A-200 THE MID-CAREER COURSE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS FOURTH SESSION

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• Publication Date: December 20, 1957
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
A-200 THE MID-CAREER COURSE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Fourth Session
September 30 - December 20, 1957
DESCRIPTION AND OUTLINE
Objective and Scope
The Mid-Career Course on Foreign Affairs is designed to offer to Foreign Service
Officers of Classes 3 and 4 an opportunity to make a twelve week break away from the
immediate focus of day-to-day operations, during which they may gain perspective for a
mid-career reassessment of the functions of the Foreign Service and of their own roles in
the Service in the formulation and implementation of United States foreign policy.
The course is aimed at two specific endss
(1) to introduce course members to what the Foreign Service Institute considers
the most relevant of current conceptual theories, which may help reporting officers in
evaluating and predicting social behavior of concern to the interests of the United States.
(2) to give to officers who may have spent a large part of their careers abroad
an opportunity to view at close range those domestic influences which most significantly
'affect the formulation of American foreign policy.
The methods used in the Course to accomplish these objectives include lectures and
discussion periods with leaders in pertinent fields of study of endeavor, amply supplemented
by the cross-fertilization of ideas which officers assigned to the course may contribute
from the wide range of their individual background and experience through their active
participation in seminars and discussion panels. Student participation reaches a max-
imum during the two-week period devoted to discussion of case studies in executive man-
agement, and again in the final week of presentation and discussion of individual course
theses.
Plan of Study
The Autumn session of the Mid-Career Course will proceed, immediately after convocation
and introduction to the course and its method, to the Institute's off-site training center
at Front Royal, Virginia. The Executive Management segment of the course, which will
occupy the first two weeks of the session will be conducted at FrontRoyal. During this
part of the course students will participate under FSI faculty guidance in a group of
successive seminars on case studies covering executive management problems in Foreign
Service Operations. The cases range in scope from personnel problems at hardship posts to
complex questions involving substantive political judgements.
On conclusion of the Executive Management phase the course will devote six weeks to a
study of the applicability of such concepts as cultural anthropology, psycho-sociology,
legal-normative theory, Communications theory, and concepts of-Power and its use, as func-
tional tools in analysis and prediction of social movements amongst foreign groups which
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affect United States interests. This phase of the course will consist of lectures and dis-
cussion sessions with prominent academic leaders in these or pertinent other fields, class
seminars under leadership of student discussion panels, and selected daily reading assign-
ments and visual aids bearing directly on the topic under study.
The next four weeks will be devoted primarily to familiarizing the Class with those
domestic influences in the USA which have a significantinfluence on the formulation and
the implementation of US foreign policy. The Class will have opportunities to meet on an
informal basis members of Congress, high-levbl representatives from appropriate areas in
the executive branch of government, leading news correspondents, and departmental special-
ists in certain fields of particular interest, as well as with academic leaders in the *
political, economic, and informational sciences. A feature of this part of the Course will
be a two-day field trip to New York for visits to USUN and UNO Headquarters where the Class
will enjoy briefings by specialists on UN operations and US participation therein.
In the final week of the course students will individually present for class discussion
independent theses in which they will attempt to evaluate a practical aspect of US policy
in terms of one or more of the concepts examined during the earlier part of the Course.
COURSE DIVISION
WEEK
L1A.Z PERIODS
DIRECTION
SUBJECT
Convocation and
I
t
d
ti
1
Sept. 30 1-Lecture
Mr. Harold B. Hoskins,Convocation and Wel-
n
ro
uc
on
Oct. 1
1-Lecture
1-Student
Director, Foreign
Service Institute
Course Chairman
Course Chairman
come to Foreign
Service Institute
Introduction to Scope
and Methods of Course
Introductory Talks by
Talks
Course Members
Executive
Management
1
3
CLASS MOVES TO FRONT ROYAL, VIRGINIA
Oct.2-15 ENTIRE Mr. Saul Moskowitz, Case Studies in Execu-
PERIOD Director Executive tive Management
Management Section,FSI,
and lecturers:
Seminars and
2
Lectures
Elbert G. Mathews, The Executive Task in
Policy Planning Staff, the Foreign Service
Department of State
Professor John Useem,
Michigan State Uni-
versity
Professor William
Y. Elliott
8 Myer Katenbaum
10 Professor W.S.Sayre
The Contributions of
the Social Sciences
to Management
The Organization of
American Foreign
Affairs
The Executive Task in
Government
The Managerial Aspects
of Public Administra-
tion
Techniques of 3 16 1-Lecture Professor D. Scott The Concept of Cul-
Conceptualization, Gilbert, FSI Staff ture as an Evaluating
Evaluation and Tool in Foreign Ser-
vice Reporting
1-Seminar Mr. William E. What is a Nation?
