InstructionTopic #1: Racial Inequality and Healthcare Consider the short news clip on life expectancy declines in white Americans and use the Smedley article, In Sickness and In Wealth video, and/or the How did We Get Here? comic to explain the compounded disadvantage that racial minorities face. Explain why the findings on white Americans have garnered such publicity while other racial groups may have not in the past or even today. Learning Goals: Conceptual - Be sure to demonstrate your understanding of the social, not biological, nature of race as a category. Application - Be sure to demonstrate your ability to analyze the relationship between race, class and health care drawing from examples in the readings and film. Structure - Be sure to provide a well-written, proofread and organized discussion of the questions asked. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78ntgGOiW8A Topic #2: The Business of Education After you have watched College, Inc. (Links to an external site.). you should consider the various effects of privatizing education. For your post, you should 1) Outline some of the negative effects of moving education from a public institution to a private for profit model. 2) With these negative effects in mind, why is it that we are continuing to move in this direction? Be sure to include a discussion of public policy decisions and the power dynamics at play. 3) Considering our previous discussions of inequality (class, race and/or gender) in Heiner and other materials, how can for-profit education reinforce inequality in America? What can we collectively do to change this? Learning Goals: Conceptual - Be sure to identify the negative effects of privatizing education. Application - Be sure to demonstrate your ability to analyze the relationship between educational access and the reproduction of inequality in the US. Structure - Be sure to provide a well-written, proofread and organized discussion of the questions asked. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/collegeinc/