- Learning to analyse relevant primary sources
- Learning to write primacy sources, such as resolutions, declarations and policy memos from a policy advisor's perspective in order to prepare yourself for a career in policy making
- Learning to present prepared materials orally in a simulated working situation
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This course will focus on primary sources. The students will not only learn how to interpret primary sources such as resolutions, declarations, speeches and policy memos, but they will also become a policy advisor themselves by actually creating primary sources. Rather than passively analysing other people’s sources the students will actively engage in past and current affairs and make policy themselves. This course will raise the students’ awareness of the fact that the sources they usually study merely as static historical objects have actually been part of a dynamic process, which was intended to shape the future rather than reflect the past. After selecting and studying a wide range of sources from inter alia international organisations in depth, students will write their own policy memo, resolution or declaration, while taking the political context and the relevant goals into account. At the end of the course, students will also participate in the simulation of a large international organisation, such as the UN, so as to put their knowledge of International Relations in practice.
To pass this course students are expected to attend the extracurricular Meet the Experts Seminar Series. These are meant to increase the students' knowledge and understanding of how IR works in practice.
Career Orientation
By learning to write policy memos, resolutions and declarations and testing and defending these in a practical working situation, and by attending and actively participate in seminars with experts from the field students prepare themselves for a career in (foreign) policy making.
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