What were some of the main issues and topics that students discussed in the seminar?

Instruction for evaluation paper

 

This seminar focused on the International Day of Happiness.

 

I uploaded Power Point presentation that they used for this day

Please prepare a 2-3 paragraph evaluation of the event. Your evaluation should address the following questions:

  1. What were some of the main issues and topics that students discussed in the seminar?
  2. Please make sure you provide some level of description/detail on these issues and topics. DO NOTjust provide me with a list.
  3. How do these issues and topics relate to our class discussions about environmental ethics (Week #5)? (I will upload the video files for week#5
  4. What are your personal perspectives on some of the issues that Professor Kurtz and his students discussed in the seminar?

 

 

Week#5 videos

Unit 1, Lesson 4, Lecture 1: “Introduction to Environmental Ethics”

(2 minutes) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuF-jsiF330)

Unit 1, Lesson 4, Lecture 2: “Environmental Ethics, Part 1”

(14 minutes) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cm28K7xmnI)

Unit 1, Lesson 4, Lecture 3: “Environmental Ethics, Part 2”

(19 minutes) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYH6zirmTIo)

 

You may find the following resources useful when preparing your response:

Website for the United Nation’s “International Day of Happiness”: http://www.un.org/en/events/happinessday/index.shtml

Website for the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals: http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/

Website for Bhutanese government’s Gross National Happiness project: http://www.gnhcentrebhutan.org/what-is-gnh/

A recent, USA-based National Public Radio (NPR) piece about GNH in Bhutan (You can read and/or listen to the piece via this weblink.): https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2018/02/12/584481047/the-birthplace-of-gross-national-happiness-is-growing-a-bit-cynical