817.272.2991

PO Box 19539

University of Texas at Arlington

Arlington, TX 76019

Professor Story's Home Page

Spring 2012

Class:  025 University Hall, 8-8:50am MWF

Office:  449 University Hall

story@uta.edu

Spring 2012 Office Hours (by appointment):  9-11 MWF; 9:30-10:00 TR

Hand-outs:

• Syllabus

• Student Response Pads

  • Student Enrollment Instructions for CPS (Einstruction) Response Pad

  • Be sure to enroll your response pad asap (and no later than Wed., Jan. 25, 8am)

  • Confirmation of Enrollment of Student Response Pad in a Particular Course.

  • Student Response Pad Quick Reference Guide.

  • Student Response Pad General Information

  • More Colleges Using Student Response Pads

• List of Current Presidents of 20 Countries

• Research Paper

  • Resources for Writing Political Science Research Papers

• Statistical Project

  • Crosstabs and the Chi Square Statistic

• Misc.

  • Seating Chart

  • How to Study.  Does a "Best" Approach Exist?

  • What Did We Discuss In Class Today?

   

Announcements:

• It is the responsibility of every student to confirm that they are registered for this class.

• The Mid-Term will consist of essay questions as well as objective questions requiring that you know the:

  • map location and correct spelling for the 20 countries

  • last names of the first 10 Presidents on the "List of Current Presidents of 20 Countries" above.

  • main points of the "Additional Readings" below.

• The Final will consist of essay questions as well as objective questions requiring that you know the:

  • last names of the final 10 Presidents on the "List of Current Presidents of 20 Countries" above.

  • main points of the "Additional Readings" for Second Exam below.

• President Uribe of Colombia (2002-2010) to speak in Fort Worth on April 24.

Additional Readings for all Students:

• MID-TERM EXAM

  • Argentine Presidential Terms--IMF Questions Statistics

  • Ecuador--Oil Exploration in the Amazon

  • Mexico's Panista Party Nominates Josefina Vázquez Mota as their Presidential Candidate (first woman from a major party)

  • Great Britain Resists Negotiations with Argentina over Falklands/Malvinas

  • Venezuelan Presidential Election and Challenge to Chavez

• SECOND EXAM

  • The Impact of Chavez Illness on the Venezuelan Presidential Election

  • Brazil, Oil Spill, and Detaining US Oil Company Employees

  • President of Ecuador Restrains the Press

  • The Pope in Cuba

  • The Pope in Mexico

Topics with Relevant Links

• Introduction

• Late and Dependent Development

• Regime Type and Political Actors

• Argentina

• Brazil

• Peru

• South American Journey Video

• Chile

• Venezuela

• Colombia

• Mexico

  • Zapatistas and Chiapas

    • Facts About Chiapas

    • Zapatistas 17 Years Later

    • A Place Called Chiapas or better video

    • None of the "Less Commonly Taught Languages" that are taught in U.S. universities include the indigenous languages of Chiapas

      • Complete List of LCTLs taught in U.S. universities

      • Indigenous languages of Chiapas

• Cuba

  • Che Guevara's Motorcycle's Diary

• Central America (El Salvador and Nicaragua, specifically)

Related Links:

• Model OAS

• Chewing Coca Leaves

  • Scientific study

  • Case study

  • UN study:  Cocaine addiction and Coca leaves

  • Legal and illegal production of coca in South America

  • Coca-Cola--The original version of what we now know as Coca-Cola, drew on the medicinal benefits of coca.  Now, as the Coca-Cola company points out, any trace of an addictive drug has been taken out of its product, but the company still buys coca from Bolivia to be used as flavoring.  The flavoring of coca is non-addictive,

  • Evo Morales on Coca--I am a coca grower. I cultivate coca leaf, which is a natural product. I do not refine (it into) cocaine, and neither cocaine nor drugs have ever been part of the Andean culture.

  • Coca policy--international and domestic in Bolivia

• Ecuador

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SK12dw-Ke_w

  • Crude (the movie)

• Examples of Quantitative Research

  • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita on Climate Change 1

  • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita on Climate Change 2

  • Bruce Bueno de Mesquite on Iran

  • Hans Rosling on Global Development and Poverty

  • Hans Rosling on New Insights on Poverty

  • Nate Silver on Racism in Elections

  • Peter Donnelly, How Juries are Fooled by Statistics

  • Failed States Index

  • Peter Smith Graph on Democracy in Latin America

• Drafts

  • Mexico 1

  • Mexico 2

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Main Office, 817.272.2991, 206UH

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Department of Political Science

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Arlington, Texas 76019

Phone 817.272.2991

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