Design Tech Model United Nations
International Studies: Debate and Diplomacy
IS: D&D is a social studies course that serves as a rigorous blend of language arts,
communications, international affairs, diplomatic relations, and social studies.
The course philosophy is multidimensional with historical significance and contemporary relevance, capitalizing
on multicultural themes and the breadth of news/sources available to us.
Students will seek to think critically, support claims with textual evidence, and see the difference in
perspective that resolution and position paper writing creates alongside the transformative
experience debate and delegate corroboration fosters.
Course Objectives
- Lens & Perspective: Learn to be empathetic, critical, and impartial thinkers and writers
depending on the world event, international issue, crisis, or topic at hand. Become a global citizen.
- Research In-Depth: What are the essential questions and the endured understandings?
Formulate questions, create a research plan, cast the net wide, hone in on what information is needed for
writing vs. information for conference and conversation, and organize your research in a way that sticks for
YOU!
- Oral Communication and Public Speaking: Learn basic principles of communication. Gain
confidence in using your voice to communicate and defend evidence-based arguments. Gain strategies for the
various kinds of speaking you will do in committee (moderated vs. unmoderated; opening statements vs. delegate
conversation). Determine when to step up and step back: is their meaning and value behind what you have to
say?
Units Covered
Covered throughout the year in no particular order
- d.Plomacy
- The International Mindset
- Understanding The Contemporary World
- Cultural Geography
- Foundations of Government
- Foundations of Debate