EDS374B International Relations Theory II

The course includes lectures and seminars, with each week focusing on one school of thought/perspective. In lecture sessions, the course convenor provides an overview of the topic of the week. The lectures help to guide you through the suite of critical theoretical approaches that are the core of the course. In order to be successful in this course, you are expected to do the readings and engage actively in discussions in the seminars.

Every lecture will be followed by a seminar session. A seminar normally consists of a discussion of the required readings and group work activities that connect the theoretical angle of the week to empirical world problems.

You are expected to have read the assigned reading for each seminar (usually 3 articles or chapter-length readings per week). There are assigned questions for each article that you should be prepared to answer and discuss with the class (we divide into smaller groups for discussion). Students take responsibility to be especially prepared for and lead discussions on one seminar/topic. For a better understanding of the lectures, it also makes sense to do the reading before the lecture. We also provide additional reading sources - from simpler to more complex options - in the Canvas room that you can use to further your understanding.

This course has continuous assessment ("mappevurdering"), consisting of obligatory seminar leadership and two submitted components:

• 1: Project work on popular culture in IR (group work).
• 2: A theory-based research paper on a chosen topic of max 3500 words (individual paper).

The continuous assessment results in one final grade. In this final grade, the group project work accounts for 40% and the individual paper counts for 60%. Grades are on an A-F scale. The assignments is in English.

Students can appeal against the final grade and this results in re-assessment of all submitted work. Both the group work and the theory-based research paper must be done in English.