above B+. The average final grade that I gave out in this course was B, much higher than for most courses I teach.
Students ranged in age from 18 to 24. Six were female; fourteen were male. Three were minorities.
16
I require reading of Negotiating a Complex World as well as the simpler, Getting to Yes by Roger
Fisher et al. Other interesting possibilities include Raymond Cohen’s Negotiating Across Cultures
and Fisher et al’s Coping with International Conflict.
17
ICONSNET makes it easy to pull out permutations and combinations of simulation messages which
when formulated are tagged according to issue area.
18
Since that time about 150 universities located in some 35 countries have become involved (Starkey, Boyer and
Wilkenfeld 2005, p. xii).
19
Interview of language professor by author, Poughkeepsie, NY, 12 January 14, 2006.
20
Language students are under constant stress to translate many messages in a timely fashion during the five weeks of the
simulation. The instructor is under pressure to make sure translations are done correctly.
21
For still other pioneers in using simulations in international politics see Starkey, Boyer and Wilkenfeld,
pp. 153-154.
22
There is some evidence, for example, that in America students whose native language is not English perform better in
virtual classrooms than in traditional ones (Ehrmann 1999).
Convention