In this week you will:

• start setting up your personal learning environment by getting a twitter account, and
• learn about the formulation of the United Nations, its role, structure and mandate.

In preparation for your first tutorials next week, you must:

1. Watch the 2 part lecture on the History of International Cooperation
2. Do Activity 1 and then watch the video on the Structure of the United Nations
3. Watch the final lecture on the Creation of the United Nations

If you have time, take a look at the extension exercises. Make sure that you write notes as you go and note down any questions that you have to raise in tutorials and/or by tweeting out to the group.

What do you think the UN does?

• Grab a pen and paper and jot down a list of things you think the UN does, based on your general knowledge.
• Next watch the video presentations below, and jot down anything new that you hear
• How close was your original list? What other activities or information did you note down as new?
• Pick one or two of your observations and tweet out to the group making sure to add #UOWMUN

Take a look at some of the key works that have influenced international relations over time:

• The Prince, Nicolo Machiavelli
• Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes
• The Covenant of the League of Nations
• The Geneva Conventions (along the right menu)

These are also useful resources:

• People’s Century, Lost Peace
• United Nations Charter – please focus on content from the Preamble to Chapter VIII