College of Business Administration College of Business Administration
22 January 2003 Topic:
Syllabus Overview
Lost Horizon29 January 2003 Topic:
Debriefing of Lost HorizonTake a look at The Majesty of the Commons
Assumptions about Human Nature/Values
'Readers in a Strange Land' (Class Handout)
05 February 2003 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'
12 February 2003 Topic:
Nickel and Dimed
Facilitators: Burritt, Olejnik, and Mitchell
Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty-level wages. Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them, inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that any job equals a better life. But how can anyone survive, let alone prosper, on six to seven dollars an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich moved from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, taking the cheapest lodgings available and accepting work as a waitress, hotel maid, house cleaner, nursing home aide, and Wal-Mart salesperson. She soon discovered that even the “lowliest” occupations require exhausting mental and physical efforts. And one job is not enough; you need at least two if you intend to live indoors.Nickel and Dimed reveals low-wage American in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity—a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems for survival. Instantly acclaimed for its insight, humor, and passion, this book is changing the way America perceives the working poor.
See the Center on Policy Initiatives for information regarding social justice here in San Diego.
19 February 2003 Topic:
Herland
Facilitators: Doney and BoikeFor 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?'
CONTRACTS DUE
26 February 2003 Topic:
UTOPIA PRESENTATIONS
TERM PROJECT PART 1 DUE
(Papers will not be accepted without SELF-EVALUATION 1 form attached)05 March 2003 Topic:
Worldly Philosophers (Part I--Chapters 1-5)
Facilitators: Berry, Gustafson, Hageman and Heikkila
12 March 2003 MOVING DAY: Henceforth class will be held in Chemistry/Geology 309 (located just north of the BAM building) Topic:
Worldly Philosophers (Part II--Chapters 6-11)
Facilitators: Dow, Palit, Setiadi, Rollins, and Lanio
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'
19 March 2003 Topic:
The Nature and Logic of Capitalism
Facilitators: Hoag and Bell
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?
IDEAlog26 March 2003 Topic:
The Good Society (Bellah et al.)
Facilitators: Pochat and Hendricks
See Bellah, Robert. `Community Properly Understood: A Defense of "Democratic Communitarianism"'
See Bellah, Robert. `Is Capitalism Compatible with "Traditional Morality"'
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
02 April 2003 SPRING RECESS
For a good time, visit http://www.distributive-justice.com/ and explore the links which allow you to create your own good society!09 April 2003 Topic:
The Good Society (Galbraith)
Facilitators: Bosworth, Albro, and Serrano
TERM PROJECT PART 2 DUE
(Papers will not be accepted without SELF-EVALUATION 2 form attached)16 April 2003 Topic:
Business Horizons Special Issue
Facilitators: Codinha, Cosky and Vicino
Anatomy of a Hostile Takeover (The Annenberg/CPB Project Ethics in America Series)
23 April 2003 Topic:
Contemporary Distributive Justice Issues
Facilitators: Blankenbiller, Patrick, and SmithAlso 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'
National Coalition of Free Men
Sexual Correctness: The Gender-Feminist Attack on WomenFrontline program: Surviving the Bottom Line
Lou Krause (Business Enterprise Trust video)
30 April 2003 Topic:
Managerial Ethics in a Market Context
Facilitators: Derfer, McLaren, and Houston
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 GuidelinesNYNEX ('Code of Business Conduct' video)
DEADLY DECEPTION (INFACT video)
07 May 2003 Topic:
The Meaning of Work
Facilitators: Dunn
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)TERM PROJECT PART 3 DUE
(Papers will not be accepted without SELF-EVALUATION 3 form attached)14 May 2003 FINAL EXAMINATION
Return to Professor Dunn's Home Page