The Wealth and Poverty theme announces two newly developed courses addressing issues of wealth and poverty.
For questions about Wealth and Poverty theme courses and certificate courses, contact Dr. Yeong Kim, Associate Professor of Geography and theme coordinator, at kimy1@ohio.edu.
CAS 2402x Transitions – From Campus to Career Success to Wealth Creation & Protection
MW 12:55-1:50 p.m.
Instructor: Alan McMillian
This course illuminates a path that can lead from campus, to career success, to financial independence. The twentysomething years are highly consequential and in particular one can gain huge advantage by managing the move from campus to career economics. Students learn both the pitfalls and advantages by their post campus decisions as they navigate this critical inflection point. It begins with leveraging the campus years to become highly employable, while bettering one’s odds at multiple job offers by graduation. It moves into thriving in your new role. With the volatility of the workplace, it covers how to replace that role efficiently if need be (either by voluntary or involuntary job loss). Techniques are introduced on how a prepare for inevitable economic shocks (recession or unexpected disruption of employment). Then we illustrate how to be smart with the money one makes, while building a plan to financial independence over time, that the student clearly understands.
HIST 2300: Capitalism and its Critics: An Intellectual History
Tier II Social Sciences (2SS)
TTh noon-1:20 p.m.
Instructors: Robert Ingram and Brian Schoen
This course traces the ideas and practices that created the capitalist system in early modern Europe, saw its eventual rise to dominance by the late nineteenth century, and in so doing generated and continues to generate considerable criticism and a vibrant debate. This course both engages contemporary concerns and provides an historical account of the ideas and patterns of practice that shaped western and world economic culture from the sixteenth to the end of the twentieth century. It challenges students to understand capitalism less as a hegemonic, clearly-defined force, but rather as a multi-faceted concept that has, throughout history and in our own time informed the beliefs and actions of kings, philosophers, economists, producers, consumers, and citizens.
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