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    Course Introduction
    Course Syllabus
    Unit 1: The Role of Ethics and Morality in Politics
    1.1: What Does "Ethics" Mean?
    1.2: Ethical Oversight in Domestic Politics
    1.3: Ethical Oversight in International Politics
    1.1: What Does Ethics Mean?
    Moral Dilemmas, Moral Truth, and Moral Knowledge
    The Good Life: Virtue and Well-Being
    Mores, Laws, Morality, and Ethics
    1.2: Ethical Oversight in Domestic Politics
    Government Accountability Office
    Government and the Private Sector
    1.3: Ethical Oversight in International Politics
    Overview of the Human Rights Framework
    Universal Declaration of Human Rights
    A Theory of Justice
    Unit 2: Theoretical Frameworks for Ethical Analysis
    2.1: Ethical Decision-Making Frameworks
    2.2: The Common Good Approach
    2.3: The Fairness or Justice Approach
    2.4: The Utilitarian Approach
    2.5: The Virtue Approach
    2.6: The Rights Approach
    Unit 2 Assessment
    2.1: Ethical Decision-Making Frameworks
    Moral Foundations Theory
    Ethical Principles and Responsible Decision-Making
    2.2: Virtue Ethics
    Aristotle's Virtue Ethics
    The Good Life: Virtue and Well-Being
    On Virtue Ethics
    2.3: Deontology
    Kant's Ethics
    Kant's Categorical Imperative
    The Duties of the Categorical Imperative
    2.4: The Utilitarian Approach
    Classical Utilitarianism and Distributive Justice
    Utilitarian Ethics
    Unit 3: Individual Liberty, Public Safety, and Immigration
    3.1: The First Amendment
    3.2: The Second Amendment
    3.3: Punishment of Criminal Offenders and the Criminal Justice System
    3.4: The Legalization of Drugs
    3.5: Illegal Immigration
    3.1: Individual Liberty
    Democracy and Majority Rule
    3.2: Freedom of Speech and the Press
    Freedom of Speech and the Press
    What is the Point of Free Speech?
    Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989)
    3.3: Punishment of Criminal Offenders and the Criminal Justice System
    The Ethics of Power and Authority
    What Exposes African Americans to Police Violence?
    The Case of Correctional Institutions
    3.4: The Second Amendment
    The Path to Gun Control in America Goes through Political Philosophy
    The Public's Health and the Social Meaning of Guns
    3.5: Illegal Immigration
    Unauthorized Aliens in the United States
    International Migration at a Time of Crisis
    Unit 3 Assessment
    Draft a Policy Memo: Individual Liberty, Public Safety, and Immigration
    Unit 4: Income Equality, Equal Employment, and Affirmative Action
    4.1: Taxes and Tax Reform
    4.2: EEO Compliance
    4.3: Affirmative Action
    4.1: Income Equality
    Financing Government
    Income Inequality
    4.2: Equal Employment Opportunity
    Employment Discrimination
    The Americans with Disabilities Act
    4.3: Affirmative Action
    Affirmative Action
    Cheryl J. Hopwood v. State of Texas
    Grutter v. Bollinger
    Unit 4 Assessment
    Draft a Policy Memo: Income Equality, Equal Employment, and Affirmative Action
    Unit 5: Care for the Poor, Sick, Elderly, and Infirm
    5.1: Social Security and Health Insurance
    5.2: Poverty in America
    5.3: Dilemmas Involving Illness and Infirmity
    5.1: Social Security and Health Insurance
    Historical Background and Development of Social Security
    Health Disparities
    Federal Investments to Eliminate Racial/Ethnic Health-Care Disparities
    5.2: Poverty in America
    Dynamics of Economic Well-Being: Poverty, 2009–2011
    Growing Economic Inequality and Its (Partially) Political Roots
    5.3: Dilemmas Involving Illness and Infirmity
    Involuntary Treatment in Psychiatry Around the World
    Ethical Concerns in End-of-Life Care
    The Terri Schiavo Debacle: What Have We Learned?
    Unit 5 Assessment
    Draft a Policy Memo: Care for the Poor, Sick, Elderly, and Infirm
    Unit 6: Policies Regarding Families and Personal Relationships
    6.1: Marriage and Other Consensual Adult Relationships
    6.2: Parent/Child Relationships
    6.3: Contraception and Abortion
    Unit 6 Assessment
    6.1: Marriage and Other Consensual Adult Relationships
    Family Law
    Loving v. Virginia (1967)
    Same-Sex Marriage and Other Moral Taboos: Cultural Acceptances, Change in American Public Opinion and the Evidence from the Opinion Polls
    6.2: Parent/Child Relationships
    Applying Ethical Decision Making to Child Abuse Reporting
    The Case for Vaccinating Children in School and Day Care by Default
    6.3: Contraception and Abortion
    Griswold v. Connecticut
    Unit 7: National Security and Foreign Relations
    7.1: Conventional Combat and Intelligence Operations
    7.2: Nonconventional Combat and Intelligence Operations
    7.3: Gender and Sexual Preference Issues in the Military
    7.1: Combat and Intelligence Operation Tactics
    The Ethics of War
    The Study of Torture: Why It Persists, Why Perceptions of It are Malleable, and Why It is Difficult to Eradicate
    7.2: Ethics and Foreign Relations
    The U.N. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
    Ethics and Good Leadership in Foreign Policy
    7.3: Foreign Trade and Economic Development
    Ethical Challenges in the Global Environment
    The Role of International Conventions and Covenants in Achieving Economic and Environmental Justice
    7.4: Military Intervention
    Humanitarian Intervention
    Unit 7 Assessment
    Write a Policy Memo: National Security and Foreign Relations
    Unit 8: Foreign Relations, Foreign Trade, Foreign Aid, and Military Intervention
    8.1: Ethics and Foreign Relations
    8.2: Ethics, Foreign Trade, and Economic Development
    8.3: Military Intervention in Foreign Affairs
    Unit 8 Assessment
    Unit 9: Science, Technology, and Commerce
    9.1: Ethics and the Free Market
    9.2: Government Ethics and Information Technology
    9.3: Government Ethics and Medicine
    Unit 9 Assessment
    Unit 10: Daily Operations of Government, Lobbying, Campaigns, and Elections
    10.1: Ethics and Daily Operations of Government
    10.2: Ethics, Lobbying, Elections, and Campaign Finance Issues
    Unit 10 Assessment
    Study Guide
    POLSC401 Study Guide
    Course Feedback Survey
    Course Feedback Survey
    Certificate Final Exam
    POLSC401: Certificate Final Exam
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Dynamics of Economic Well-Being: Poverty, 2009–2011

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Read this census-based analysis which provides detailed research on the harms of poverty to the contemporary American citizen. Going beyond the raw numbers, this document helps the average citizen to better understand what poverty looks like in the real world today.

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