Hi Rodney,
It was great talking to you. I am very excited about this collaborative partnership.
I just sent an e-mail explaining the project to Nina Belyaeva, Chair of the Department of Public Policy, State University - Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia. I hope to hear from her soon. As I explained, she is currently on sabbatical, so it may take a few days to receive her initial response. I suspect that she will be very interested in this project, but we should wait to see if there are any other constraints or concerns that she has on her end.
But you can go ahead and add our department:
John G. Dale
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
George Mason University
Our course is formally titled, "Human Rights and Inequalities" (SOCI 395), and is cross-listed with our Conflict Analysis and Resolution Program (CONF 399), of which I am also a faculty member.
I will get back to you (hopefully with good news from Nina) ASAP.
Best,
John
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John G. Dale
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology and Anthropology,
Affiliate Faculty for the Institute for Conflict Analysis & Resolution,
Associate Faculty of the Center for Global Studies, and the Center for Justice, Law, and Society
George Mason University
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Coates, Rodney D. Dr." <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thursday, September 16, 2010 1:32 pm
Subject: Process
> Dear Partners:
>
> We are almost at the end of our open enrollment phase. We will
> formally reach our goal when Moscow joins us in the next few days.
> I have yet one more conversation to have with a university in
> eastern (?) Australia that should take place over the next 24
> hours. Right now we have 11 Universities that are committed to
> offering this course in the Spring. By the end of this month we
> will begin to answer and address the technical and logistic
> questions for this course. Antonio has raised a series of
> questions and posed some interesting scenarios to include
> teleconferencing and non-English lectures, advertising and web
> hosting, etc. We shall begin to address these issues shortly.
> There are also some pedagogical issues regarding our syllabus that
> also need to be clarified. All of these will be on the table and
> hopefully solved within the next few weeks.
>
> For now, thanks for helping to make this happen. And, if you are
> wondering we are still open to admitting new Partners. There is no
> upper limit to the number that we can accommodate. Therefore if
> you have someone in mind please reach out to them, if you would
> like me to conduct the conversation let me know.
>
>
> rodney
>
>
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