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Orientation Session; Syllabus, and Summary Sheet |
Analytical Exercise (On Ellwood Reading) |
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Policy Controversy and the Role of Values in Problem Definition |
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The Concept and Measurement of Poverty in the United States |
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Other Approaches to Conceptualizing and Measuring Poverty |
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Roundtable Discussion on the Concept and Measurement of Poverty (student led) |
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Institutional Design of Poverty Programs: Controversy over Responsibility, the Public-Private Mix Continued |
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The Public Private Mix Controversy in Pension Policy |
Assignment #1 Due |
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The Public Private Mix Controversy in Social Service Policy: Profit and Non Profit (Non-Sectarian and Faith-Based) |
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| 9 |
Roundtable Discussion on the Public-Private Mix |
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Mid Term Exam (One week after Lecture 9) |
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The Underclass Controversy |
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| 11 |
Taking Stock and Starting Discussion of the Underclass Debate |
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Analyzing and Writing Reading Arguments |
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Moving to Opportunity |
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The Controversy over Welfare Reform |
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Dependency in a Comparative Perspective |
Assignment #2 Due |
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The American Reform of its Welfare System |
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Roundtable Discussion of Welfare Reform |
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| 18 |
Political Disenfranchisement |
Writing Rewrite Assignment Due |
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Economic Growth: Poverty and the I.Q. Controversy |
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| 20 |
The Controversy of Political Disenfranchisement: Poverty as a Lack of Power
Crime Deviance and Poverty Roundtable Discussion on the Underclass Debate |
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| 21 |
Economic Power |
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| 22 |
Roundtable Discussion on Disenfranchisement |
Assignment #3 Due |
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Social Science Contribution to Controversy |
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End Term Exam (Optional but Strongly Recommended - 2 days after the last Lecture) |