Online Section XV:  May 17-21
                                    Quiz 1: May 21

    Online Section XW: June 14-18
                                    Quiz 1: June 18 

Study Guide for Section 1

World Hunger Introduction (Ch 1)
       Video: Famine in Ethiopia
        Reading: Food Insecurity in the World 2005 (Download Flyer)  
        News Story: The Potato and World Hunger   
        World Hunger Facts 2009 (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

 Course Section 2: Hunger Ethics, Economics, Population

    Online Section XV:  May 24-28
                                    Nutrition Report due May 25                        
                                    Quiz 2: May 28

    Online Section XW:  June 21-25
                                     Nutrition Report due June 22
                                     Quiz 2: June 25

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)  
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
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
Factors Affecting Demand for Food (Ch 10)
Agricultural Land and Water (Ch 11)

Course Section 3:  Environment, Agriculture, Biotechnology

   Online Section XV: June 1-4
                                  News Report due June 2
                                  Quiz 3: June 4

   Online Section XW: June 28- July 2
                                   News Report due June 29
                                   Quiz 3: July 2

News Report
Study Guide for Section 3

Agricultural Production and the Environment (Ch 12)
       Video: Global warming
       Video: Global warming cartoon
       Radio: Dude where is my cap-and-trade primer
       Video: Biofuels versus food
       Video: World Food Crisis
       News Story: Biofuels and World Hunger
       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
          Advances in Plant Biotechnology (Required Reading) 
 

 Course Section 4: Agricultural Revolution, Ancient History

   Online Section XV: June 7-11
                                  Bihari Farmer Report due June 8
                                  Quiz 4: June 11

   Online Section XW: July 6 -9
                                   Bihari Farmer Report due July 7
                                   Quiz 4: July 9

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
    

Course Section 5:  Modern History, Industrial Revolution

   Online Section XW: July 12-16
                                   Movie Report due July 13
                                   Quiz 5: July 16

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

   Online Section XW: July 19-23
                                   Origins of Poverty and Hunger Report due July 20
                                   Quiz 6: July 23

    Online Section XW: July 26-30
                                   Aid Organization Report due July 27
                                   Quiz 7: July 30

Student Presentations

   Online Section XV: Powerpoint Presentation due by July 9  
                              
  Online Section XW:  Powerpoint Presentation due by Aug 6

  Powerpint Presentations 

Extra Credit Paper
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

    West Asia
       Alexander
       The Kingdom of Heaven
       Syriana

    Australia:
        Australia     

    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      
       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
       Food Inc.
       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)