{"id":2608,"date":"2018-05-25T15:33:20","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T05:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/mun\/?page_id=2608"},"modified":"2018-05-25T15:33:20","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T05:33:20","slug":"course-aims","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/mun\/about\/course-aims\/","title":{"rendered":"Course Aims"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\" class=\"mw-body container\" role=\"main\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<div class=\"panel\">\n<div class=\"panel-body\">\n<div id=\"bodyContent\">\n<div id=\"mw-content-text\" lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"mw-content-ltr\">\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Course_Aims\">Course Aims<\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"thumb tright\">\n<div class=\"thumbinner thumbnail\" style=\"width:402px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/WikiEducator.org\/File:UNFlag_USAID_CCBY2.0.jpg\" class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/\/WikiEducator.org\/images\/thumb\/2\/25\/UNFlag_USAID_CCBY2.0.jpg\/400px-UNFlag_USAID_CCBY2.0.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"thumbimage img-responsive\"><\/a>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"thumbcaption\">UN flag flying<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>What you&#8217;ll do:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Learn about the United Nations (UN) and take a short quiz\n<\/li>\n<li> Research and write a briefing paper on a current global issue from the perspective of a diplomat from an assigned country\n<\/li>\n<li> Present it to a mock United Nations session\n<\/li>\n<li> Listen and consider the presentations from the other nations UN representatives (ie other students&#8217; briefing papers)\n<\/li>\n<li> Negotiate towards a resolution\n<\/li>\n<li> Reflect on your performance at the Model United Nations\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What you&#8217;ll learn\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> The structure, role and functions of the United Nations systems and the key challenges it faces\n<\/li>\n<li> How to develop briefing papers on complex international challenges from the perspective of a country other than your country of origin\n<\/li>\n<li> How to negotiate and present effectively on global matters and challenges\n<\/li>\n<li> To critically reflect upon personal and societal assumptions about how societies should function and be able to challenge these.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With this under your belt you&#8217;ll be developing skills towards the following which are typical of university programs in International Studies:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Critically analyse interconnections between local and global international issues and events as well as the historical and contemporary processes that have transformed the globe\n<\/li>\n<li> Apply qualitative and quantitative analytic and problem-solving skills necessary for international studies, careers and global citizenship;\n<\/li>\n<li> Demonstrate a sound understanding of key components of global society and key global challenges through insights and knowledge gained from multiple perspectives and disciplines\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information see the INTS200 Model United Nations Subject Outline on the subject Moodle site.\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCPU time usage: 0.012 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.013 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 2\/1000000\nPreprocessor generated node count: 8\/1000000\nPost\u2010expand include size: 0\/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 0\/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 2\/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0\/100\n--><\/p>\n<p><!-- Saved in parser cache with key wikiedu-mw_:pcache:idhash:164787-0!*!*!*!*!2!* and timestamp 20180524215939 and revision id 1025226\n -->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"visualClear\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<ul class=\"pager\">\n<li class=\"previous\">\n            <a href=\"\/mun\/mun\/about\/about-the-course\">\u2190 Previous<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<li class=\"next\">\n            <a href=\"\/mun\/mun\/about\/teaching-team\">Next \u2192<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<footer>\n<br \/>\n<\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Course Aims UN flag flying What you&#8217;ll do: Learn about the United Nations (UN) and take a short quiz Research and write a briefing paper on a current global issue from the perspective of a diplomat from an assigned country Present it to a mock United Nations session Listen and consider the presentations from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"parent":2604,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2608","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/mun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/mun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/mun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/mun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/mun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/mun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2609,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/mun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2608\/revisions\/2609"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/mun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/mun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}