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Here’s another performance or rendition of my basic talk about the University College program. This is the early show from the second Freshman Day, and like the previous version it also includes the q&a session that immediately followed the presentation.

As usual, this is an “enhanced podcast” .m4a file, so you’ll need to download it and play it in iTunes or QuickTime Player.

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Almost the end of the series! Here’s lecturelet 12, which is somewhat about feminism and somewhat about the broader critical-theoretical tradition that it is part of, at least or especially in IR.

My subjective perception was that I talked a bit fast on a couple of these slides. Fortunately, QuickTime has options that you can use to slow down playback, if that’s necessary.

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Here’s a recording — the standard .m4a slides-plus-audio format — of my informational presentation to prospective AU students and their families about the University College program, 17 April 2009 at about 1:15pm. I recorded the q&a that followed the presentation, too; some of the questions are hard to hear, but I tried to remember to repeat the question before I answered it.

This is about an hour long, and I recommend listening to it in iTunes or QuickTime Player, as with most of my podcast channels.

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Based on some class and post-class comments, I decided to whip up a quick supplemental lecturelet on motivational versus intentional explanations. This kind of issue always comes up when one starts delving into constructivist theory, but I don’t think that the explanation I gave in class was sufficient . . . so here’s another attempt.

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Still hovering around 50 minutes. Here’s the eleventh installment in the series; this lecture(let) focuses on realist constructivism, and extends/complements last week’s thoughts on liberal constructivism.

One clarification: the “social construction” / “not social construction” fractal is not a replacement for the 2×2 that arranges realism, liberalism, liberal constructivism, and realist constructivism as ideal-typical combinations of commitments; that said, the fractal might be the analytical engine driving the debates. You decide.

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Looks like I am stuck on the 48-49 minute length for the moment. Here’s lecture(let) 10, on constructivism, particualrly the more liberal variety. In this lecturelet and the next one I aim to give some sense of how the constructivist turn has interacted with realist and liberal approaches; this week I spend more time on constructivism in general so that we all get the basic logic down, and next week I will talk more in detail about what I see as the realist/liberal contrast within constructivism.

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