Lesson Plan: Diplomacy
Lesson Plan: Diplomacy
Topic: Key Topics and Contemporary Issues: Diplomacy | |
Week #: 9 | Estimated Time: 150-180 minutes |
Assigned Readings:
Total page count: 29 plus 1 online text (37 pages if all printed)
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Learning Objectives: By the end of this lesson plan, students will be able to:
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Misconceptions of Topic:
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Lesson Component | Ancillary(ies) |
Lecture: Review learning objectives | Lecture slides |
Lecture and discussion: What is diplomacy?
| Reading 1 Lecture slides
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Activity: Evaluating diplomatic immunity | Worksheet 1
Full text of Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (1961): http://legal.un.org/ilc/texts/instruments/english/conventions/9_1_1961.pdf |
Lecture and discussion: Traditional conceptions of diplomacy | Reading 1 Lecture slides |
Think-pair-share: JCPOA | Reading 1 Lecture slides |
Lecture and discussion: Non-traditional conceptions of diplomacy
| Readings 2,3,4,5 Lecture slides
Online resource (embedded in slides): Ministry of Defence Singapore (2016), “ADMM-Plus Maritime Security and Counter-Terrorism Exercise 2016 - ONE” (6:50) URL: |
Diplomacy in action: online video and discussion | Worksheet 2
Online resource: Ted Talk (2009), “An Independent Diplomat” (segment from 8:44 - 20:24) URL: https://www.ted.com/talks/carne_ross_an_independent_diplomat |
Optional: diplomacy simulation | The US State Department provides diplomacy simulations that are free and open access (including expert videos and downloadable student materials): https://diplomacy.state.gov/education/about/class-materials
The Council on Foreign Relations provides case studies through its free Model Diplomacy simulation program: |
Conclude and wrap-up | Lecture slides |