Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tactile Signing
28 Sep 2015
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Political science 1020e lecture #1 - intro. Our goal: to think critically, systematically, in a factually informed way about out social and political world, to develop thinking skill to the things that matter. What is a refugee: somebody who has had to flee their country for persecution or marginalization, in many cases situations of war or conflict people fleeing violence. What obligations do the rest of us have: the geneva convention sets out specific rules but morally is a different question. Why now: the conflict, ex: alan kurdi turkish refugee child who drowned trying to escape the civil conflict in syria. The refugee crisis in europe: europe"s quota plan to take in 160,000, some countries, however, are resisting, hundreds of thousands of refugees to come. Three types of questions: descriptive: how things are, what are the facts, ex. How many refugees are there in the world: explanatory: why things are this way, ex, normative:
