COURSE INFORMATION Course Title: THE UNITED NATION

Code	Course Type	Regular Semester	Theory	Practice	Lab	Credits	ECTS
PIR 823	B	1	3	0	0	3	10

Academic staff member responsible for the design of the course syllabus (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email address and signature)	NA
Lecturer (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email address and signature) and Office Hours:	Reina Shehi , Tuesday 10:00-12:00
Second Lecturer(s) (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email address and signature) and Office Hours:	NA
Teaching Assistant(s) and Office Hours:	NA
Language:	English
Compulsory/Elective:	Elective
Classroom and Meeting Time:	Monday, 11:30-14:00
Course Description:	-
Course Objectives:	The main goal of the course is to offer students a critical perspective of the changing functions of UN from 1945 until now. It aims to reflect the combination of UN hard power (in peace-keeping missions or humanitarian interventions) as well as UN soft power (in climate change policies or sustainable development goals).

COURSE OUTLINE

Week	Topics
1	An Introductory Guide to the Course
2	A Brief History of United Nations and its Principal Organs
3	The Role of United Nations in maintaining international peace and security
4	Case Study: The Agenda for Peace (1992)
5	The United Nations and Intervention within States
6	Case Study: UN 2003 Intervention in Iraq
7	UN Peace-building Commission & Human Rights Council
8	Book Review
9	Humanitarian Intervention and Responsibility to Protect
10	Case Study: Is Intervention against Qaddafi’s Regime Legal and Legitimate?
11	The United Nations and Economic and Social Questions
12	Case Study: The UN Conference on Environment and Development: The Earth Summit
13	Reforms of UN in the economic and social arrangements
14	Concluding Remarks

Prerequisite(s):	NA
Textbook:	Gareis, S. B. (2012). The united nations. Palgrave Macmillan Dreher, A., Sturm, J. E., & Vreeland, J. R. (2009). Global horse trading: IMF loans for votes in the United Nations Security Council. European Economic Review, 53(7), 742-757.
Other References:	Barnett, M. (1995). The new United Nations politics of peace: From juridical sovereignty to empirical sovereignty. Global Governance, 1(1), 79-97.
Laboratory Work:	NA
Computer Usage:	NA
Others:	No

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES

1	Students will critically analyze the broad range of UN activities and have a firm understanding of major problems that pervade international politics.
2	Students will integrate the general knowledge of world politics with the specific context of UN activities.
3	Students will advance their knowledge on an increased number of political, economic and social questions that are nowadays addressed by the UN institutions.

COURSE CONTRIBUTION TO... PROGRAM COMPETENCIES (Blank : no contribution, 1: least contribution ... 5: highest contribution)

No	Program Competencies	Cont.
Doctorate (PhD) in Political Science and International Relations Program
1	Having and using advanced knowledge and comprehension supported by textbooks including actual knowledge in political sciences and international relations literature, materials and the other scientific resources	5
2	Analyzing data, ideas and concepts of current political issues and international relations, determining complex events and topics, making discussions and developing new suggestions in accordance with researches	5
3	Having knowledge and thought about actual topics and problems together with their historical, social and cultural aspects.	5
4	Introducing those who are interested in politics and international events with the topics of Political Science and IR and teaching clearly the problems and the types of solutions	5
5	Improving skills of working together with the main social science disciplines and other disciplines which are related to Political Science and International Relations	3
6	Improving critical thinking and skills in making research independently	5
7	Developing solutions about the problems and conflicts which are common in national and international arena.	4
8	Improving skills for leadership and research and analyze capacity of those who is responsible with national and international ones	4
9	Knowing any foreign language enough to communicate with colleagues and understand actual researches and articles	5
10	Gaining IT skills to use computer and technology) in order to reach actual knowledge	2
11	Gaining skills to follow societal, scientific and ethic values during collecting, interpreting, conducting of data related to social and political developments	2
12	Having consciousness about human rights and environment	4
13	Gaining the skills to follow actual developments and pursue long-life learning	5

COURSE EVALUATION METHOD

Method	Quantity	Percentage
Homework	1	20
Presentation	6	5
Term Paper	1	50
	Total Percent:	100%

ECTS (ALLOCATED BASED ON STUDENT WORKLOAD)

Activities	Quantity	Duration(Hours)	Total Workload(Hours)
Course Duration (Including the exam week: 16x Total course hours)	16	4	64
Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice)	16	5	80
Mid-terms	0	0	0
Assignments	5	10	50
Final examination	1	16	16
Other	5	8	40
Total Work Load:			250
Total Work Load/25(h):			10
ECTS Credit of the Course:			10