In a reasonably wide range of regularly scheduled courses at UC Davis, learning is mediated by technology and occurs in collaborative teams. Students work together to build and manage web sites.  The intensive research and writing required of all students also includes individual pieces of work. Work is guided by  explicit, detailed, and demanding guidelines. Typically and deliberately, the work calls on students to locate, assess, and use both on-line and library resources. The work guidelines, as well as research suggestions and commentary, are conveyed to students by e-mail, with all messages archived on a listserve Web site. 

Most instruction occurs in a computer lab with thirty high-end workstations. Despite a large overall class size (N usually = + or - 80), the effective faculty-student ratio never, therefore, exceeds one to thirty. In the Spring Term, 1997, the workstations were loaded with Microsoft FrontPage 97, multiple licenses for which were generously donated by Microsoft, in response to a competitive grant application. In the Fall Term, 1999, Microsoft made a further gift to the Department of Political Science of site licenses for Microsoft Front Page 2000.  This generosity is gratefully acknowledged. 

[For a variety of reasons, one being that the web design looks so dated, student web sites made prior to the Winter Term of 2002 are no longer linked.  Problems archiving webs on the server have rendered other links to student work and to course home pages inactive, but wherever possible the names of the students receiving recognition are still shown.]

Spring Term, 1997: International Law
Summer, 1997: The Internet Guide to California's Legislature  | The Global Interdependence Course Site (more recent version shown)
Fall Term, 1997: California Politics (inactive) | Environmental Administration (inactive)
Winter Term, 1998: Environmental Law
Spring Term, 1998: International Law
Fall Term, 1998: California Politics | Environmental Administration (inactive)
Winter Term, 1999: Environmental Law
Spring Term, 1999: International Law
Fall Term, 1999: Environmental Politics | Environmental Administration (inactive)
Winter Term, 2000: Environmental Law
Spring Term, 2000: International Law (initial collaboration with University of North London)
Fall Term, 2000: Environmental Administration
Winter Term, 2001: Environmental Law
Spring Term, 2001:Environmental Politics | International Law (with UNL)
Fall Term, 2001: Environmental Administration

(see note, above)
Winter Term, 2002: International Law (with UNL) | Environmental Law
Spring Term, 2002: Environmental Politics (Comparative and International Wildlife Law and Policy, with Wil Burns)
Summer, 2002: California Politics (with Kim Alexander)
Fall Term, 2002: Environmental Administration
Winter Term, 2003: Environmental Law  |  International Law
Spring Term, 2003: A Practicum in Diplomacy (with Ambassador Holmes)  |  Environmental Politics

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