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What was new, different and exciting about the content?
Did you teach well?
Did students learn what you set out for them to learn?

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-M2
-topics covered, cases, past-present-future, global context and comparative
-flip classroom, discussion-based
-Give everyone voice, choice about readings and assignments and ownership for the course

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-learning by teaching
-think, grouping and share
-sharpening communication skills ( discussion leaders, debate, poster presentation)
--a variety of writing formats (op-ed, critical review, debate integration, final group project)

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i.e.: readings, assignments, activities, projects, things you like or dislike.....

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i.e.: readings, assignments, activities, projects, things you like or dislike.....

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It's important to understand the role of culture in policy to better understand why China does what it does. Also, how China is in this political power for the long game and slowly and steadily gaining influence and power on the global front.

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Having a much more holistic international and domestic understanding of China as it rises to power. This course has rounded much of the understanding for why China is China and how it views the world. 

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Having a much more holistic international and domestic understanding of China as it rises to power. This course has rounded much of the understanding for why China is China and how it views the world. 

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China is an important key player in global political relations, social issues, and environmental impacts. The way China's policies and politics develop affects the whole world.

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I began knowing very little about China, and now understand its relationships with and impacts on many regions of the world, like Africa and Latin America. One of my goals was to learn more about China's environmental impacts and policies and I was able to explore this topic in multiple projects. One of my other goals was to learn something entirely new which I was able to do with our discussion leader topic. So in the end, I feel like I have learned something new as well as expanded my knowledge both regionally and topically in the field I mainly study.

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I started this course knowing nothing to very little about China. It was fascinating to learn the history of China, how that history has helped shape China what it is today, and the influences of Confucius in policy and life. I know feel like I know more about the reasoning behind China's policy decisions such as the BRI and stance towards Taiwan. In the future, I now know to look at China in a different light and see how it is playing the global power game.

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I am grateful to have learned about Chinese history through the rise of the BRI. China has been very strategic in the way they have applied its resources through famine and now they are poised to become the world superpower

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I now have such an appreciation for domestic Chinese policy. But still complicated^

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I now have such an appreciation for domestic Chinese policy. But still complicated^

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It would be nice to visit China. Yet I know this is something that would have to be in the future.....waaay out in the future because ya know, Covid and such

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International is a Matter of Perspective

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International is a Matter of Perspective

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by which I mean, the connections between domestic (poverty, local govt), "domestic" (Taiwan, HK, surveillance) and international issues (trade, global governance) really stood out to me in this course and I appreciated seeing the way they influenced one another and overlapped

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I learned so many new aspects of China's history and structure

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I learned so many new aspects of China's history and structure

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China shouldn't be underestimated, and there needs to be a foreign policy to better communicate with China.

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China shouldn't be underestimated, and there needs to be a foreign policy to better communicate with China.

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Match up the college class time to align with MIIS time

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Match up the college class time to align with MIIS time

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are just small assignments / discussion facilitation and not an end of year project? The timing was just hard to collaborate with

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Began: frustrated because it felt like an undergraduate history class
Evolved: extremely interesting and engaging
Ended: frustrated again because group projects

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I enjoyed the wide range of assignments/readings/topics; it was a good opportunity to shift gears from the usual focus on long papers and academic journal articles.

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Liked the collaboration with Middlebury in terms of the domestic/international perspective on China, and Middlebury students were bright and fun to work with, though (1) the first half hour of class without them seemed like not the best use of time, and (2) the final poster with them would have been enough for a collaborative deliverable. 

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Liked the collaboration with Middlebury in terms of the domestic/international perspective on China, and Middlebury students were bright and fun to work with, though (1) the first half hour of class without them seemed like not the best use of time, and (2) the final poster with them would have been enough for a collaborative deliverable. 

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The CCP and the special role of Xi Jinping

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The CCP and the special role of Xi Jinping

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It was interesting to see how the CCP has consolidated power for decades, functioning like a rigid bureaucracy, and yet how Xi Jinping is changig the power structures, adding his own note to leadership style and the future of the country

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Chinese role in the evolving international financial market

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-would have appreciated a better alignment with the Midd students' schedule (start/end class at same time)
-topic intro lecture on Tues, discussion on Thurs would have flowed better in my opinion
-I had a good collaboration experience with Midd, but my group also struggled with scheduling meetings across time zones/schedules; maybe if we had a longer collaboration window?

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Chinese surveillance state and its nuances; the social credit system is often misunderstood in the Western world

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Chinese surveillance state and its nuances; the social credit system is often misunderstood in the Western world

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The paradox of significant domestic challenges and enormous global ambitions

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-to start with, I was a little :/ about the hyper-current events focus, kind of dubious about how much we could get meaningful analysis out of it
-really pleased with it in practice though!
-I feel really prepared to work on China-related issues (esp from a US/west perspective) post-graduation

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Always motivated but not always able to keep up with the reading assignments

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Always motivated but not always able to keep up with the reading assignments

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Still: great discussion sessions; super interesting presentations and I always learned something out of every session

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I liked the pick-and-choose nature of the course, there were topics I found more interesting and related to my own research interests, and I had the opportunity to go deeper in them. And then there were topics that felt totally new that I never would have sought out on my own, and I got to learn about them. I liked the socio-historical framing of the whole class at the beginning, I thought that was a really important foundation for the class. And I liked the questions we got to choose from for the final project.

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Every move is done for a reason....

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- having three different deliverables for the final project is a lot

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Something that has stuck with me is how the west has tried to put economic pressure on China, which I vaguely knew about, but I didn't know about how successfully China has been able to develop other partnerships and supply chains to be even more successful. I also knew next to nothing about the BRI projects in developing nations and how their economic relations with China grow stronger while the west withholds investment and aid as political pressure on illiberal regimes

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If you're going to do a debate again, each debate needs at least an hour to make it worth while. The extreme brevity of the debates made them very surface level

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Reading material and Discussion questions sometimes didn't match perfectly 

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Reading material and Discussion questions sometimes didn't match perfectly 

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It would be nice to have the discussion section be mixed with Midd students. I know scheduling would be hard but it would be nice to have all of thursday time with the Midd students instead of that hour lag

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I appreciate all of the work that went into the design of this course. I liked the discussion sections with class leaders. However, the class leaders probably did not need to do all of the readings AND write a summary of all the readings AND prepare a presentation.

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The final video is repetitive of the presentation. In my opinion, we do not need to do the video as we already have our recorded presentation.