OER1002/assessment


 * 1) Module 1: About the UN - quiz worth 15%
 * 2) Week 1: Background and History of the UN (online preparation: course outlines, website orientation, Structure of the UN video and readings?)
 * 3) Week 2: International Relations Theory
 * 4) Week 3:Negotiation (intro, case studies, reflections on limitations of what UN can achieve, relevance of Intnl relations theory to practice)
 * 5) Week 4: Diplomacy (case studies, reflections on limitations of what UN can achieve, relevance of Intnl relations theory to practice)
 * 6) Module 2: Global Issues in Practice - briefing/issues paper worth 40%
 * 7) Week 5:Context tba (online preparation: get twitter account, UN twitter orientation, find and tweet country-based resources) (workshop - useful websites and research)
 * 8) Week 6: Context tba (workshop: negotiate a household crisis ie negotiation practical exercise part 1)
 * 9) Week 7: Context tba (workshop: crisis council, negotiation practical exercise part 2)
 * 10) Week 8: Context tba  (online preparation: blog orientation and #UOWMUN15)
 * 11) Module 3: Model United Nations Simulation - participation 25%, and reflective journal 20% (F2F students: reflect on both face-to face and online interactions, with all postings in appendix)
 * 12) Week 9: 2 min Speech Summary of Country Position papers, noting that in the case of multiple delegates, you'll need to get together before-hand and agree on one combined Position Paper speech
 * 13) Week 10: Introduce draft resolutions (online preparation - consider alliances, whose position are you closest to? whose resolutions will you endorse?)
 * 14) Week 11: Introduce amendments (online preparation - consider alliances, which additions/deletions do you support? whose amendments will you endorse?)
 * 15) Week 12: Finale debate and Online vote (online preparation - working across countries to decide on the wording of the final resolution)
 * 16) Week 13: Debrief