Schedule
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| 1/16 (Mon) | Introduction Gapminder's Human Development Trends 2005. Gapminder's Desktop Application. |
Topic for analytical summary #1 handed out (rubric) (guidelines). |
| 1/18 (Wed) | Prologue: Health, Wealth, and Social Institutions in an Interconnected World Reading Questions. Assorted background reading on the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the World Trade Organization (WTO). |
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| 1/22 (Sun) | Analytical summary #1 due by 12:00pm (noon) via TurnItIn. | |
| 1/23 (Mon) | Prologue: Health, Wealth, and Social Institutions in an Interconnected World |
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| 1/25 (Wed) | Prologue: Health, Wealth, and Social Institutions in an Interconnected World Reading Questions. World Bank, World Development Report 2006: Equity and Development, Overview and Chapter 1. |
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| 1/30 (Mon) | Skepticism About Global Justice (Unit #1) |
Topic for analytical summary #2 handed out (rubric) (guidelines). |
| 2/1 (Wed) | Skepticism About Global Justice Reading Questions. Edwin Curley, Glossary to Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, Chapters XV, XVII, and XVIII. |
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| 2/5 (Sun) | Analytical summary #2 due by 12:00pm (noon) via TurnItIn. | |
| 2/6 (Mon) | Skepticism About Global Justice Reading Questions. Garrett Hardin, “The Feast of Malthus”. Garrett Hardin, “Living on a Lifeboat”. |
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| 2/8 (Wed) | Skepticism About Global Justice Reading Questions. Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom, Chapters 7 and 9. |
Topic for position paper handed out (rubric) (guidelines). |
| 2/13 (Mon) | Skepticism About Global Justice Reading Questions. Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom, Chapters 6 and 8. |
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| 2/15 (Wed) | Libertarian Responses: Negative Duties and Global Resources (Unit #2) Reading Questions. John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, Chapters 1–6. |
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| 2/19 (Sun) | Position paper due by 12:00pm (noon) via TurnItIn. | |
| 2/20 (Mon) | Libertarian Responses: Negative Duties and Global Resources Reading Questions. John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, Chapters 7–9, 11, 13. |
Topic for analytical essay #1 handed out (rubric) (guidelines). |
| 2/22 (Wed) | Libertarian Responses: Negative Duties and Global Resources Reading Questions. Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia, Chapter 7. |
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| 2/27 (Mon) | Libertarian Responses: Negative Duties and Global Resources Reading Questions. Brian Barry, “Humanity and Justice in Global Perspective”. |
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| 2/29 (Wed) | Libertarian Responses: Negative Duties and Global Resources Reading Questions. Thomas Pogge, World Poverty and Human Rights, “General Introduction”. |
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| 3/5, 7 | Spring Break | |
| 3/12 (Mon) | Libertarian Responses: Negative Duties and Global Resources |
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| 3/14 (Wed) | Libertarian Responses: Negative Duties and Global Resources Reading Questions. Mathias Risse, “Do We Owe the Global Poor Assistance or Rectification?” |
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| 3/18 (Sun) | Analytical essay #1 due by 12:00pm (noon) via TurnItIn. | |
| 3/19 (Mon) | Welfare, Humanity, and Human Rights (Unit #3) Reading Questions. The General Assembly of the United Nations, “Universal Declaration of Human Rights”. James Nickel, “Poverty and Rights”. |
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| 3/21 (Wed) | Welfare, Humanity, and Human Rights Reading Questions. Martha Nussbaum, “Women and Equality: The Capabilities Approach”. |
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| 3/26 (Mon) | Welfare, Humanity, and Human Rights Reading Questions. Onora O'Neill, “The Dark Side of Human Rights”. |
Topic for analytical essay #2 handed out (rubric) (guidelines). |
| 3/28 (Wed) | Welfare, Humanity, and Human Rights Reading Questions. Peter Singer, “Famine, Affluence, and Morality”. |
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| 4/2 (Mon) | Welfare, Humanity, and Human Rights Reading Questions. James S. Fishkin, The Limits of Obligation, Chapters 4 and 9. |
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| 4/4 (Wed) | International Aid: From Theory to Practice (Unit #4) |
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| 4/5 (Thu) | Instructor review for analytical essay #2 done by 5:00pm. | |
| 4/9 (Mon) | International Aid: From Theory to Practice Reading Questions. Jeffrey D. Sachs, The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time, Chapter 13. |
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| 4/11 (Wed) | International Aid: From Theory to Practice Reading Questions. Andrew Kuper, “More Than Charity: Cosmopolitan Alternatives to the 'Singer Solution'”. |
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| 4/15 (Sun) | Analytical essay #2 due by 12:00pm (noon) via TurnItIn. | |
| 4/16 (Mon) | International Aid: From Theory to Practice Reading Questions. Dale Jamieson, “Duties to the Distant: Aid Assistance, and Intervention in the Developing World”. |
Topic for analytical essay #3 handed out (rubric) (guidelines). |
| 4/18 (Wed) | International Aid: From Theory to Practice Reading Questions. Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer, “Use of Randomization in the Evaluation of Development Effectiveness”. |
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| 4/23 (Mon) | Epilogue: Patents on Life-Saving Medication Reading Questions. David Barnard, “In the High Court of South Africa, Case No. 4138/98: The Global Politics of Access to Low-Cost AIDS Drugs in Poor Countries”. |
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| 4/25 (Wed) | Epilogue: Patents on Life-Saving Medication Reading Questions. Amir Attaran, “How Do Patents And Economic Policies Affect Access To Essential Medicines In Developing Countries?” |
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| 4/26 (Thu) | Instructor review for analytical essay #3 done by 5:00pm. | |
| 5/3 (Thu) | Analytical essay #3 due by 12:00pm (noon) via TurnItIn. |