WEDNESDAY 10/17

IC101
Today: We have reached the midpoint of the semester, so we opened class with a discussion about your experience at FPU so far. You then filled out a Plus/Delta Chart assessing the first half of the course. Thank you for all your comments. Or main class discussion surrounded Unit 1 of the Common Reader: Learning Styles & Strategies. We focused on the three main learning styles (Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic). To demonstrate each we did an exercise to show how each can be applied and how each can deceive us.

Homework: Take the left/right brain assessment. We will use this as a basis for our our discussion on Friday.

IC212
Today: We started class by discussing the group projects/presentations that will begin in 3 weeks. If you have any further questions regarding this assignment please see me. You then took a Plus/Delta Chart assessing the first half of the course so far. Thank you for all your comments. Our main discussion focused on Chapter 2 of The Corporation:
-Corporate Social Responsibility platforms
-CSR platforms being used as an advertising tool
-"Capitalism with a conscience"

Homework: Quiz based on Chapters 1, 2, 3 (see study guide below). Please read & be ready to discuss Chapter 3. Answer this: A bookworm eats from the first page of the first volume of an encyclopedia collection to the last page of the last volume. The bookworm eats in a straight line. The encyclopedia collection consists of ten 1000-page volumes and is sitting on a bookshelf in the usual order. Not counting covers, title pages, etc., how many pages does the bookworm eat through?


Study Guide (all answers can be found in the book and/or the WebCT notes):
Chapter 1:
-What are the different forms of corporations?
-Explain Jobbers & The Bubble Act
-What are the rights/obligations a corporations has being defined as a "legal person?"
-Explain limited liability and perpetual lifetime
-Explain Corporate Social Responsibility, New Capitalism, Sustainable Development

Chapter 2:
-Can businesses be about more than profits and meet the needs of shareholders, customers, & the environment/community?
-Explain Dodge V. Ford
-How much consideration for the environment should corporations include?
-Explain the Kyoto Protocol
-What does it mean to define corporations as "psychopathic?"
-What are some psychopathic trait of corporations?

Chapter 3:
-What is the title of Chapter 3?