Jan 9-20
    Quiz 1: Jan 20

Study Guide for Section 1

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  

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 (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

Charities

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)