Homer's Iliad and modern IR
Moon K.H.S.
2014
Polity
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10.1057/pol.2013.35
The author asserts that a liberal arts approach to teaching International Relations (IR) is a unique way to teach undergraduates and to conduct research that is reflective of and relevant to real-world situations. A liberal arts approach includes interdisciplinarity, a bottom-up method to balance the top-down elite orientation of conventional IR, and data collection that focuses on human beings in real-life, concrete conditions. The article offers specific examples of interdisciplinarity in the classroom, including the use of literature, visual arts, and music, to enrich students' understanding of international relations. © 2014 Northeastern Political Science Association.
foreign policy; interdiscplinary pedagogy; international relations; IR; IR methods; liberal arts
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