World Regions: Summer 2012

Last class! Talked about news stores for the first half of class - Turkey/Syria, banning of circumcision in Germany, Russia recognizing Palestine, and issues in the South China Sea. Also covered the Persian Team in the Middle East and South America for 10 minutes.

Continuation of the Middle East: went over the different teams in the Middle East.

Continued with the Middle East: Israel, the different ethnic groups, and knowing which leaders were Arab or not, and Sunni and Shia.

Continued with the Middle East. Covered news stories in the Middle East and South American at first.

Continued with the Middle East, and started on how Israel came to be.

Topics covered: Rio + 20, Yemen, Evo Morales, Middle East, oil, sunni, shia, islam, Iran, Saharan Desert

Wrapped up Europe and moved on to the Middle East region

Continued with Europe - WW II till now

Prof Boyer went over news for the first 30 minutes - G20 meeting, Rio + 20 & Ahmadinejad. Continued with Europe as well.

Started on the Europe region. (Updated file on 6-17 with full lecture)

Continued with Europe

Finished up economic systems

Ecocomic systems continued

Started with news on Spain having economic issues and other European news. Then went to economic systems.

Prof Boyer went over current event news for the whole class. FYI the video was cut off for the first 5 minutes of Q&A on some of the assignments. The atlas quizzes are graded by a scale and you must take all of the quizzes to get any points at all. The atlas quizzes will not be graded and add in till after they close on July 27. If you do all 13 weekly quizzes the extra 10 points will not be added till after the quizzes close on July 27.

Professor Boyer wrapped up the lecture on heads of state.

Prof Boyer continued the lecture on the heads of state. (now with last 15 minutes of lecture working)

Today Professor Boyer covered head of states. Here is the link to the clip shown at the beginning of class http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvKIWjnEPNY

Continued covering the types of government and where you can find them throughout the world.

Covered the types of government and where you can find them throughout the world.

Topics covered - continuation of modern day sovereignty issues and started on types of government.

Prof Boyer continued with the states lecture giving specific examples of nations without states and examples of sovereignty tested.

Topic covered in today lecture include: 6-party talks, North Korean situation, missile launches, MAD, UN in Korea, sovereignty since WWII, nation-state, Kurdish nation

Prof Boyer went over the United Nations and its council members. Also, genocide, p5, p5+1, and sovereignty.

updated 5-23

In this lecture, Prof Boyer covers: the regions as define for class, what is a state and nation, and what defines a state. He also starts to cover sovereignty.

Professor Boyer goes over the syllabus in detail. (3rd upload - sound lag sound be fixed!)

There were issues recording the Adobe Connect session so please watch this video and the ones listed under #3 on this page http://www.plaidavenger.com/lecture/intro/ to get all of the material covered.