Teaching
Teaching
NB.All teaching material for autumn semester 2011 has been moved to moodle. Log on to moodle with your basic user account and find the NAM-courses from there
The courses include:
Introduction to North American Studies,
Fridays 9-11,
Place:
28.10. PINNI B 1096
04.11. PINNI B 1097
11.11. LINNA K-103
18.11. LINNA K-103
25.11. LINNA K-103
02.12. LINNA K-103
09.12. LINNA K-103
16.12. LINNA K-103
Game Theory
Wednesday 10-12 Pinni B 3116
Dictatorship and Democracy Seminar
Tuesday 10-12 Pinni B 3116
Past Courses
Guest lecture workshop on Afghanistan
Thursdays 14-16, first session 3rd of February
Place: Pinni B, seminar room B3076
Ethnic Conflict
Introduction to American Studies
US Health Care: Probelems and Potential
Native Voices: New Perspective to Native Cultures and History
Students may contact the teacher by e-mail: rani-henrik.andersson@helsinki.fi
Guidelines for the final essay
Lecture slides
The Great Basin and California
Readings
Mourning Dove. A Salishan Autobiogtaphy, ed Miller Jay
(This book is available as an e-book in the TAMCAT system)
Teaching and material from 2009-2010
Introduction to American Politics
Methodology (NAM 9) Wednesdays 12-14
Pro Seminar in North American Studies (NAM 10) Wednesdays 10-12
(see link to syllabus below)
Introduction to American Studies
Crime and Criminal Policy in the US
Congress in US Politics
Class readings marked as "NAM-office" will be outside of Prof.Krasno's office B 2091
Class readings marked as NAM-office will be outside of Prof.Krasno's office B 2091
Pro Seminar in North American Studies
Campaigns and Elections Seminar
A GUEST LECTURE SERIES
Global Transformations: Current Issues in North American, European, and
International Politics (2ECTS)
Period I-II, 2009
Day & Time: Thursdays 16:00-18:00
Good for: NAM-8B, HISOA2 (Students who are not using the course for NAM or History, should negotiate with their departments about cross-listing)
This seminar is a guest lecture series designed to give students an overview of
important issues in today’s world, presented by experts. Particular themes addressed
in the course include: foreign policy, the environment, the economy, the welfare state,
China, the United States, and the European Union. Students are expected to attend
the course, participate in the discussions, and to write lecture diaries on each of the
lectures. Grades for the seminar are 30% for attendance and 70% for lecture diaries.
Lectures, dates and places
24 September: Raimo Väyrynen, Current Economic Crisis and Transatlantic Relations
Place: Pinni B 3116
29 October: Jonathan Krasno, Political Parties and the Shrinking Field of Play in U.S. House Elections
Place: Auditorium Paavo Koli, Pinni A
5 November: Charly Salonius-Pasternak, Obama's War: Choices in Afghanistan
Place: Place: Auditorium Paavo Koli, Pinni A
12 November: Matti Nojonen, Sino-US Strategic Dependency and Competition
Place: Auditorium Paavo Koli, Pinni A
19 November: Sixten Korkman, The Welfare State and the Global Crisis
Place: Pinni B 3116
