Class Syllabus:
Here is the link to our wiki space (8am class):
Week 1: Course Intro; Mormon listening quiz
Homework: Read John Wood article
Week 2: Quiz on John Wood. Class Topic:
Philanthropy.
Homework: read about Chinese food in
America
Week 3: Quiz on Chinese food in America. Class
topic: McDonald's: how bad it is
Week 4: "Progress" and the Environment. Class activity: form groups, create a definition of "progress" and answer the question regarding whether Man is going to destroy the Earth and himself, or if he will use his intelligence to solve the MANY serious problems we have today.
Week 5: Film -An Inconvenient Truth by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore.
Week 6: Quiz on An Inconvenient Truth. Class topic: discussion of film
Homework: read article on diseased coral on Taiwan's Green Island.
Week 7: Watch YouTube video about "Gross National Happiness" in the Kingdom of Bhutan.
Week 8: Review of course material to date
Week 9: Mid-term exam.
*we will actually be at Week 10 by this time
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