Plan for the Semester

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Week 1
28 February
 4 March
3:10-4pm
 Lecture: Introduction to the Course
 Lecture: Ethnicity, Nation and Identity
4:10-5pm
 No tutorial first week
 No workshop first week

Week 2
7 March
 11 March
3:10-4pm
 Lecture: Diversity in Empires & Colonial States
 Lecture: Contemporary Choices for Managing Diversity
4:10-5pm
 Tutorial 1: Introductions
 Workshop: Finding research sources and resources, Justin Cargill, VUW Library.

Week 3
14 March
 18 March
3:10-4pm
Lecture: The Integrationist Approach – Turkey, France
 Lecture: The Integrationist Approach – Turkey, France
4:10-5pm
 Tutorial 2: Choices for Managing Diversity
 Workshop: Integrationist Approach

Week 4
21 March
 25 March
3:10-4pm
 Guest speaker: Ambassador of France (formerly: Director, Ministry of Immigration and National Identity)
 Lecture: Executive & Legislative Power Sharing – case studies: Lebanon, Belgium
4:10-5pm
 Lecture: Executive & Legislative Power Sharing –consociational theory
 Workshop: Guest Speaker tbc.

Week 5
28 March
 1 April
3:10-4pm
 Lecture: Executive & Legislative Power Sharing – case study: Northern Ireland
 Lecture: Executive & Legislative Power Sharing – case study: Northern Ireland
4:10-5pm
 Tutorial 3: Executive & Legislative Power Sharing
 Workshop: Executive & Legislative Power Sharing

Week 6
4 April
 8 April
3:10-4pm
 In-class Test
 Electoral Systems – tools in divided societies
4:10-5pm
 No tutorial
 Workshop: Essay planning, researching and writing.

Week 7
11 April
15 April
3:10-4pm
 Lecture: Political Decentralization – Canada, United Kingdom, Bosnia
 Lecture: Political Decentralization – Canada, United Kingdom, Bosnia
4:10-5pm
 Tutorial 4: Electoral systems
 No workshop
Essay proposal due April 15, 5pm

Easter Break


Week 8
2 May
 6 May
3:10-4pm
 Lecture: Political Decentralization – Canada, United Kingdom, Bosnia
 Lecture: Political Decentralization – Canada, United Kingdom, Bosnia
4:10-5pm
 Tutorial 5: Political decentralization
 Workshop – tbc.

Week 9
9 May
 13 May
3:10-4pm
 Lecture: Partition & Secession – Bosnia, Canada
Lecture: Partition & Secession – Bosnia, Canada
4:10-5pm
 Tutorial 6: Political decentralization – case studies
 No workshop
Remember - essay due Fri May 13, 5pm!

Week 10
16 May
 20 May
3:10-4pm
 Lecture: Economic Measures, Preferential Policies and Quotas
 Lecture: Economic Measures, Preferential Policies and Quotas
4:10-5pm
 Tutorial 7: Partition and secession
 Guest speaker: Dr Andrew Ladley, Constitution building & conflict resolution; Senior Expert on UN Mediation Expert Team

Week 11
23 May
 27 May
3:10-4pm
 Lecture: Constitutional design – What is in the institutional tool box?
Lecture: Constitutional design – What are the limits to institutional engineering?
4:10-5pm
 Tutorial 8: Preferential policies and quotas
 Workshop: Test preparation

Week 12
30 May
 3 June
3:10-4pm
 Lecture: Divided societies and the international community – advice, monitoring, intervention?
 FINAL TEST – 2 HOURS, CLOSED BOOK
4:10-5pm
 Workshop: Test preparation