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 | Content: In this course, we will study issues of
poverty, ill-health, disability, unemployment, old age. In all of these areas, the
federal and state governments of most countries intervene to ameliorate the suffering of
individuals and families. We will consider causes and effects of the conditions
causing economic insecurity, as well as study the kinds of government,
business, and not-for-profit programs designed to
intervene in those causes and effects. Ethics concepts are applied to help students
decide for themselves what personal, business, and governmental policies ought to be.
 | Poverty and Welfare |
| Ill-health and Medicare and Medicaid |
| Disability and Workers Compensation |
| Unemployment and Unemployment Insurance |
| Old Age and Social Security and Long-term Care
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| Skills:
| Discussion and discussion leadership skills: You will
improve your discussion skills by participation in numerous class discussions. |
| Analysis skills: You will improve your ability to synthesize
information, to form informed opinions, and to analyze your reactions to material
presented in readings, class discussions, by guest speakers, and events in the world.
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| Written communication skills: You will improve your ability
to present the above in written form. |
| Presentation skills: You will improve your presentation
skills by creating and presenting a Microsoft Power Point or web-based
oral presentation with team members. |
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Resources: Textbooks.
See detailed information on Textbooks page of this website.
Attendance is required in this course (including days immediately before and after
official University breaks!). There are no exams. Learning will happen because
you are present and awake and participating in class and doing the required reading,
thinking, and preparation outside of class. Your presence will be noted and
graded.
Assignments: You'll have many items
contributing to your final grade, including attendance and class
participation. See Assignments page on this
website.
Letter grades will be assigned to each graded item. Your final grade in the
course will be an average (based on Creighton's 4.0 scale) of the grades assigned.
There are many items included in the grade (see above), so failure in
one assignment will not be fatal to your final grade! In addition there may be extra
credit opportunities which arise during the semester and perhaps some optional assignments
which could substitute for or augment a low score. Grades will be assigned based on
the descriptions in the Creighton University Undergraduate Bulletin. Please
read these descriptions and decide to which level you wish to aspire!
| A |
Outstanding achievement and an unusual degree of intellectual initiative |
| B+ |
High level of intellectual achievement |
| B |
Noteworthy level of performance |
| C+ |
Performance beyond basic expectations of the course |
| C |
Satisfactory work |
| D |
Work of inferior quality, but passing |
| F |
Failure--no credit for the work |
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