Schedule

Date Topic/Readings Assignments
1/10 (Sun) Prologue: Health & Human Rights in an Interconnected World (slides)

Donation project topic posted (rubric) (groups) (milestone templates: MS Word & Pages).

Analytic summary #1 topic posted (rubric) (guidelines) (templates: MS Word & Pages).

1/12 (Tue) Health & Human Rights in an Interconnected World
Reading questions.
Shelly Kagan, “Rights”.		  
1/16 (Sat)   Analytic summary #1 due by 12:00pm (noon) via Blackboard.
1/17 (Sun)

Health & Human Rights in an Interconnected World
Reading questions.
Eileen Stillwaggon, “AIDS and Poverty in Africa: Prevention and Treatment Require a Focus on Overall Health and Development”.

Analytic summary #2 topic posted (rubric) (guidelines) (templates: MS Word & Pages).
1/19 (Tue)

Realism: Skepticism About Global Justice (Unit #1)
Reading questions.
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan.
Optional: Glossary of terminology in the Leviathan.

  
1/23 (Sat)  

Donation project milestone #1 due by 12:00pm (noon) via Blackboard.

Donation project peer evaluation #1 due by 12:00pm (noon) via Google Forms.

1/24 (Sun) Skepticism About Global Justice
Reading questions.
Garrett Hardin, “Living on a Lifeboat” & “The Feast of Malthus”.		  
1/26 (Tue) Skepticism About Global Justice
Reading questions.
Amartya Sen, “Women’s Agency and Social Change” & “Population, Food and Freedom”.		  
1/30 (Sat)   Analytic summary #2 due by 12:00pm (noon) via Blackboard.
1/31 (Sun) Skepticism About Global Justice
Reading questions.
Amartya Sen, “The Importance of Democracy” & “Famines and Other Crises”.
Optional: Xan Rice, “Hunger Pains: Famine in the Horn of Africa”.
Position paper #1 topic posted (rubric) (guidelines) (templates: MS Word & Pages).
2/2 (Tue) Skepticism About Global Justice
Reading questions.
Richard Ashcroft, “Access to Essential Medicines: A Hobbesian Social Contract Approach”. 		 
2/6 (Sat)  

Donation project milestone #2 due by 12:00pm (noon) via Blackboard.

Donation project peer evaluation #2 due by 12:00pm (noon) via Google Forms.

2/7 (Sun) Libertarian Responses: Negative Duties & Global Resources (Unit #2)
Reading questions.
John Locke, Second Treatise of Government. 		 
2/9 (Tue) Qatar National Sports Day  
2/13 (Sat)  

Donation project milestone #3 due by 12:00pm (noon) via Blackboard.

Donation project peer evaluation #3 due by 12:00pm (noon) via Google Forms.

2/14 (Sun) Negative Duties & Global Resources
Reading questions.
Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia. 		 
2/16 (Tue) Negative Duties & Global Resources
Reading questions.
Brian Barry, “Humanity and Justice in Global Perspective”.

 
2/20 (Sat)   Position paper #1 due by 12:00pm (noon) via Blackboard.
2/21 (Sun) Negative Duties & Global Resources
Reading questions.
Thomas Pogge, “Eradicating Global Poverty: Brief for a Global Resources Dividend”. 		Position paper #2 topic posted (rubric) (guidelines) (templates: MS Word & Pages).
2/23 (Tue)

Class Cancelled

  
2/28, 3/1 Spring Break  
3/6 (Sun)

No Class

  
3/8 (Tue) Negative Duties & Global Resources
Reading questions.
Mathias Risse, “Do We Owe the Global Poor Assistance or Rectification?”		  
3/12 (Sat)  

Donation project milestone #4 due by 12:00pm (noon) via Blackboard.

Donation project peer evaluation #4 due by 12:00pm (noon) via Google Forms.

3/13 (Sun) Negative Duties & Global Resources
Reading questions.
Mathias Risse, “Is there a Human Right to Essential Pharmaceuticals?”		  
3/15 (Tue) Human Rights, Beneficence & Humanity (Unit #3)
Reading questions.
Onora O’Neill, “The Dark Side of Human Rights”.
Optional: The General Assembly of the United Nations, “Universal Declaration of Human Rights”.		  
3/19 (Sat)   Position paper #2 due by 12:00pm (noon) via Blackboard.
3/20 (Sun) Human Rights, Beneficence & Humanity
Reading questions.
James Nickel, “Poverty and Rights”.

Position paper #3 topic posted (rubric) (guidelines) (templates: MS Word & Pages).
3/22 (Tue) Human Rights, Beneficence & Humanity
Reading questions.
Martha Nussbaum, “Women and Equality: The Capabilities Approach”. 		 
3/26 (Sat)  

Donation project milestone #5 due by 12:00pm (noon) via Blackboard.

Donation project peer evaluation #5 due by 12:00pm (noon) via Google Forms.

3/27 (Sun) Human Rights, Beneficence & Humanity
Reading questions.
Peter Singer, “Famine, Affluence, and Morality”. 		 
3/29 (Tue)

Human Rights, Beneficience & Humanity
Reading questions.
James S. Fishkin, “The Zone of Indifference” & “The Famine Relief Argument”.

  
4/2 (Sat)   Position paper #3 due by 12:00pm (noon) via Blackboard.
4/3 (Sun) International Aid: From Theory to Practice (Unit #4)
Reading questions.
Jeffrey D. Sachs, “Making the Investments Needed to End Poverty”.

Position paper #4 topic posted (rubric) (guidelines) (templates: MS Word & Pages).

4/5 (Tue) From Theory to Practice
Reading questions.
William R. Easterly, “The Legend of the Big Push”.
  
4/10 (Sun) From Theory to Practice
Reading questions.
Andrew Kuper, “More Than Charity: Cosmopolitan Alternatives to the ‘Singer Solution’”.		  
4/12 (Tue) From Theory to Practice
Reading questions.
Dale Jamieson, “Duties to the Distant: Aid, Assistance, and Intervention in the Developing World”.

 
4/16 (Sat)   Position paper #4 due by 12:00pm (noon) via Blackboard.
4/17 (Sun) From Theory to Practice
Reading questions.
Esther Duflo & Michael Kremer, “Use of Randomization in the Evaluation of Development Effectiveness”.		  
4/19 (Tue) 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”.		  
4/28 (Thu) Donation Project Presentations from 8:30am to 11:30am in classroom 1031 (our regular classroom).  
4/29 (Fri)   Donation project peer evaluation #6 due by 12:00pm (noon) via Google Forms.