I won a research/teaching assistantship during graduate school. Eventually, the university literally gave me the keys to the classroom. I designed two undergraduate introductory political science courses. These include Introduction to Comparative Politics and Introduction to International Politics (International Relations Theory).
Below, you can find YouTube series documenting the courses I designed. Each module ran three hours in class (50 minutes for each part); however, I have significantly shortened the modules to around sixty minutes (20 – 30 minutes per part).
International Relations Theory
- Introduction to Me – 29 Apr. 2019
Part I: The Ingredients of World Politics
Module 1: From Lucy to Me
- Part 1 of 3: The Origins of Human Organization – 14 Feb. 2022
- Part 2 of 3: The Empire – 16 Feb. 2022
- Part 3 of 3: The Loss of Empires, Creating Anarchy – 19 Feb. 2022
Module 2: Creating the Modern World
- Part 1 of 3: Inventing International Relations – 21 Feb. 2022
- Part 2 of 3: Challenges to the Westphalian System – 23 Feb. 2022
- Part 3 of 3: An Overview of Three International Relations Theories – 25 Feb. 2022
Module 3: Realism: The Science in Political Science
- Part 1 of 3: The Elements and Issues of Realist Theory
- Part 2 of 3: Struggling with Realism
- Part 3 of 3: Applying Realism: Real-World Examples
Module 4: Liberalism
Module 5: Constructivism
Module 6: Post-Modernism
Module 7: Feminism in International Relations
Part 2: Theory in Practice
Module 8: Applying International Relations Theory to Nuclear Proliferation
Part 3: Instruments of World Politics
Module 9: International Law and Human Rights
Module 10: Decision-Making
Part 4: The Future of World Order
Module 11: Varieties of World Order
Module 12: New Distributions of Power
Module 13: The End of History and the Clashes of Civilizations
Ryan M. Nixon 