PROPOSED OBJECTIVES AND EVIDENCE OF COMPLETION (Short Form)

This is a summary of the specific tasks and evidence required, with links provided.  For the complete amended original, see the 'long form' (linked here)

Institutional study

Objective:  9 units (16 ECTS) of graduate level political science/history courses  and 40 hours of Open University coursework. 
    

Belgian University Evidence:   

• Attendance Verification letters signed by the Instructor, 
• Politics of the EU class notes,  
• Comparative Federalism class notes,  
• Cultures and Mentalities class notes,  
• syllabus for an offering of Pol Sci 240, Political Theory.

Open University Evidence:

• An outline of course content
• Introducing Philosophy, 
• Two Concepts of Freedom, 
• Rights and Justice in International Relations
• My notes on course lecture material.
• For each of the course taken, a 500 word review of the readings, lectures and my evaluation of the topics presented in the course.

Travel

Objective:  Directed Visitation of five selected national capitals.

Evidence:  For the Travel Semester I will produce three journals. (Represented here as Blog entries)

• Preparation Week Journal: For each of the five countries, (Russia, Germany, Turkey, Cuba, China) each activity discussed in a journal entry. 
• Travel Journal: In each country, (Russia, Germany, Turkey, Cuba, China) each of these activities discussed in a journal entry.
• Photo Journal:  Supplementing the Travel Journal pictures of those sites and of their artifacts. (Integrated into the Blog entries and available in their entirety, here)