Special Topics: Model Un, Ljubljana

This 1 credit course is specifically directed at students who have already completed a first Model UN simulation during their stay at AUR and wish to return to replicate the simulation experience with new incoming students enrolled in the 3 Credit IA 360 course.
Model UN is a practical exercise in critical thinking and analysis, public speaking, and intercultural negotiation and consensus building within the context of international politics and international organizations. Students will represent, support, and defend a selected country’s national interests at a mock conference with a variety of Committee selections: UN, NATO, European Parliament. Students will learn how and be trained to speak clearly and convincingly on selected policy areas, know and use the technical language of the UN and other IOs. Skill building exercises in consensus building, negotiations and communications will complement the public speaking activities as will writing assignments on how to develop talking points, policy position papers and draft UN resolutions in order to master style, form and substance of typical diplomatic and UN documents. The student will exercise and develop learning in a close to real- world organizational setting that brings together actors from all over the world. Students will represent a specific country, as a member of the UN in a Model UN conference simulation at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia between late November and early December 2024 (MUNLAWS).