Schedule Update:
Hi folks. To be very, very clear, here’s our schedule for the next two weeks:
Tuesday, June 1 (morning): Class discussion of The Boiler Room and the current American financial crisis.
Preparation:
- Watch The Boiler Room (download coming soon!, and I bet you can find subtitles here)
- Research the causes of the American financial crisis on your own, and
- Find interesting ways to link the two…
Tuesday, 1 June (7-9pm, IH 340): Make-up class: Hanmoi and Min Kyo will present their midterm papers.
Preparation:
- Download their essays from our Google Docs folder and read them over.
- Prepare questions and thoughts for the class discussion — you must prepare one preparation paper for each student presenting
- Afterward, add a reaction paper to each preparation paper, and submit the following week.
Thursday, 3 June: Mijung will present her midterm paper to the class.
Preparation:
- Download her essay from our Google Docs folder and read it over.
- Prepare questions and thoughts for the class discussion
- Afterward, add a reaction paper to your preparation paper, and submit the following week.
Tuesday, 8 June: Hyelim will present her paper in the first hour; we will begin our wrap-up discussion in the second hour.
Hyelim’s Presentation Preparation:
Download her essay from our Google Docs folder and read it over.
- Prepare questions and thoughts for the class discussion
- Afterward, add a reaction paper to your preparation paper, and submit the by the end of the week.
Wrap-up Discussion Preparation:
- Read the excerpts from Bad Samaritans distributed on 1 June.
- Be ready to discuss not just Chang, but ideas brought up throughout the semester.
- The primary questions I’d like to try answer are these:
- What is the responsibility of a person in our world in terms of his or her economic power?
- What relationship should we have with multinational corporations?
- If we can, as Chang argues, choose between different forms of globalization, how would we “make that choice”?
Thursday 10 June: Final Class
- We will conclude our wrap-up discussion, I will collect your final essays, and that’s it for the semester!