NO105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Robert Pastor, North American Free Trade Agreement, Continentalism
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What was this course trying to do: provide you, as first year students, with opportunities to develop university level skills (ex. Reading, writing, research, and collaboration: convey and expose students to the fundamental themes important to north american. Studies: foster a more democratic and smaller learning venue by combining online and (active learning) classroom work, resulting in an alternative / transformative approach to learning in a university course. There are 5 questions on the final exam each course theme has. 5 course themes / 1 approach: perception and misperception, convergence and divergences (in what way the countries/ themes are the same/ different, ex. How nafta affected mexican farmers: national identity (how it changes through the countries) Note the interdisciplinary" approach this course takes to each of the course themes. Draw out evidence from all the works and connect the five themes of the course.
