GENERAL INFORMATION. Check here for additional course-related readings, including readings designed to help you do better on required assignments. Be advised, however, that the information here is NOT meant to be comprehensive or exhaustive. Instead, it is simply meant to give you a starting point and some ideas, especially for the mini-essay assignments. You are ultimately responsible for doing your own research.

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	Stupid in America • For Tuesday, April 8 students are required to read two articles related to our viewing and discussion of John Stossel's Stupid in America. The two readings are available for downloading as PDF files. • What Makes Finnish Kids So Smart (Wall Street Journal) • How They Do It Abroad (Time magazine) • The entire segment of Stupid in America is available to view on this page or on YouTube
	Life and Debt • We will view excerpts from this film midway through the quarter. For more information about the issues discussed in the film, a good place to start is the Links and Info page on the Life and Debt website. For background information on Jamaica specifically, you can find basic information from the CIA World Factbook, which provides economic, demographic, social and political information on all the countries of the world. The entire video can be viewed here.
	Chapter 1: Doing Comparative Politics • Click here to download chapter one from Doing Comparative Politics.

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