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FALL 2015
TSEM 102 - Towson Seminar: World Business Environment and the United States
Prof. Don Kopka, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Management Dept.
Section 001: Monday-Wednesday, 2:00 to 3:15 pm LA 3120
Course web page: http://pages.towson.edu/kopka/towson_seminar.htm
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Contact InformationProfessor Kopka
Management Dept.
Office: ST 114B
Office Hours: Monday – Wednesday - Friday,
11:00 am to 12:00 pm
email: [email protected]
Office phone: 410-704-3234
Cell phone: 410-497-4424
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What is this course about?Considers the World Business Environment and the United States in order to develop students’:
• Understanding of challenges for Americans and American businesses in the World Business Environment
• Critical thinking capabilities• Oral and written communications
capabilities• Appreciation for diverse viewpoints,
values, and cultures• Research capabilities
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To start, a couple of quizzes
Daily show – “Spot the Africa”http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/myb4mb/spot-the-africa
World Awareness Quiz
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What does Professor Kopka do?
Eats Crickets
Drinks Beer
Teaches in Towson, Vietnam, and Panama
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BeginningsSTUDENT INFORMATION SHEET
– What are you interested in learning about the world business environment and the United States?
– What experience do you have writing research papers? (Describe on back of information sheet)
– You MUST have and use a towson.edu email account for this course
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Textbooks
Zakaria, Fareed, The Post-American World, Release 2.0, New York: W. W. Norton, 2011.
Articles from handbook for TSEM 102 Readings, Instructor: Dr. Donald Kopka
Kopka’s Course Web Pagehttp://pages.towson.edu/kopka/towson_seminar.htm
• Go to Kopka’s course web page indicated above for “TSEM –World Business Environment and the United States,” to download, print, read syllabus and course schedule; available by Sunday afternoon, August 30, 2015
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• Syllabus and schedule discussed on Monday August 31, 2015
READINGS• For Monday, August 31, 2015
– Articles in reading handbook:
• “Idea and Value Exchange Worldwide: American Culture in the World,” Margaret J. King and Jamie O’Boyle, Journal of American & Comparative Cultures, March 1, 2002, pp. 1-8.
• “The American Century,” Henry Luce, Life Magazine, 17 February 1941, retrieved January 25, 2015 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6139.htm
• “The Myth of American Exceptionalism,” Stephen M. Walt, Foreign Policy, October 11, 2011.
• Be prepared to answer any of the following quiz questions:
1. Explain each of the four cultures.
2. What are components of American culture?
3. What did Henry Luce mean by “The American Century?”
4. What is the meaning of American Exceptionalism?
5. What are the Myths of American Exceptionalism?9