Semester | Spring Semester, 2025 | ||
Department | Junior Class of Department of Political Science Senior Class of Department of Political Science | ||
Course Name | The Title of the Course: Reading a Contemporary Well-known Book of Political Science | ||
Instructor | TUNG KUO-YU | ||
Credit | 3.0 | ||
Course Type | Elective | ||
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Course Objective |
Course Description |
Course Schedule |
Week 1: Introduction of the course, the key authors of assigned-reading books Week 2: The Question of World Order, the Introduction part of Henry Kissinger's World Order (2014) Week 3: Chapter 1 of Kissinger's World Order (2014) Week 4: Chapter 2 of Kissinger's World Order (2014) Week 5: Chapter 3 of Kissinger's World Order (2014) Week 6: Chapter 4 of Kissinger's World Order (2014) Week 7: a homework for writing a report of the 2023 Israeli-Palestinian war Week 8: Discussion of the homework report Week 9: Mid-term Exam. Week 10: Chapter 5 of Kissinger's World Order (2014) Week 11: Chapter 6 of Kissinger's World Order (2014) Week 12: Chaper 7 of Kissinger's World Order (2014) Week 13: Chapter 8 of Kissinger's World Order (2014) Week 14: Chapter 9 of Kissinger's World Order (2014) Week 15: Conclusion of Kissinger's World Order (2014) Week 16: Chapter 2 & 5 of Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (2011) Week 17: Final Exam. Week 18: Self-reading of Chapter 9 of Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (2011) 授課方式 |
Teaching Methods |
Teaching Assistant |
To be decided |
Requirement/Grading |
mid-term exam: 35%; final exam: 40%; class participation: 25% |
Textbook & Reference |
Henry Kissinger, World Order (New York, Penguin,2014) Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order ( New York, Simon & Schuster, 2011) |
Urls about Course |
Chapter 4 of John J. Mearsheimer, The Great Delusion (New Haven, Yale University, 2018) |
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