Spring 2002

Class Schedule:

CONTRACTS DUE

23 January 2002	Topic: Syllabus Overview Lost Horizon
30 January 2002	Topic: Debriefing of Lost Horizon COMMONS GAME Assumptions about Human Nature/Values 'Readers in a Strange Land' (Class Handout) DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
06 February 2002	Topic: Looking Backward Facilitators: Dunn For full text of Looking Backward, click 'here' For pinkmonkey.com overview of Looking Backward, click 'here' Selected quotes from Bellamy's Looking Backward William Morris: Lecture on Bellamy's Looking Backward See Feenberg, Andrew. `Looking Backward, Looking Forward: Reflections on the 20th Century' (an essay contrasting Bellamy's utopia and Huxley's dystopia) See Peyser, Tom. `Looking Back at Looking Backward' (an essay on planning and New Urbanism) See also Crawford Killian's `Forgotten Words' DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
13 February 2002	Topic: UTOPIA PRESENTATIONS
20 February 2002	Topic: Herland Facilitators: Deanna Jervis, Thu Tran, Patricia Williams, Chrissy Woods For full text of Herland, click 'here' Other websites of interest: `www.advancingwomen.com' `On the Edge of Change: Gender War and the Search for Utopia' `'Feminist Utopia' site' Also see `Ain't I A Woman?' DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
27 February 2002	Topic: UTOPIA PRESENTATIONS PAPER 1 DUE (Papers will not be accepted without SELF-EVALUATION 1 form attached)
06 March 2002	Topic: Worldly Philosophers (Part I) Facilitators: Dara Grantham-Wright, Scott Gunther, Tim Ketter, John Norfolk Guest Speaker: Allen Baldwin, Orange County Community Housing Corporation (OCCHC) Our Mission... "to provide housing and related services to very low-income large families with special emphasis on extremely low-income large families." Our Vision... OCCHC pursues its mission around the shared vision of a world in which each person has a sense of worth; accepts responsibility for self, family, community, and well-being; and has the capacity to be productive, and to help create nurturing families, responsible institutions and healthy communities. Values... Those who are most vulnerable in society have voices and should be heard. Diversity and Inclusivity are essential for the creativity and innovation. All communities have assets, including history, knowledge, and power to define and solve their own problems. The nurturance of individuals and families fosters the growth of healthy communities. Partnerships, collaboration, and civic participation are fundamental to improving organizations and institutions, and to assuring sustainable social change. The richness and energy of life are determined by the synergy of mind, body and spirit. The human condition can be improved by the appropriate use of knowledge, science and technology. The fostering of healthy human development emphasizes prevention over treatment. Long-term sustainability should be encouraged through their wise use of human and natural resources DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
13 March 2002	Topic: Worldly Philosophers (Part II) Facilitators: Jenifer Collins, Lori Harrison, Bobby Linder For this class session please familiarize yourself with the following DEBATE RULES See Soros, George. `The Capitalist Threat' See Bogart, William T. `Looking Backward at Feasible Socialism: Using Bellamy to Teach Schumpeter' DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
20 March 2002	Topic: The Nature and Logic of Capitalism Facilitators: Jason Fraker, Mike Rewald, Joel Renick See Friedman, Milton. `The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits' Prior to class, please access the following sites and register your survey results: What's your Ideology? IDEAlog DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
27 March 2002	Topic: The Good Society (Bellah et al.) Facilitators: Brian Lewton, Paul Wilkins See Bellah, Robert. `'Community Properly Understood: A Defense of "Democratic Communitarianism"'' To find out more about the work of Robert N. Bellah, click `here' Prior to class, please access the `Belief System Selector' and record your results DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
03 April 2002	SPRING RECESS
10 April 2002	Topic: The Good Society (Galbraith) Facilitators: Nami McKlendin, Jynette Thompson, Beth Winters DISCUSSION QUESTIONS PAPER 2 DUE (Papers will not be accepted without SELF-EVALUATION 2 form attached)
17 April 2002	Topic: Business Horizons Special Issue Facilitators: John Faris, Lije Sarki Anatomy of a Hostile Takeover (The Annenberg/CPB Project Ethics in America Series) DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
24 April 2002	Topic: Contemporary Distributive Justice Issues Facilitators: Richard Mauricio, Jodie Nelson, Brent Pena 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 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
01 May 2002	Topic: Managerial Ethics in a Market Context Facilitators: Mario Church, Danielle Valente, Rex Perez, John Engstrom Josephson Institute on Ethical Decision-Making Johnson & Johnson Credo Ethics at Texas Instruments ACM Codes of Conduct Ethics Toolkit Compliance Programs and the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines NYNEX ('Code of Business Conduct' video) DEADLY DECEPTION (INFACT video) DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
08 May 2002	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 (Papers will not be accepted without SELF-EVALUATION 3 form attached)
15 May 2002	FINAL EXAMINATION

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