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Jan 9-20
Quiz 1: Jan 20
World
Hunger Introduction (Ch 1)
Video:
Famine in Somalia (2011)
World
Hunger Facts 2011 (World Hunger Education Service)
News Story: Equality for
Women can Reduce World Hunger says UN Report
UN
Millennium Development Goals
Video:
Millennium Development Goals
MDG
Progress chart 2011
News Story:
MDG
Progress in Nigeria
World
Hunger 12 Myths
(Food First)
Webpage:
World Hunger 12 Myths (Required Reading)
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 (2007)
Video: Solar
Cookers Prevent Rape in Darfur Refugee Camps (2008)
Malnutrition
(Ch 3)
Video: Malnutrition
and Gender Equality in India
News
Story: Obesity
in Developing Countries
Course Section 2: Hunger
Ethics, Economics, Population
Jan
23- Feb 3
Nutrition Report due: Jan 27
Quiz 2: Feb 3
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 (2006)
Constructing
an Ethical Theory (Gary Varner)
Ethics and Hunger
Video:
Right to food
World
Hunger a Moral Response (Required Reading)
Economics (Ch
7)
Population
(Ch 8)
Video: Population
Video: Daniel Quinn
on Agriculture and Population
Video:
Population explosion in Nigeria
News
Story: Slums
and Future Global Urban Growth
News
Story: The World in 2100
Income
Distribution and Undernutrition (Ch 9)
Video: World Air
Traffic (Distribution of wealth)
Video:
Child labor in Pakistan
Video: Slavery
and Human Trafficking
News Story: Child Slave Trade
News
Story: Slumdog Tourism
Factors
Affecting Demand for Food (Ch 10)
Agricultural
Land and Water (Ch 11)
Course Section 3: Environment, Agriculture,
Biotechnology
Feb 6- 17
News Report due Feb 10
Quiz 3: Feb 17
Study
Guide for Section 3
Agricultural
Production and the Environment (Ch 12)
Video: Global warming
Video:
Global warming cartoon
Cap
and Trade 101 (EPA)
Video:
Biofuels versus food
Video:
World Food
Crisis
News
Story: EU Biofuels Significantly Harming Food Production in Developing
Countries (2010)
News
Story: Meat
Making Global Warming Worse
Ecological Footprints (Mathis Wackernagel)
How Big is Your Ecological
Footprint? (Redefining Progress)
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 13, 14)
Movie: America the
Bountiful pt 6: Whereby We Thrive (Green Revolution history) (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?
News
Debate: Can Biotech Food Solve World Hunger?
News
Story: The Fight over the Future of Food
Quality
Protein Maize
Food
Biotechnology Ethics
Benefits
of Genetically Modified Crops for the Poor
(Required Reading)
Course Section 4:
Agricultural Revolution, Ancient History
Feb 20- Mar 2
Green Revolution Report due Feb 24
Quiz 4: Mar 2
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
Video:
How to Combat Modern Slavery
World
History: Indo-Europeans to the Middle Ages
Video:
Ancient Mesopotamia
Video: History of
Empires
Video:
The
great wall of China
Student Presentations
Mar 5-9
Group
Powerpoint Presentation (in-class sections only)
Individual
Powerpoint Report (online section only)
Course Section 5: Modern History, Industrial
Revolution
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 Part I
Video:
Great Leap Forward in China Part II
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
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
Medicine for Mali:
from Des Moines IA
Movie
Trailers
Africa:
Blood Diamond
Hotel
Rwanda
The Constant Gardner
The Last King of
Scotland
Beyond Borders
Out
of Africa
Lord of War
Tears of the Sun
Blackhawk Down
East Asia:
Mongol
The Last Emperor
The Killing Fields
Good Morning Vietnam
South Asia
Gandhi
Salaam
Bombay
The Kite Runner
Slumdog
Millionaire
Babel
West Asia
Alexander
The Kingdom of Heaven
Syriana
Australia:
Australia
Britain:
King Arthur
Robin Hood Prince of
Thieves
Robin Hood
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
Battle in Seattle
Human
Trafficking
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
Food Inc.
Born into Brothels
(India)
The Devil Came on
Horseback (Darfur)
Darfur Diaries
The End of Poverty?
The
Age of Stupid
Workingman's
Death
Life
and Debt
Year
Zero: Story of a Khmer Rouge Soldier
Guns Germs and Steel
(Parts 1-18)
When China Met Africa
The End of the Line
Megacities (1.5
hr)