International course

This short course organized by the Council of Europe may be of interest to someone
Call for participants for the Training course for young online activists

Thank you!

Hi
just to thank you all for having completed the feedback form for me, and also for all your hard work on the blog project and the course this year.
I also wanted to encourage you with your blog writing, to carry on your blogs or set up new ones, it's great for your English and maybe for your careers too!
I was just contacted by an ex-student, Alessia, who wrote a blog for her English assessment from Costa Rica where she was working then. She has now set up another blog danordasudparliamone (ok it's in Italian though!) which has attracted a lot of media attention
Please,  keep me updated on your blogging activity if you do carry on. It's also a great idea if you are going abroad on Erasmus to keep a blog.
So.... keep up the good work!

Francesca

Interviews and feedback form

As I said today in class, you can sign up for your individual oral interviews in January when we will discuss your work. Just write your name and surname and indicate what day and time you want to come.
If you would like me to correct all of your work, you should give me a printout of your blog posts and comments. You can leave this for me in my pigeon hole in the department in via del Santo 77, or bring it to me when you come for your interview and I will give it back to you later, either during my office hours or when you come to register your marks.

I'd also be grateful if you could take the time to complete an ANONYMOUS feedback form on the course, to help me plan for next year.

Have a good holiday, and see you in January.

Francesca

No lesson today, reminder!

As I told you last week in class, there will be no lesson today, next lesson tomorrow 18th December.

Internships, cover letters ...

I've seen from a lot of your comments about the Future of Political and Social Sciences that one of the main issues you have is that of internships and career opportunities, with which you feel that the university does not help you a great deal. At the beginning of the course some of you had also asked me to do a lesson on writing good cover letters to support your applications for jobs. So this week, as well as discussing education we will also look at cover letters and brainstorm on what kind of support you would find useful.

University of Kent has an excellent university website providing advice for graduates on writing cvs, cover letters, online application forms.
iHipo This is a useful website with links to international internships and jobs, and also advice on cv and coverletter writing
Wikihow has advice on How to write a letter of Intent
Eurodesk is one of the sites recommended by the You (th)in Motion group blog, amongst the many useful resources they have found for you all.

Here are some internships which I have recently seen advertised
ILO internships
ECAS - European Citizen Action Service


Imagine you are writing a cover letter to apply for the following internship at the Coalition for the International Criminal Court.

Global Voices Talk

Here are the slides from the talk we had on Global Voices on Thursday 6th December

 

Presentazione gv 06 dic2012(1) from Francesca Helm

More on the Future of Political Sciences

Here are some resources so you can learn more about some of the speakers who will be at the Future of Political Sciences Conference (if you are not already familiar with them).

Jan Aart Scholte
Jan Aart Scholte is Professor in PAIS and Professorial Research Fellow in the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation (CSGR) at the University of Warwick. He is also Academic Lead of the University's Global Research Priorities in Global Governance. His main research covers globalisation, global governance, civil society in global politics, and global democracy.



Lynn Mario de Souza
A Brazilian educator who has worked in many educational projects, including Learning to Read the world through Other Eyes (TOE). Based on postcolonial and poststructuralist theories, TOE focuses on indigenous knowledge systems as epistemologies (or ways of knowing) that offer different ontological choices (or choices related to the ways we see reality and being) to those of the so-called ‘Western’ mainstream cultures.  

Derrick Cogburn
Derrick Cogburn is Associate Professor of International Relations at the School of International Service at American University. In addition, he is Senior Scientist and Chief Research Director at the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University.
He has written a lot about globally disrtributed learning collaborative learning and is director of COTELCO,
The Center for Research on Collaboratories and Technology Enhanced Learning Communities. He has also set up the Institute for Disability and Public Policy in Thailand.

Saskia Sassen

Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
Co-Chair Committee on Global Thought, Columbia UniversitySaskia Sassen's research and writing focuses on globalization (including social, economic and political dimensions), immigration, global cities (including cities and terrorism), the new technologies, and changes within the liberal state that result from current transnational conditions.

 Or if you'd prefer to read here is an interview on the same topic.