for Tuesday, Jan. 12: Introduction to course

  • short-term remedies vs. long-term systemic change
  • Advocacy for the common good
  • justice vs. charity
  • using your interests and talents for the common good after college
  • How does ordinary become extraordinary?
  • The Millennium Goals


for Thursday, Jan. 14: -Defining Poverty (link to class slides)

  • Read: Sachs: The Foreword (p. xii-), The Preface (p. xvi-), The Introduction (p. 1-), and Ch. 1 (pages 1-25)
  • Defining poverty: Extreme, Moderate, Relative Poverty; ascending the ladder of development. Introduce Millennium Development Goals, US budget.
  • Relationship of poverty and national security.
  • Issues: Poverty and development; refugees; migration; human trafficking.

for Tuesday, Jan. 19: - The Rise of the Rest

  • Read Sachs: Chapter 2 -- The Spread of Economic Prosperity - pages 26-50 and Chapter 3 pages 51-73
  • Introduction to forced migration
  • Iraqi refugees: visit with Arlene Flaherty at CRS Northeast

for Thursday, Jan. 21 -

  • Read Sachs: Malaria mystery pages 196-200; The Global Fund 206-209 and Chapter 11-these pages: p. 210-216
for Tuesday, Jan. 26: - The Voiceless Dying - Africa and Disease

  • Please read Sachs, chapter 16, pp. 308-328. Quiz.
  • At 3:15 we will watch a movie called "God Grew Tired of Us." http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0301555/
  • Wikipedia: God Grew Tired of Us is a 2006 documentary film about three of the "Lost Boys of Sudan", a group of some 25,000 young men who have fled the wars in Sudan since the 1980s, and their experiences as they move to the United States. This true story will help you understand what it is like to be a refugee. 90 minutes.

for Thursday, Jan. 28 - The Millennium Goals



for Tuesday, Feb. 2 - The Global Compact to End Poverty

  • Read Sachs: Chapter 16 - Myths and Magic Bullets.
  • Visit to Sisters of Saint Joseph Welcome Center, Eileen Marnien, SSJ, 728 E. Allegheny Avenue

for Thursday, Feb. 4: - Can the Rich Afford to Help the Poor?

  • Sachs Chapter 17 - 18 -- Why We Should Do It and Our Generation’s Challenge

for Tuesday, Feb. 9: - snow day

for Thursday, Feb. 11: -

  • Lives for Sale and Dreams Die Hard

for Tuesday, Feb. 16:

  • Sister Teresita of Dawn’s Place

for Thursday, Feb. 18: Global Solidarity Network: Human Trafficking
  • Study and write GSN. http://crs.nortia.org Read the essays and watch the video. Begin to write your thoughts in two of the essays. Write a substantive reflection 10-15 sentences. Return and comment on others’ 5-7 sentences.
  • Human Trafficking and Slavery

for Tuesday, Feb. 23: Global Solidarity Network:
  • Study and write GSN.

for Thursday, Feb. 25: Global Solidarity Network:
  • Study and write GSN.
  • Buy Enrique’s Journey. In bookstore.

for Tuesday, March 9:
  • Read Enrique’s Journey
  • class trip to meet with the executive director of Lutheran Children and Family Services in Pa., Dr. Denise Berte

for Thursday, March 11:
  • Enrique’s Journey


for Tuesday, March 16: 
  • Enrique’s Journey


for Thursday, March 18 -
  • Enrique’s Journey
  • You may skip chapter 23.



for Tuesday, March 23:
  • Dying to Live (Notre Dame video)

    for Thursday, March 25:
    • Council on Foreign Relations: Immigration and U.S. National Interests

    for Tuesday, March 30:
    • Council on Foreign Relations: need for reform

    Thursday, April 1 is Holy Thursday

    for Tuesday, April 6:
    • Paper due on Enrique’s Journey
    • Council on Foreign Relations: recommendations