Course Information
| Instructor | Professor David Emmanuel Gray |
| Contact | CMUQ 1039, degray@cmu.edu, @ProfessorDEG |
| Office hours | By appointment, or whenever the instructor’s office door is open |
| Class time | Monday, Wednesday: 3:00pm–4:20pm |
| Class location | CMUQ 1030 |
| Syllabus | PDF. |
| Teaching Assistant | Fatema Alsayed, CMUQ 1207, fks@andrew.cmu.edu |
Grading
- Participation
- Class Summaries
Assignment.
Verbal: sample rubric (explanation).
Written: sample rubric (explanation), formatting requirements, and MS-Word template. - Two Analytic Summaries
Rubric (explanation), formatting requirements, and MS-Word template. - Four Position Papers
Rubric (explanation), formatting requirements, and MS-Word template.
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Schedule
| Date | Topic/Readings | Assignments |
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| 9/3 (Mon) | Prologue: Health & Human Rights in an Interconnected World (Slides) |
Analytic summary #1 topic posted. (Rubric, explanation, formatting requirements, and MS-Word template.) |
| 9/5 (Wed) | Health & Human Rights in an Interconnected World Reading Questions. Kagan, “Rights”. |
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| 9/9 (Sun) | Analytic summary #1 due by 12:00pm (noon) via TurnItIn. | |
| 9/10 (Mon) | Health & Human Rights in an Interconnected World Reading Questions. Stillwaggon, “AIDS and Poverty in Africa: Prevention and Treatment Require a Focus on Overall Health and Development”. |
Analytic summary #2 topic posted. (Rubric, explanation, formatting requirements, and MS-Word template.) |
| 9/12 (Wed) | Realism: Skepticism About Global Justice (Unit #1) Reading Questions. Hobbes, Leviathan. Optional reference: Glossary of terminology in the Leviathan. |
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| 9/16 (Sun) | Analytic summary #2 due by 12:00pm (noon) via Canvas. | |
| 9/17 (Mon) | Skepticism About Global Justice Reading Questions. Hardin, “The Feast of Malthus”. Hardin, “Living on a Lifeboat”. |
Position paper #1 topic posted. |
| 9/19 (Wed) | Skepticism About Global Justice Reading Questions. Sen, “Women’s Agency and Social Change” and “Population, Food and Freedom”. |
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| 9/24 (Mon) | Skepticism About Global Justice Reading Questions. Sen, “The Importance of Democracy” and “Famines and Other Crises”. Rice, “Hunger Pains: Famine in the Horn of Africa”. |
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| 9/26 (Wed) | Skepticism About Global Justice Reading Questions. Ashcroft, “Access to Essential Medicines: A Hobbesian Social Contract Approach”. |
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| 9/30 (Sun) | Position paper #1 due by 12:00pm (noon) via Canvas. | |
| 10/1 (Mon) | Libertarian Responses: Negative Duties & Global Resources (Unit #2) Reading Questions. Locke, Second Treatise of Government. |
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| 10/3 (Wed) | 🚨 Class will now be held in seminar room 2049 🚨 Negative Duties & Global Resources Reading Questions. Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia. |
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| 10/8 (Mon) | Negative Duties & Global Resources Reading Questions. Barry, “Humanity and Justice in Global Perspective”. |
Position paper #2 topic posted. |
| 10/10 (Wed) | Negative Duties & Global Resources Reading Questions. Pogge, “Eradicating Global Poverty: Brief for a Global Resources Dividend”. |
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| 10/15 (Mon) | Negative Duties & Global Resources Reading Questions. Risse, “Do We Owe the Global Poor Assistance or Rectification?” |
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| 10/17 (Wed) | Negative Duties & Global Resources Reading Questions. Miller, “Globalization Moralized”. |
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| 10/22 (Mon) | 🚨 OMG RAIN! 🌧⛈🌊 DAY 2018 (Class Canceled) 🚨 | |
| 10/23 (Tue) | Position paper #2 due by 12:00pm (noon) via Canvas. | |
| 10/24 (Wed) |
🙁 Yes, we are having class to make up for OMG RAIN! 🌧⛈🌊 DAY 2018 🙁 Negative Duties & Global Resources Reading Questions. Risse, “Is there a Human Right to Essential Pharmaceuticals?” |
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| 10/29, 31 | 🌴 Fall Break 🌴 | |
| 11/5 (Mon) | Human Rights, Beneficence & Humanity (Unit #3) Reading Questions. O’Neill, “The Dark Side of Human Rights”. United Nations Commission on Human Rights, “Universal Declaration of Human Rights”. |
Position paper #3 topic posted. |
| 11/7 (Wed) | Human Rights, Beneficence & Humanity Reading Questions. Nickel, “Poverty and Rights”. |
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| 11/12 (Mon) | Human Rights, Beneficence & Humanity Reading Questions. Nussbaum, “Women and Equality: The Capabilities Approach”. |
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| 11/14 (Wed) | Human Rights, Beneficence & Humanity Reading Questions. Singer, “Famine, Affluence, and Morality”. |
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| 11/18 (Sun) | Position paper #3 due by 12:00pm (noon) via Canvas. | |
| 11/19 (Mon) | Human Rights, Beneficence & Humanity Reading Questions. Fishkin, The Limits of Obligation. |
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| 11/21 (Wed) | International Aid: From Theory to Practice (Unit #4) Reading Questions. Sachs, “Making the Investments Needed to End Poverty”. |
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| 11/26 (Sun) | From Theory to Practice Reading Questions. Easterly, “The Legend of the Big Push”. |
Position paper #4 topic posted. |
| 11/28 (Tue) | From Theory to Practice Reading Questions. Kuper, “More Than Charity: Cosmopolitan Alternatives to the ‘Singer Solution’”. |
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| 12/3 (Mon) | From Theory to Practice Reading Questions. Jamieson, “Duties to the Distant: Aid, Assistance, and Intervention in the Developing World”. Curtis, “Oh Dearism” (local file). |
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| 12/5 (Wed) | From Theory to Practice Reading Questions. Duflo & Kremer, “Use of Randomization in the Evaluation of Development Effectiveness”. Duflo, “Social Experiments to Fight Poverty” (local file). |
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| 12/10 (Mon) | From Theory to Practice Reading Questions. 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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| 12/13 (Thu) | Position paper #4 due by 12:00pm (noon) via Canvas. |