Discuss what can we learn from Fairphone and from Douglas Rushkoff, in Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus (especially in Chapter 5, pages 228-232), about how to implement the “post-growth climate mitigation scenarios” that Jason Hickel and others talk about in this...
Choose a work of art, music, literature, philosophy, theater or anything other related to humanities from Unit One. Analyze the work you have chosen in the context of its own culture. How is it different from its equivalent in our own culture?
The nature-versus-nurture debate questions the extent to which a person’s behavior and personality are a product of genetics (i.e., nature) or whether they are a product of upbringing, environment, life experiences, and influences (i.e., nurture). As...
Based on your teaching/learning experiences and pedagogical philosophy, do you consider yourself to be a linear thinker, holistic teacher, Laissez-Faire advocate, critical theorist, traditionalist, empiricist, or reconceptualize? Why? ...
In a two-page essay (500 words), Do you think the Senses Can Account for All of Our Knowledge? Outline Hume’s objection to the use of inductive reasoningto secure knowledge about how things will be in the future. How does Hume’s objection here represent...
In this final written assignment, Case Study: Ethical Theory Application and Evaluation, you will create your own case study based onan ethical issue or social problem in your local community (neighborhood, town city, school district, religious community, local...