Schedule
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| 1/13 (Mon) | Introduction | |
| 1/15 (Wed) | Prologue: Health, Wealth & 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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| 1/19 (Sun) | Analytic summary #1 due by 12:00pm (noon) via TurnItIn. | |
| 1/20 (Mon) | Health, Wealth & Social Institutions in an Interconnected World |
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| 1/22 (Wed) | Realism: Skepticism About Global Justice (Unit #1) Reading questions. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan. (Glossary). |
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| 1/26 (Sun) | Donation project milestone #1 due by 12:00pm (noon) via TurnItIn. | |
| 1/27 (Mon) | Realism: Skepticism About Global Justice |
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| 1/29(Wed) | Realism: Skepticism About Global Justice Reading questions. National Intelligence Council, “Strategic Implications of Global Health”. |
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| 2/2 (Sun) | Analytic summary #2 due by 12:00pm (noon) via TurnItIn. | |
| 2/3 (Mon) | Realism: Skepticism About Global Justice Reading questions. Amartya Sen, “Women’s Agency and Social Change” & “Population, Food and Freedom”. |
Position paper #1 topic (rubric) (guidelines) (template). |
| 2/5 (Wed) | Realism: Skepticism About Global Justice Reading questions. Amartya Sen, “The Importance of Democracy” & “Famines and Other Crises”. |
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| 2/10 (Mon) | Realism: Skepticism About Global Justice Reading questions. Richard Ashcroft, “Access to Essential Medicines: A Hobbesian Social Contract Approach”. |
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| 2/12 (Wed) | Libertarian Responses: Negative Duties & Global Resources (Unit #2) Reading questions. John Locke, Second Treatise of Government. |
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| 2/16 (Sun) | Position paper #1 due by 12:00pm (noon) via TurnItIn. | |
| 2/17 (Mon) | Libertarian Responses: Negative Duties & Global Resources Reading questions. Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia. |
Position paper #2 topic (rubric) (guidelines) (template). |
| 2/19 (Wed) | Libertarian Responses: Negative Duties & Global Resources Reading questions. Brian Barry, “Humanity and Justice in Global Perspective”. |
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| 2/23 (Sun) | Donation project milestone #2 due by 12:00pm (noon) via TurnItIn. Milestone #2 peer evaluation due by 12:00pm via TurnItIn (template). |
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| 2/24 (Mon) | Libertarian Responses: Negative Duties & Global Resources Reading questions. Thomas Pogge, “Eradicating Global Poverty: Brief for a Global Resources Dividend”. |
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| 2/26 (Wed) | Libertarian Responses: Negative Duties & Global Resources Reading questions. Mathias Risse, “Do We Owe the Global Poor Assistance or Rectification?” |
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| 3/3, 5 | Spring Break | |
| 3/10 (Mon) | Libertarian Responses: Negative Duties & Global Resources Reading questions. Richard Miller, “Globalization Moralized”. |
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| 3/12 (Wed) | Libertarian Responses: Negative Duties & Global Resources Reading questions. Mathias Risse, “Is there a Human Right to Essential Pharmaceuticals?” |
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| 3/16 (Sun) | Position paper #2 due by 12:00pm (noon) via TurnItIn. | |
| 3/17 (Mon) | Welfare, Humanity & Human Rights (Unit #3) Reading questions. The General Assembly of the United Nations, “Universal Declaration of Human Rights”. Onora O'Neill, “The Dark Side of Human Rights”. |
Position paper #3 topic (rubric) (guidelines) (template). |
| 3/19 (Wed) | Welfare, Humanity & Human Rights Reading questions. James Nickel, “Poverty and Rights”. |
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| 3/23 (Sun) | Donation project milestone #3 due by 12:00pm (noon) via TurnItIn. Milestone #3 peer evaluation due by 12:00pm via TurnItIn (template). |
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| 3/24 (Mon) | Welfare, Humanity & Human Rights Reading questions. Martha Nussbaum, “Women and Equality: The Capabilities Approach”. |
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| 3/26 (Wed) | Welfare, Humanity & Human Rights Reading questions. Peter Singer, “Famine, Affluence, and Morality”. |
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| 3/30 (Sun) | Position paper #3 due by 12:00pm (noon) via TurnItIn. | |
| 3/31 (Mon) | Welfare, Humanity & Human Rights Reading questions. James S. Fishkin, “The Zone of Indifference” & “The Famine Relief Argument”. |
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| 4/2 (Wed) | International Aid: From Theory to Practice (Unit #4) |
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| 4/6 (Sun) | Donation project milestone #4 due by 12:00pm (noon) via TurnItIn. Milestone #4 peer evaluation due by 12:00pm via TurnItIn (template). |
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| 4/7 (Mon) | International Aid: From Theory to Practice Reading questions. William R. Easterly, “The Legend of the Big Push”. |
Position paper #4 topic (rubric) (guidelines) (template). |
| 4/9 (Wed) | International Aid: From Theory to Practice Reading questions. Andrew Kuper, “More Than Charity: Cosmopolitan Alternatives to the ‘Singer Solution’”. |
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| 4/13 (Sun) | Donation project milestone #5 due by 12:00pm (noon) via TurnItIn. Milestone #5 peer evaluation due by 12:00pm via TurnItIn (template). |
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| 4/14 (Mon) | International Aid: From Theory to Practice Reading questions. Dale Jamieson, “Duties to the Distant: Aid, Assistance, and Intervention in the Developing World”. |
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| 4/16 (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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| 4/21 (Mon) | International Aid: From Theory to Practice 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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| 4/23 (Wed) | Donation project presentations. | |
| 4/27 (Sun) | Position paper #4 due by 12:00pm (noon) via TurnItIn. |