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The Global Conversation Mini Lecture 8 – Spring 2011

by James Skelly on March 16, 2011

This mini-lecture includes a discussion of BCA’s International Student Conference in strasbourg, France, which explored differences in environmental policy between Europe and the United States, as well as the emerging nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan.

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Mini-Lecture #7 has just been posted.  I recommend taking a look at the initiative of Joyce merkel in Learning Circle #2 and Christina Hardin in Learning Circle #3, if you would like to see what proposals for the Learning Circle project might look like – as their actions show, it only takes one person’s initiative to [...]

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The Global Conversation Mini Lecture 6 – Spring 2011

by James Skelly on February 27, 2011

Mini-Lecture #6 has just been posted – you’ll find it in the box for Mini-Lectures at the top left hand side of the course home page.  In the mini-lecture I emphasize the importance of doing the interviews of your colleagues in the Learning Circle, and sketching out a proposed project focus for the Learning Circle project – as I [...]

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The Global Conversation Mini Lecture 5 – Spring 2011

by James Skelly on February 20, 2011

Mini-Lecture #5 has just been posted – but not on YouTube – we’re trying out Vimeo!  Please note that I’ve created a separate space for the mini-lectures near the top left of the course home page. There are a number of matters that I discuss in the mini-lecture, so let me provide some links to these: The [...]

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The Global Conversation Mini Lecture 4 – Spring 2011

by James Skelly on February 14, 2011

Mini-Lecture #4 has just been posted on YouTube, and you can link to it under Theme #6. As I note in the lecture, I am very impressed by the quality of the discussions in the various forums, so if you haven’t joined in yet, please do so! Please also contribute to the two exercises on [...]

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