My name is Janicke Stramer-Smith and I'm an assistant professor of Political Science at Weber State University.
I am teaching two courses that I'll talk about today because both courses
have this Model Diplomacy project integrated into them and it's
1010 which is Intro to Political Science and then it's 1100  which
is American National Government. I'm teaching all my courses including these two as
virtual hybrid. We're flipping the classroom so the lectures will be pre-recorded ten to fifteen
minutes long online. And you will have time to digest the material and informed questions and
your mind before you actually get into the classroom and we have discussions
about the topic and concepts of the week—whether it's comparative politics a political violence or
the coronavirus pandemic or the elections coming up. We will be able to
engage in all of those topics in depth using these two formats the
asynchronous online and the in-class Zoom class experience.
So I'm very excited first of all because I get to do this model diploma that I've
always really loved teaching in person. I get to make it more available
by creating an online format. So I look forward to seeing you and I hope that you will
be feeling confident entering this kind of pandemic
world class experience.
