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• your 1st assignment: definitions
• torture case study
• assignment for the rest of week one
• lecture: introduction to formal ethics
• Rd: Kant, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
• Rd: Mill, Utilitarianism
• Rd: lecture: Nietzsche on moralitiy
• Rd: Nietzsche, The Antichrist (Preface, Sections 1-19)
• Wt: Nietzsche DQs
• Wt: Kant SQs
• Wt: Mill SQs

• assignment for week two
• Rd: The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
• Wt: Omelas Discussion Questions
• Rd: Saturday Afternoon
• Rd: lecture on ethical relativism/essentialism
• Wt: lecture DQs
• Research Project (& personal narratives) assignment

• assignment for week three
• Rd: Miss Evers' Boys
• Wt: Evers SQs
• Wt: Evers DQs
• Rd: The Nuremberg Code
• Wt: DQs for The Nuremberg Code
• Rd: Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• Wt:DQs for UDHR
• Rd: Elliott & Lamm, A Moral Code for a Finite World
• Wt: DQs for A Moral Code for a Finite World
• Research projects need to be OKed by Tue evening of week 3
• information on Midterm Self Evaluation requirement
• Download Midterm SE Form

• assignment for week four
• Rd: Environmentally Induced Illness
• Wt: EII DQs
• Watch: A Killer Bargain (URL available in classroom)
• Wt: DQs for A Killer Bargain
• Midterm Self Evaluation due between Thur & Tue of week 4

• assignment for week five
• Rd: Four cases: Bhopal, Fear in the Fields, New Zealand, California coast
• Wt: Bhopal DQs, Fear in the Fields DQs, NZ DQs, CDFA spray DQs
• Rd: Nickel, "Human Rights," Stanford Ency of Philosophy
• Wt: DQs for Nickel, "Human Rights," Stanford Ency of Philosophy

• assignment for week six
• midterm exam (details in the classroom)
• Rd: Morsink, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Origins, Drafting and Intent, Intro, chps 1, 2, 8
• Wt: DQs for Morskink
• Rd: American Declaration on the Rights and Duties of Man
• Wt: ADRDM DQs
• Rd: Steingraber speech to Bioneers 2008 conference
• Rd: Pollution in People study; online report; download report
• Wt: Pollution in People DQs
• an important note about writing your research paper

• assignment for week seven
• Rd: Linking Human Rights and the Environment, Intro, chps 1, 2, 3, 7 & 9 (chps 4, 5 & 6 are optional; chapter 8 will be read in week 9)
• Wt: DQs for Picolotti & Taillant, Linking Human Rights and the Environment

• assignment for week eight
• Rd: Ibsen, Enemy of the People
• Wt: DQs for Enemy of the People
• lecture: overview of human rights methods and practices
• Wt: DQs for Human Rights Methods & Practice lecture
• Presentation and discussion of research project papers
• Post and discuss collected personal narratives by Sunday

• assignment for week nine
• Rd: Donnelly, Universal Human Rights in Theory & Practice, Introduction, chapters 1 & 2 (pp 1-37)
• Rd: Linking Human Rights and the Environment, chp 8, "Environmental Advocacy and the Inter-American Human Rights System"
• Wt: LHRE DQs for chapter 8
• Wt: Donnelly DQs

• assignment for week ten
• Rd: public opinion survey on human rights in the US
• Wt: DQs on the public opinion survey
• final exam
• (or you could take this alternate final exam)
• Final SE and Project SE due on Wednesday
• class ends this Wednesday evening