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In-class schedule: May 18-20
Quiz 1:
May 20
Online schedule: Recommended: Quiz 1 on May 28
Deadline: July 10.
World
Hunger Introduction (Ch 1)
Video:
Never-ending famine in Ethiopia
Reading: Food
Insecurity in the World 2005 (Download Flyer)
News
Story: The
Potato and World Hunger
World
Hunger Facts 2008 (World Hunger Education Service)
UN
Millennium Development Goals
Video:
Millennium Development Goals
News Story:
MDG
Progress in Nigeria
World
Hunger 12 Myths
(Food First)
Reading: World Hunger 12 Myths
Video: Frances Moore
Lappe
Oxfam
Hunger Banquet
Video:
Hunger Banquet Slideshow
Famines
(Ch 2)
Video:
Letters from the Irish Potato Famine
Video: Armenian
Genocide, 1915
Video: Nazi Concentration Camps
Video:
Genocide in Darfur
News Story:
Q&A Sudan's Darfur Conflict
Video: History of
Famines from "The Conquest of Poverty"
Malnutrition
(Ch 3)
Video: Living
with hunger in Ethiopia
News
Story: Obesity
in Developing Countries
Section 2
In-class schedule: May 20-22
`
Nutrition Case Study Report
due: May 21
Quiz
2: May 22
Online schedule: Recommended: Nutrition Case Study on
Report June 1, Quiz 2 on June 4
Deadline: July 10.
Nutrition Case Study Report
Study
Guide for Section 2
Measuring
Undernutrition
(Ch 4)
Impacts
of Undernutrtion (Ch 5,6)
Video: Underweight
Children in India
Video: Treating
Malnutrition in Zimbabwe
BBC World Food Day
Quiz 2007
Constructing
an Ethical Theory (Gary Varner)
Ethics and Hunger
Video:
Right to food
World
Hunger a Moral Response (Required Reading)
Economics (Ch
7,8)
Population
(Ch 9)
Video: Population
Video: Daniel
Quinn on Agriculture and Population
Video:
Population explosion in Nigeria
News
Story: Slums
and Future Global Urban Growth
Income
Distribution and Undernutrition (Ch 10)
Video:
Child labor in Pakistan
Video: Slavery
and Human Trafficking
News Story: Child Slave Trade
Factors
Affecting Demand for Food (Ch 11)
Agricultural
Land and Water (Ch 12)
Section 3
In-class schedule: May 26-28
News Report due: May
27
Quiz 3: May 28
Online schedule: Recommended: News Report on June 8, Quiz 3 on
June 11
Deadline: July 10
News
Report
Study
Guide for Section 3
Agricultural
Production and the Environment (Ch 13)
Video: Global warming
Video:
Global warming cartoon
Radio:
Dude where is my cap-and-trade primer
Video:
Biofuels versus food
Video: World Food
Crisis -- Global Meat Consumption
News
Story: Biofuels
and World Hunger
News
Story: Meat
Making Global Warming Worse
News
Story: Climate
Change and the Poor--Adapt or Die
Ecological Footprints (Mathis Wackernagel)
How Big is Your Ecological
Footprint? (Redefining Progress)
Video: Population
and the environment
Environmental
Ethics
Video: Deep Ecology
Video: Vegetarian
Argument (PETA)
Video:
Animal Agriculture is Environmentally Friendly
Environment
vs Food (Food First)
Increasing
Yields: The Green Revolution (Ch 14)
Movie: America the
Bountiful pt 6: Whereby We Thrive (Green Revolution history) (Shown in
class. Online students: link in online course
materials with lectures)
Video: Critiques of
the Green Revolution
Video: New
Green Revolution for India?
Video: New
Green Revolution for Africa?
