Table of Contents

• Course Contents

  • About This Course
  • Course Contents at a Glance

• Faculty Resources

  • Faculty Resources Overview
  • PDF
  • Additional Resources
  • I Need Help

• Food

  • Video: The Global Food Waste Scandal
  • Video: Why Not Eat Insects?
  • Audio: "Genetically-engineered yeast is the future of flavor" by Gastropod
  • "Vermont's Farm to Ballet Project Shines the Spotlight on Conservation" by Amy Overstreet

• Literacy Narrative

  • Video: Language as a Window to Human Nature
  • Video: The Danger of a Single Story
  • Video: John Green on Paper Towns and Why Learning is Awesome
  • "The Inspired Writer vs. the Real Writer" by Sarah Allen
  • "Be an Inspiration, Not an Impostor" by Ben Cotton
  • "Multiple Intelligences" by Fred Mednick

• Culture

  • "A South African Storm" by Allison Howard
  • "Body Ritual among the Nacirema" by Horace Miner
  • "Demanding Equal Political Voice...And Accepting Nothing Less: The Quest for Latino Political Inclusion" by Louis DeSipio
  • Audio: "Psychology’s unhealthy obsession with the WEIRDest people in the world" by David McRaney

• Zombies

  • "The Zombie as Barometer of Capitalist Anxiety" by D.T. Robb
  • "Zombies vs. animals? The living dead wouldn't stand a chance" by David Mizejewski

• Nature & Conservation

  • "Sustaining Our Commonwealth of Nature and Knowledge" by Herman Daly
  • "Plain Geology" by George Otis Smith
  • "Which water technology will save California from its long, dry death?" By Kiki Sanford

• Technology

  • "That time the Internet sent a SWAT team to my mom's house" by Caroline Sinders
  • "The Relationship Between Cell Phone Use and Academic Performance in a Sample of U.S. College Students" by Andrew Lepp, Jacob E. Barkley, and Aryn C. Karpinski
  • "Call to All Open Source Communities: Emphasize Inclusion" by Meg Ford
  • "Piracy Gave Me A Future" by Daniel Starkey

• Consumer Debt

  • "The 182 Percent Loan: How Installment Lenders Put Borrowers in a World of Hurt" by Paul Kiel and Krista Kjellman Schmidt
  • "On Victory Drive, Soldiers Defeated by Debt" by Paul Kiel and Mitchell Hartman
  • "The Payday Playbook: How High Cost Lenders Fight to Stay Legal" by Paul Kiel
  • "Whack-a-Mole: How Payday Lenders Bounce Back When States Crack Down" by Paul Kiel
  • "How One State Succeeded in Restricting Payday Loans" by Paul Kiel
  • "To Dodge Law, High-Cost Lender Offers Cash for Free" by Paul Kiel
  • "When Lenders Sue, Quick Cash Can Turn Into a Lifetime of Debt" by Paul Kiel

• Health Care

  • “'Death Is Part of the Job' in Long-Term Care Homes" by Jill Marcella and Mary Lou Kelley
  • "On Vaccination Against Smallpox" by Edward Anthony Jenner
  • "Back to the Future: Making House Calls for Better Care, Reduced Costs" by K. Eric De Jonge
  • "A Legacy for Lewis: Improving Patient Safety" by Helen Haskell
  • "Living with FASDs: In Taylor's Own Words" by the Centers for Disease Control
  • "Can We Use Social Media to Support Content Validity of Patient-Reported Outcome Instruments in Medical Product Development?" by Margaret Rothman, et al

• Politics

  • "Millionaire Candidates" by Carl Schurz
  • "Why Aren't Governments as Transparent as They Could Be?" by Ryan Thornburg
  • "Seattle and the Demons of Ambition: Apocalyspo" by Frederick Moody

• Wikipedia

  • "What I Learned While Editing Wikipedia" by Noopur Raval
  • Video: Jimmy Wales and the Origin of Wikipedia
  • "Wikipedia Is Good for You!?" by James Purdy

• Literature

  • "Eve's Diary" by Mark Twain
  • "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin
  • "On the Gull's Road" by Willa Cather
  • "The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams
  • "The Lockless Door" by Robert Frost
  • "The Open Window" by Saki
  • "Two Ways of Seeing A River" by Mark Twain
  • "The School Days of an Indian Girl" by Zitkala-Sa
  • "The Specialist's Hat" by Kelly Link