Splash Biography
WILLIAM ZENG, ESP Teacher
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Major: Economics College/Employer: University of Chicago Year of Graduation: 2012 |
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Brief Biographical Sketch:
I graduated from Walter Payton College Prep in 2008 and will be a first year student at the University of Chicago. I have been involved in many organizations in my community and high school, and will continue volunteering in the public services as well as commercial and financial organizations. My interests lie in public policy, economics, international/multicultural studies, philosophy, and psychology. List of Organizations School: Community: Other: Past Classes(Clicking a class title will bring you to the course's section of the corresponding course catalog)C257: The Equation of the Urban Poor in Splash! 2008 (Oct. 04, 2008)
In this class we will discuss how the marginalization of peoples, governmental policies /laws, and modern capitalism each play a role in creating the urban poor as we know it in America. In this class we will start off by summarizing text including: Black Skin White Mask, Freakonomics, Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor, Naked Economics, and Essay’s by Cornell West. We will also show various clips of Milton Friedman’s Free to Chose series from youtube.com. Students will then participate in an open discussion as to how we can solve these issues that are affecting the poorest members of society. Students are encouraged to draw from their personal experiences. The goal of the class is for the student to believe that they can do something to change their communities and help deter the inequality in our urban areas.
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