| For Class On | Read, Attend or Be Prepared to Discuss/Do: |
| Monday Oct. 4th | --Class Introduction
--No Reading --10:30 AM Palmer Room 20 Computer Lab: E-Mail and Web Directions --1:00 – 3:00 P.M. Computer Lab in Econ Dept. Lab |
| Tuesday Oct. 5th | --Bucking the Deficit, Chap. 1
– The American Economy – Concepts and Theories
--Hope and Fear, Chap. 1 – Generation Without a Name --Hope and Fear, Chap. 2 – Flaws, Problems, and Decline: The New Localism --1:00 – 3:00 P.M. Computer Lab in Econ Dept. Lab |
| Wednesday Oct. 6th | --Bucking the Deficit, Chap. 2
– Development of the Modern Political Economy
--Hope and Fear, Chap. 3 – Campus Politics: Let the Buyer Beware --Hope and Fear, Chap. 4 – Multiculturalism: The Campus Divided --1:00 – 3:00 P.M. Computer Lab in Econ Dept. Lab |
| Thursday Oct. 7th | --Bucking the Deficit, Chap. 3
– Making Economic Policy
--Hope and Fear, Chap. 5 – Personal Life: Retreat from Intimacy --Hope and Fear, Chap. 6 – Academics: Search for an Insurance Policy --Team Reports on Hope and Fear (Chaps. 1, 2) and (Chaps 3,4)
1:00 – 3:00 P.M. Afternoon Panel on the Elderly, in Slocum Commons |
| Friday Oct. 8th | --Bucking the Deficit, Chap. 4
– Dilemmas of Contemporary Economic Policy
--Hope and Fear, Chap. 7 – The Future: Doing Well or Doing Good --Hope and Fear, Chap. 8 – Conclusion: A Transitional Generation --Team Report on Hope and Fear (Chaps 5,6) |
| Monday Oct. 11th | --Bucking the Deficit, Chap. 5
– Looking to the Future
--Gen. Apart, Intro, Part One – Tensions between the Generations --Todd Wilson visit on Op Ed writing
--1:00 – 3:00 P.M. Afternoon Panel on the Youth, near campus at Dale House, 10 W. Dale |
| Tuesday Oct. 12th | --Gen. Apart, Part Two – Who Holds the Power |
| Wednesday Oct. 13th | --Gen. Apart, Part Three – How
Generations Cycle
--Gen. Apart, Part Four – Do Demographic Trends Spell Disaster?
1:00 – 3:00 P.M. Afternoon Panel on Entitlements, in Slocum Commons
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| Thursday Oct. 14th | --Gen. Apart, Part Five – Social Security and Medicare in the Twenty-First Century |
| Friday Oct. 15th | --Exam
Homecoming |
| Monday Oct. 18th | No Class: reading and team research
day
Read for Baca Exercise: --Background, pp. 1-27 --Background, pp. 28-67 --Teams organize for Hard Choices Exercise --late afternoon class discussion and snacks --Individuals work on paper/Op Ed
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| Tuesday Oct. 19th | --8:00 A.M. Depart for Baca.
--lunch at Baca --P.M. at Baca Read: --Exercise in Hard Choices, pp. 1-32. --Exercise in Hard Choices, pp. 33-71. --Teams work on Hard Choices Exercise --late afternoon class discussion and snacks --Individuals work on paper/Op Ed --evening Gen X videos
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| Wednesday Oct. 20th | Baca
--Teams work on Hard Choices Exercise --late morning class discussion on Exercise --Individuals work on paper/Op Ed --late afternoon class discussion and snacks --evening Gen X videos
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| Thursday Oct. 21st | Baca Recreation Day
--Sand Dunes, San Luis Recreation --Individuals work on paper/Op Ed -- late afternoon class discussion and snacks |
| Friday Oct. 22nd | Baca
--Teams Report on Hard Choices Solutions --lunch at Baca --Return to C.S. by 4:30 P.M. |
| Monday Oct. 25th | Independent Work on Paper |
| Tuesday Oct. 26th | Independent Work on Paper
--1:00 – 3:00 P.M. Mandatory Meeting with seniors for a session on "Intergenerational Connections: Entitlement Issues Through the Eyes of College Students" to share Op Ed articles and paper topics, at Senior Center, 1514 N. Hancock |
| Wednesday Oct. 27th | Paper or Op Ed article and Notebook Due by Noon |