Environment
and
Human Rights

Dr Tom Kerns

"All individuals are entitled to live in an environment
adequate for their health and well-being."

- United Nations Resolution 45/94

Assignments homepage

week	dates	assignments	misc
0	Apr 5-7	• register • login to Angel and get familiar with our classroom • post biography in classroom
1	Apr 8-14	• 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
2	Apr 15-21	• 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
3	Apr 22-28	• 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
4	Apr 29-May 5	• 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
5	May 6-12	• 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
6	May 13-19	• 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 lecture to Bioneers 2008 conference • view Steingraber Bioneers lecture here or here. • Rd: Pollution in People study; online report; download report • Wt: Pollution in People DQs • an important note about writing your research paper
7	May 20-26	• 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
8	May 27-Jn 2	• 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
9	June 3-9	• 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
10	June 10-16	• 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

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