Course description 
Analysis of International Situations

	Analysis of International Situations	
Department responsible for the course	Institute of History & International Relations
Master Program in Ethnic and Confessional Processes in Modern Era	
Lecturer 	Radmila Ayriyan
rsayriyan@sfedu.ru	
Semester when the course unit is delivered	Autumn semester	
Teaching hours per week	2 	
Level of course unit (for ex., Second cycle – Master level)	Master Level	
ECTS credits	5	
Admission requirements 	•	Programme fundamentals.	
Course objectives (aims)	To study main international conflicts	
Course contents	•	Introduction to International Relations
•	Using main analysis methods	
Learning outcomes	On successful completion of the course, students are expected to be able to:
•	use methods of analysis of international relations;
•	develop possible scenarios of the situation 	
Planned learning activities and teaching methods (for ex., lectures with a variety of examples and practice)	•	Lectures.
•	Supervised practice: analysis of the text.
•	Testing	
Assessment methods and criteria	•	Individual assignments: at least 38 out of 60 maximum score.
- analysis of the article (Russian-American or Russian-Chines relations)
- analysis of the sources about Syrian crisis 
- five-page concept paper (structures of the IR)
•	Written exam: at least 22 out of 40 maximum score.	
Course literature (recommended or required)	•	Handbook of public policy analysis: theory, politics, and methods / edited by Frank Fischer, Gerald J. Miller, and Mara S. Sidney.2007.
•	Krippendorff, Klaus. 2004. Content analysis: An introduction to its methodology. New York: Sage. 
•	Handbook of International Relations. Transnational Actors and World Politics/Edited by: Walter Carlsnaes, Thomas Risse & Beth A. Simmons. 2013