Fall 2000

Class Schedule:

08.29.2000	Topic: Syllabus Overview Lost Horizon
09.05.2000	Topic: Debriefing of Lost Horizon Assumptions about Human Nature/Values 'Readers in a Strange Land' (Class Handout) DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
09.12.2000	Topic: Looking Backward Facilitators: Steve Brown, Juan Valasquez, and Brandon Wiedemeier Quotes from Bellamy's Looking Backward DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
09.19.2000	Topic: UTOPIA PRESENTATIONS
09.26.2000	Topic: Herland Facilitators: Celine Abadie, Barbara Mitchell, and Long Nguyen Interested in feminist perspectives in science fiction? Then click here to access 'A Brief Historical Survey of Women Writers of Science Fiction' Other websites of interest: `www.advancingwomen.com' `Department of Labor, Women's Bureau' `On the Edge of Change: Gender War and the Search for Utopia' `www.feminis.org/research/ewb_toc.html' Also see `Ain't I A Woman?' DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
10.03.2000	Topic: The Winner Take All Society Facilitators: Sean Dwyer, Mark Thomas, and Jack Tyndall DISCUSSION QUESTIONS Paper 1 Due
10.10.2000	Topic: Worldly Philosophers (Part I) Facilitators: Langhorne Bond and Anne Emilie Bombin DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
10.17.2000	Topic: Worldly Philosophers (Part II) Facilitators: Andre Francois and Eric Sutton See Soros, George. `The Capitalist Threat' DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
10.24.2000	Topic: The Nature and Logic of Capitalism Facilitators: Ryan Perry and Jim Forbes For full text of Ford Pinto legal case, click here. Also see Friedman, Milton. `The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits' DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
10.31.2000	Topic: Seminar/Paper Preparation Day
11.07.2000	Topic: The Good Society (Bellah et al.) Facilitators: Corbet Romero and Jason Woron DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
11.14.2000	Topic: The Good Society (Galbraith) Facilitators: Glen Burford In preparation for class, please read the Malden Mills case. DISCUSSION QUESTIONS Paper 2 Due
11.21.2000	Topic: Business Horizons Special Issue Facilitators: Matt Aune Anatomy of a Hostile Takeover (The Annenberg/CPB Project Ethics in America Series) DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
11.28.2000	Topic: Contemporary Distributive Justice Issues Facilitators: Yutaka DeSilva and Danielle Reo See JOHNSON CONTROLS CASE Also see Le Guin, Ursula. `The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas' Also see JOHNSON CONTROLS CASE Also see Dunn, Craig P. `The Normative Defense for Affirmative Action' University of Rhode Island Office of Affirmative Action Piccataway Amicus Project National Coalition of Free Men Sexual Correctness: The Gender-Feminist Attack on Women Frontline program: Surviving the Bottom Line Lou Krause (Business Enterprise Trust video) DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
12.05.2000	Topic: Managerial Ethics in a Market Context Facilitator: Osman Hakan Cepken Josephson Institute on Ethical Decision-Making Johnson & Johnson Credo Ethics at Texas Instruments ACM Codes of Conduct Ethics Toolkit School for Scandal? Compliance Programs and the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Ingersoll-Rand Uses ‘Five Questions’ To Help Identify Ethics Issues NYNEX ('Code of Business Conduct' video) DEADLY DECEPTION (INFACT video) DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
12.12.2000	Topic: The Meaning of Work What Comes Next? The Hungry Spirit: Beyond Capitalism..., Chapters 8 & 9 Taylor, Fredrick. `The Principles of Scientific Management' Terkel, Studs. 'Working'. (Chapter titles: Carl Murray Bates, Walter Lundquist, Donna Murray, Roberta Victor, Nora Watson) DISCUSSION QUESTIONS Paper 3 Due

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