Greetings from
MIDCM! We still have open slots for GVPT356 section 0201, the Global Classroom course we run in coordination Leiden University College in the Hague, and we would like to open up the class to other undergraduate students in relevant colleges and departments who are not in the MIDCM minor.
GVPT356 section 0201: This blended-format course (part traditional, part online), sponsored by the University of Maryland’s Office of International Affairs, will pair 12 UMD students in the Minor in International Development and Conflict Management with 16 Leiden University College students in Governance and Global Affairs. They will spend the bulk of the semester collaborating in small teams working to research and produce creative, viable, and sustainable solutions to major contemporary development problems. Each team will be challenged to build expertise about a specific problem in a specific locale. The primary assignments (“deliverables”) for each team will be a jointly written project concept note and a final presentation, with smaller deliverables along the way on which these final products will build. By the end of the course, all students should develop both hard skills and issue expertise. This course will be team-taught by faculty members from both participating programs.
Interested students should complete the application found here and submit it by Friday, Nov. 29th.
Important notes: MIDCM will waive the GVPT354 prerequisite for students not enrolled in the minor. Also, this offer/application is for section 0201 only.