Quality
Protein Maize
Food
Biotechnology Ethics
Advances
in Plant Biotechnology (Required Reading)
Student Presentations
In-class schedule:
May 29-June 1
Online schedule: Recommended: on June 18
Deadline: July 10
In
Class Group
Student Presentations (Section 1)
Online Student Presentations (Section XW)
Section 4
In-class schedule: June 1-3
Bihari Farmer
Computer Simulation due: June 2
Quiz 4:
June 3
Online schedule: Recommended: Bihari Farmer Computer
Simulation on June 25, Quiz 4 on July 2
Deadline: July 17
Bihari
Farmer Computer Simulation
Study
Guide for Section 4
Guns
Germs and Steel (Jared Diamond)
Video:
Guns Germs and Steel -- Writing
Video:
Guns Germs and Steel -- Germs
Worst
Mistake (Jared Diamond)
The
Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race (Required
Reading)
Video: Hunters and
Gatherers in Africa
Video: The
Agricultural Revolution: The Neolithic
News
Story: Hoodia
and Kalahari Indigenous Bushmen
Agricultural
Societies (Jared Diamond)
Video: Monty
Python's King Arthur
Video:
Feudalism
Video:
Dark Ages
World
History: Indo-Europeans to the Middle Ages
Video:
Ancient Mesopotamia
Video: History of
Empires
Video:
The
great wall of China
Section 5
In-class schedule: June 4-8
Movie Report
due: June 5
Quiz 5: June 8
Online schedule: Recommended: Movie Report on July 6, Quiz 5 on
July 19
Deadline: July 24
Movie
Report
Study
Guide for Section 5
World
History: Age of Discovery to Present
Video:
Portugese
Empire
Video:
1492 (Genocide of Native Americans)
Video:
Disney's
Pocahontus:
Mine!
Video: French
Revolution
Video:
Great Leap
Forward in China
BBC
Country Profile: Democratic Republic of Congo 2007
Women's Status in Agricultural Societies (Marvin Harris)
Video:
Women in Afghanistan
Video: Acid Attack
on women in Bangladesh
Video:
Child prostitution in India
News
Story: Domestic
Violence and malnutrition in India
Development of Religion in State Societies (Marvin
Harris)
Invention of Invention
(D. Landes)
Video:
Interview
with Galileo
Video:
Ancient Chinese Inventions
The Market as a Principle of Exchange (E. L
Shusky)
Video:
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, 1911
Video:
Its a Wonderful Life: Bank Run, 1929
News
Story: Industrialization
in China
Course
Syllabus
Nutrition Case Study Report
News
Report
Bihari
Farmer Computer Simulation
Movie
Report
Group
Student Presentations
Origins
of Poverty in the Developing World Case Study
Aid
Organization Report
Extra
Credit Paper
Erica's
Guide to Finding Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Articles
Erica's
Description of Ethical Theories and Principles
Childreach (PLAN)
Children
International
Feed
the children
Kiva.org: make a Microfinance
loan
One
Laptop Per Child
Heiffer
International
Self Help International:
from Waverly IA
Movie Trailers
Africa:
Blood Diamond
Hotel Rwanda
The Constant Gardner
The Last King of
Scotland
Beyond Borders
Out
of Africa
Lord of War
Asia:
Mongol
Alexander
` The Kingdom of Heaven
The Last Emperor
Gandhi
The
Ugly American
The Killing Fields
Salaam
Bombay
The Kite Runner
Slumdog
Millionaire
Britain:
King Arthur
Robin Hood Prince of
Thieves
The Other Bolyn Girl
Braveheart
Amazing Grace
Oliver
Twist
Europe:
Gladiator
Joan of Arc
Goya's Ghosts
Les Miserables
Fiddler on the Roof
Reds
Angela's Ashes
Schlindler's List
North America:
Amistad
Gone With the Wind
The Great
Debaters
Bury my Heart at
Wounded Knee
The Last of the
Mohicans
Hawaii
Titanic
The Grapes of Wrath
Battle in Seattle
Central and South America:
1492:
The Conquest of Paradise
The Mission
Apocalypto
The
Motorcycle Diaries
Evita
City of God
Documentary:
An Inconvenient Truth
Fast Food Nation
Guns Germs and Steel
(Parts 1-18)