Schaufele, FSI Staff
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COURSE DIVISION WHIZ DATE PZiUODS DIRECTION SUBJECT
Techniques of 3 Oct.17 1-Lecture Professor Gilbert
Conceptualization,
Evaluation and
Prediction(cont)
and Discus- Smith, Dept. of An-
sion Per- thropology and Lin-
iods. guistics, University
of Buffalo
23 1-Lecture Professor Marion J.
Levy, Dept. of Soci-
ology, Princeton
University
24 4-Lecture To be announced
and Dis-
cussion
25 Periods
5 28 2-Lecture Joseph Campbell,
and Discus- Professor,Sarah
sion Periods Lawrence College
29 2-Lecture Professor Campbell
and Discussion
Periods
31 2-Lecture To be announced
and Discussion
Periods
Nov.1 2-Lecture Professor Joseph
and Discus- Campbell
sion Periods
6 Nov-4 4-Lecture To be announced
and Discussion
5 Periods
7 Initial Discussion of Course Papers
8
Bases of Cultural
Change
Modern Communications
and Cultural Differ-
ences
Personality and
Social Structure
Contrasting Effects
of Industrialization
on Cultural Traditions
in China and Japan
Discussion of Lecture
Topic
Social Implications
of the Communications
Theory
Psychological Roots
of Some Cultural
Universals
Status in American
Social Motivations
Psychological Factors
in Social Movements
A Psychological
Analysis of Indian
Society
International Legal
Norms
Individual Equality
Before the Law on an
International Legal
Norm
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COURSE DIVISION WEEK
DATE
PERIODS DIRECTION
Techniques of 7
Nov:ll
4-Lecture To be announced
Conceptualization,
And Discussion
Evaluation and
12
Periods
.Prediction (cont)
13
14
1-Lecture To be announced
and Discussion
Periods
'Significant 8
18
6-Lecture Dr. Thomas I. Cook,
Domestic Influ-
and Discus- Professor of Politi-
ences on US
19
sion Periods cal Science, Johns
Foreign Policy
20
Hopkins University
4-Lecture
and Discus-
Edwin M. Wright, FSI
Staff
x4 9
26
sion Periods
4-Lecture
Joint Chiefs of Staff
and Discussion
Periods
29
30
10
Dec.3
4
5
6
7
Significant
11
10
Domestic Influ-
ences on US Foreign
Policy (cont)
2-Lecture Professor Frederick
and Discus- Harbison, Internation-
sion Periods al Relations Section,
Princeton University
Thanksgiving Day Holiday
1-Lecture To be announced
and Discussion
Period
4-Lecture To be announced
and Discussion
Periods
1-Lecture Member of Congress
and Discussion
Period
4-Lecture Representatives of
and Discus- Central Intelligence
sion Periods Agency
2-Lecture To be announced
and Discussion
Periods
Uses of Power in US
Policy
Historical Interpre-
tations of Social
Behavior
Concept of the Role
of Government in
Modern US Society
Historical Bases of
Western Thought
Analysis of Current
US Military Capabili-
ties
Management and Labor
Problems in Economic
Development
Influences of Special
Interest Groups on US
Foreign Policy Formu-
lation and Implement-
ation
US Policy and Colonial-
ism
Analysis of US Infor-
mation Policy
Congress and Foreign
Policy
US Intelligence Objec-
tives and Techniques
A Correspondent's
View of Influencenes
Affecting U.S.
Foreign Policy
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COURSE DIVISION WEEK DATE PERIODS DIRECTION SUBJECT
Significant 11 Dec. 11 1-Lecture To be announced
Domestic Influ- and Discussion
ences on US Foreign Periods
Policy (cont)
The Policy Planning
Staff and Foreign
Policy Formulation
12 1-Lecture To be announced Role of Presidential
Advisory Groups in US
Foreign Policy Formu-
lation
12 17 Independent Study
18) Presentation of Course Papers
19)
20)
Internationalism and
US Values
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