International Politics in the New Century - via Simulation, Interactive Gaming, and 'Edutainment'

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Visualizing data. (Image courtesy of the National Geophysical Data Center.)

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MIT Course Number

17.914

As Taught In

January IAP 2005

Level

Undergraduate

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Course Description

This workshop is designed to introduce students to different perspectives on politics and the state of the world through new visualization techniques and approaches to interactive political gaming (and selective 'edutainment'). Specifically, we shall explore applications of interactive tools (such as video and web-based games, blogs or simulations) to examine critical challenges in international politics of the 21C century focusing specifically on general insights and specific understandings generated by operational uses of core concepts in political science.

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Nazli Choucri. 17.914 International Politics in the New Century - via Simulation, Interactive Gaming, and 'Edutainment'. January IAP 2005. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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