Hahaha... yeah... it's a little... um, complicated, as you probably have guessed. 0.o Not what you usually find as a major. *laughs*
It's basically about understanding world affairs-- not just politics or military force but also other items of interest such as the environment, human rights, economic development, terrorism, and most importantly the many different views of humankind and why they do what they do (for example, instead of just focusing on the politics of a government, we also focus on the people who run them and why people hate them so much, etc.). The major I'm in also analyzes measures that should or shouldn't be taken to solve these issues, or how to maintain already solved problems from a global-"friendly" perspective.
Like a... political science major meets philosophy meets psychology meets behaviorial sciences...? 0.o There's more to it, but that's it in a nutshell.
Phew, what a mouthful. But the most summarized description I've ever given. <.< *laughs* Err... what else? Oh, the thing I love about this major is how interestingly different it is. You know how usually classes try to be as unbiased as possible when teaching a course? International Security & Conflict Resolution has classes where they do the exact opposite. Like... for example, in one of the classes under the major, one of the projects is to *plan* a terrorist attack. For grading, they actually bring in guests from the FBI, and the students discuss their plans in front of them.
Some of the things students came up with were really insane (and I hope you don't mind me ranting about it), like... we have this really high and long bridge in the city where I live in that stretches across a strait of sorts for about a mile, and the students planned a strategy that involved stealing a bus full of children and bringing it to the middle of the bridge. They block off each side of the bridge and it's so high and isolated, they would be able to see who's coming from either side, underneath, or even above the bridge (helicopters). Then, they would send in some call demanding what they want, and every hour it's not given, they kill a child. x_x Isn't that so... psychologically crazy? When the group told the FBI guys this plan, the FBI representative's answer to solve it was "...In all honesty, we're glad you're on our side."
It's the 'in order to understand the enemy, you have to be the enemy' quote put into practice. That's what I really like about this major. It's unique and it's never a boring day.
thanks for your brief intro about this. It's actually very interesting since you aren't looking at only one aspect of thing but to just look around and think how things happen. That's pretty interesting. Probably if I were younger, I would have chosen to study this than just regular political science (well, not that I am very old but this wasn't my choice back then anyway - heheh)
P.s. you've got quite classmates there, I hope you aren't one of those killing children team!
Hahaha... yeah... it's a little... um, complicated, as you probably have guessed. 0.o Not what you usually find as a major. *laughs*
It's basically about understanding world affairs-- not just politics or military force but also other items of interest such as the environment, human rights, economic development, terrorism, and most importantly the many different views of humankind and why they do what they do (for example, instead of just focusing on the politics of a government, we also focus on the people who run them and why people hate them so much, etc.). The major I'm in also analyzes measures that should or shouldn't be taken to solve these issues, or how to maintain already solved problems from a global-"friendly" perspective.
Like a... political science major meets philosophy meets psychology meets behaviorial sciences...? 0.o There's more to it, but that's it in a nutshell.
Phew, what a mouthful. But the most summarized description I've ever given. <.< *laughs* Err... what else? Oh, the thing I love about this major is how interestingly different it is. You know how usually classes try to be as unbiased as possible when teaching a course? International Security & Conflict Resolution has classes where they do the exact opposite. Like... for example, in one of the classes under the major, one of the projects is to *plan* a terrorist attack. For grading, they actually bring in guests from the FBI, and the students discuss their plans in front of them.
Some of the things students came up with were really insane (and I hope you don't mind me ranting about it), like... we have this really high and long bridge in the city where I live in that stretches across a strait of sorts for about a mile, and the students planned a strategy that involved stealing a bus full of children and bringing it to the middle of the bridge. They block off each side of the bridge and it's so high and isolated, they would be able to see who's coming from either side, underneath, or even above the bridge (helicopters). Then, they would send in some call demanding what they want, and every hour it's not given, they kill a child. x_x
Isn't that so... psychologically crazy? When the group told the FBI guys this plan, the FBI representative's answer to solve it was "...In all honesty, we're glad you're on our side."
It's the 'in order to understand the enemy, you have to be the enemy' quote put into practice. That's what I really like about this major. It's unique and it's never a boring day.
<.< That was really long. *laughs*
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P.s. you've got quite classmates there, I hope you aren't one of those killing children team!
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