doing a Sociology course this year, but it would require dropping a History course as I need all of my PolSci courses to get the points for a major. I can afford to lose a History course without threatening the points for my History major but I don't want to drop the ones I'm in.

Also, that Leopold to Kabila course sounds like it would be all kinds of fascinating. Shame you couldn't do the Eastern Europe one; my Crisis Zones of Europe course focused on that part of the world and was just stunningly interesting. I very nearly pursued Romanian political history further. Then I fell in love with New Zealand's history and haven't looked back.
 
That's the beauty of American liberal arts. I've done Polisci, econ, history, soc, philosophy, art history, an astro course and stat course for requirements, a russian lit course...and I'm going to have a major and 2 minors, but I could have had a double major.

Leopold to Kabila is awesome. He's a brilliant lecturer, we're reading fabulous books, and I've wanted to take the class for 4 years but this is the first time it ran. The only bad thing is it's an intro history class (he does 3 africa intros, western africa/slave trade and south africa are the other 2) so there's a lot of silly underclassmen and 2 short papers and a final instead of a substantive research paper. One of the papers is the one I wrote yesterday morning in 2 hours, haha.

I'm kind of wishing I'd done the E. Europe class now, my Political Economy of Africa class is so far a complete snooze as it's been a 4 week revision of the Economic Development class I took last semester with the same prof. It'll probably be better to have on my transcript, but I'm still sad. Especially because some Balkans history could have helped me out this summer.
 
I could have done much more, in a BA degree here you have a huge amount of choice, but I chose not to. History and PolSci are my fields and where my passion lies - increasingly History over PolSci. I believe that had I done my first year in Melbourne rather than UQ, I would have ended up choosing some other courses due to poorer first year choice, but UQ's first year History and PolSci selections were quite fine by me, and because I transferred universities (with the associated credit transfer issues) and over-did it on History last year, I've ended up fairly locked into History and PolSci this year. Not that I mind.

I do wish I could do a specific course on New Zealand though. I just have to do custom research essay topics and such instead, whenever I can fit it into a course's general theme. I'm really looking forward to doing my Honours thesis on the socio-political impact of the 1870 Great Public Works Programme. :nerd:
 
Somehow I think that sounds a lot more interesting than mine does.

In fact, I'm probably the only person who even gives a shit about my topic. But it's got Julius Vogel (the only politician I truly respect), New Zealand, and railways! :drool:
 
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