Pardee Students Present Visual Policy Memos in Poster Sessions
Students at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University taking IR 350 “History of International Relations since 1945” made team-led poster presentations on December 4, 2018 in class as part of their final assignment.
Each poster presentation was the visual representation of a policy memo that the team had crafted to solve a current policy problem using the historical information covered in class.
Each team, comprising of 4-5 undergraduate students across the four years, presented for five to seven minutes to Jayita Sarkar, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Pardee School, and two teaching fellows Sean Case (AmNes PhD candidate) and Johnathan Williams (History PhD candidate).
A second session was held on December 6, 2018, with Pardee School Professors of the Practice Amb. Robert Loftis and Amb. Vesko Garcevic stopping by to view the posters.
This innovative final assignment in the required undergraduate principal course, IR350, is the first of its kind, and representative of the policy-focused historical analysis that the Pardee School undertakes in curriculum development, student training and faculty research. The course, IR350, is a long-standing course of the Pardee School currently taught by Sarkar. She will be offering “History, Policy and Statecraft” (IR539) to graduate and undergraduate students in 2019-20.
Jayita Sarkar, an historian by training, is Assistant Professor of International Relations at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies. Her expertise is in the history of U.S. foreign policy, nuclear proliferation, the global Cold War, South Asia and Western Europe. Her research has appeared or is forthcoming in the Journal of Cold War Studies, Journal of Strategic Studies, Cold War History, International History Review, and elsewhere. Dr. Sarkar has held fellowships at MIT, Harvard, Columbia and Yale universities, and obtained a doctorate in International History from the Graduate Institute Geneva in Switzerland.