| DAY/time | Topics | Key Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Day 1: Global Gaming and Global Agenda | ||
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Introduction Challenges, Concepts, Theories, Outcomes | |
| 10:20 - 10:30 | General Workshop Logic What, Why, How and When? What this Course is about - Day 1: (a) Understanding How Games can Help Teach Many Important Concepts in Political Science (b) Making the Game Forces you to Think out all the Possible Actions and Consequences Day 2: (a) Looking at a Situation From Different Perspectives can Bring Different Insights - so Visualization Becomes Very Important (b) Hands on Work Plotting out IR Storylines with Philip Tan Day 3: (a) Hands on ArcGIS Homeworks and Expectations (a) Required Readings (b) Class Participation (c) In class Workshops (d) 2 Short Papers, due the following day (e) 1 Final Project, due after the class is over (f) Grade Based on all of the Above | |
10:30 - 11:00 | Political Edutainment, Simulation and Gaming (a) Edutainment in Historical Perspective (b) Politics and Gaming Related Games: Strategy, IR, Power, World Exploration | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Hot Spots and Game Logic Highlights, Templates and Visualization for Integrative Cyber-narratives and Data Barometers and Political Consequences in Global Agenda! Creation and Display of Hot Spots | |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Brief Break | |
11:45 - 1:00 | Creative Workshop on Global Agenda Building Case-Based Story Lines, User Interfaces Discussion of Group Projects Visualizing the Gameplay Through User Interfaces | |
| Day 2: Visualization and International Relations | ||
| 10:00- 11:00 | Continuation of Edutainment and Gaming Discussion of First Day and Homework (a) Serious Fun: Play, Simulation and Educational Technologies | Homework 1 due |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Introduction Overview and Connections to Day 1 | |
| 11:15 -11:30 | Visualization of Hot Spots Review Hot Spots From a Visualization Perspective | |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Brief Break | |
| 11:45 - 1:00 | Global Agenda Workshop Making Sense of IR Using Gaming, Visualization and Cyber-narratives Game Project Brainstorming and Design: Guest - Speaker Phillip Tan | |
| Day 3: Enhancing Global Agenda and Visualization Strategies: Exploring Problems in International Relations | ||
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Demonstration and Illustration Examples Drawn From Existing Visualization Research, Highlighting Key Features of Sample Visualization Tools and Techniques that Contributed to their Respective Research In-class Exercises | Homework 2 due |
| 10.30 - 11:30 | Introduction to Geographic Information Systems ArcGIS as a Specific Tool for Managing Geographically Referenced Data Tutorial Drawn From the U.S. 2004 Elections Data | |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Brief Break | |
| 11:45 - 1:00 | Final Project Discussion and Course Wrap-up | Final project due one week after the end of class |