Lund Debate Society Debate 1 Autumn Semester 2011 Summary Debate 1 is the foundational module for learning how

to engage in academic and competitive discourse which constitutes studying how to explain and engage in scholarly ideas in a persuasive manner. This is why this module focuses on skills training as well knowledge accumulation on a selection of topics. Included in this course are basic lectures on the rules and positions in British Parliamentary debates, the current European standard of debating as well as learning how to construct arguments and refutation of ideas and how to express them effectively; analytical methods in deconstructing academic articles and a basic selection of topics commonly found in tournaments will be taken up. The first hour will be a lecture on the topic and the next two hours are debate activities. Objectives 1. To be more actively engaged in public discourse. 2. To master the basic roles and positions in competitive debating. 3. To attain foundational knowledge of a selection of basic debate topics. 4. To improve facility with the English language. 5. To introduce and learn analytical methods in discourse. Topics Topic Sub-topics A. Individual Freedom Types of rights and State Limits of rights Interference Oct 11 - 18 B. The Social Contract Oct 25 Nov 1 C. Democracy and Minorities Nov 8 15, 2011 D. Globalisation Nov 22 - 29 State Paternalism Social capital Institutions Affirmative Action

Migration Culture

E. The Economy Dec 6 - 13

Economic integration Financial institutions

Suggested Motions 1. THW ban gay marriage 2. THW impose a fat tax in Sweden 3. THB the state should subsidize hymen reconstruction surgery 4. THW allow surrogacy for profit 1. THW fund the arts 3. THB travel is a right 4. THW privatize prisons 1. THW give two votes to the poor 2. THB only women should be able to join the army and make up the top echelons. 1. THB the ubiquity of American TV is a form of neo-imperialism. 2. THW grant asylum based on economic depravity. 1. THW kick Greece out of the Eurozone. 2. THW elect a World Bank and IMF president from the 3rd World.

Schedule of Skills Training 1

Sessions 1. Basic Positions and Rules in BP setting up a proper debate 2. Setting up a proper debate, continued 3. State of Play 4. State of Play, continued 5. Case building and the Quality of Arguments 6. Case building and the Quality of Arguments, continued 7. Ways of Attacking

Date and time October 11, 1830 - 2130 October 18 1830 - 2130 October 25 1830 - 2130 November 1 1830 - 2130 November 8 1830 - 2130 November 15 1830 - 2130 November 22 1830 - 2130 November 29 1830 - 2130 December 6 1830 - 2130 December 13 1830 - 2130

Venue EC1 -237 EC1 -237 EC1 -237 EC1 -237 EC1 -237 EC1 -237 EC1 -237

Activities Lecture, debates, video analysis Prime Minister speeches, topic lecture Stop and go debates Stop and go debates Lecture, deconstructing assigned article Debate, applying knowledge from article Yin and yang attacks lecture (the positive and negative case), debate Stop and go debates Stop and go debates Debate

8. Engaging and Refuting the Other Side 9. Engaging and Refuting the Other Side, continued 10. Issue-based summarising

EC1 -237 EC1 -237 EC1 -237

Competitions Tournament Durham IV Oxford IV Date and Venue November 6 -7, 2011, Durham, England November 10 -12, 2011, Oxford, England November 18 -19, 2011, Cambridge, England December 27 Jan 4, 2011, Manila, Philippines Registration Fees 45/team in sterling pounds 100/team in sterling pounds 85/team in sterling pounds 550/person in usd Website http://www.durhamiv.co.uk/ https://www.oxfordiv.com/ or search for Morgan Stanley Oxford IV 2011 on Facebook http://www.cambridgeiv.com/

Cambridge IV

Worlds Universities Debate Championships

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References Module literature combines widely read publications that should be read every day for accumulating facts, and selected journal articles and seminal books on specific topics for some depth of knowledge. Suggested Subscriptions for daily reading: 2

Le Monde Diplomatique The Guardian The Economist International Herald Tribune Atlantic Monthly

Books (Choose 2 to read this semester and over Christmas break) 1. Globalization and its Discontents by Joseph Stiglitz 2. The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama 3. Manufacturing Consent: the Political Economy of the Mass Media by Noam Chomsky 4. The Clash of Civilisations by Samuel Huntington 5. Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam Reading List Schedule A. Individual Freedom and State Interference October 11 18, 2011 http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/political-science/17-01j-justice-spring-2006/lecturenotes/possessive_liber.pdf http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/political-science/17-01j-justice-spring-2006/lecturenotes/mill_on_liberty.pdf B. The Social Contract October 25 November 1, 2011 Rousseau, J. and G.D.H Cole. The Social Contract. Putnam, Robert (1993) Bowling Alone, Chapter 1-5, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. C. Democracy November 8 15, 2011 The Quality of Government Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, Andrei Shleifer, Robert Vishny Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, Vol. 15, No. 1, JLEO Bureaucracy Conference (Apr., 1999), pp. 222-279 Cockburn, Cynthia 2010. Gender Relations as Causal in Militarization and War. In International Feminist Journal of Politics 2010, vol. 12, No 2, pp. 139-157. ISSN 14684470 (18 pp. Electronic via LibHub) Lott, J and L. Kenny [1999], "How Dramatically Did Women's Suffrage Change the Size and Scope of Government", Journal of Political Economy 107, 11631198. JSTOR

D. Globalisation 3

November 22 29, 2011 Joseph Stiglitz, Globalisation and its Discontents, Ch. 1-6, 1998. New York, New York. De Genova, Nicholas P. Migrant "illegality" and deportability in everyday life Annual Review of Anthropology Vol. 31: 419-447, October 2002. Arturo Escobar, Power and Visibility: Development and the Invention and Management of the Third World, Cultural Anthropology, Vo. 3, No. 4, 1988

E. The Economy December 6 13, 2011 The Future of the IMF and the World Bank Michael Gavin, Dani Rodrik The American Economic Review, Vol. 85, No. 2, Papers and Proceedings of the Hundredth and Seventh Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association Washington, DC, January 6-8, 1995 Fiscal Discipline and Policy coordination in the Euro-zone by J. Pisani http://www.cepii.org/anglaisgraph/communications/pdf/2002/211102/pisani-ferry.pdf