Schedule of Lectures Date Theme Contents 10/5 & 10/6 Gender Selection Would you choose the gender of your child? What are the pressures to choose a specific gender? What might the expectation of the grandparents be? 11/9 & 11/10 Intersectionality How do I learn about the biases I might have? Do my biases have anything in common? How can I decrease or eliminate these biases? 12/7 & 12/8 Abortion & Euthanasia When does life begin? When does life end? What is the role of gender stereotypes? 1/4 & 1/5 2024 Outer Beauty Plastic Surgery in South Korea 16th century and Peter Paul Rubens to the present. Technology: photoshop to DALL-E 2/1 & 2/2 Inner Beauty Dove Experiment: Which door would you walk through? Lizzie Valasquez: "The Ugliest Women in the World" ? What is the significance of Pharell's "Happy" Music Video? Behavioral Objectives A student will be able to: 1. perform stakeholder analysis 2. brainstorm according to the 6 Silicon Valley rules of brainstorming 3. develop unique brainstorming rules for multicultural, multilingual brainstorming 4. recognize and determine where to stop on a "slippery slope" 5. recognize and differentiate between emotion and logic 6. distinguish between "process" and "results" 7. recognize the role of nuance in Objectives #4 #5 & #6 Grading Criteria Grade will be determined by: 40% Class Participation (includes having camera "on" during class) 30% Class Attendance 30% Examinations