1. What is affirmative action?

2. When did this concept first arise?

3. How is a quota different from an affirmative action plan?

4. Why would a company voluntarily institute an affirmative action plan?

5. What is meant by equal employment opportunity?

6. Explain the affirmative action plan guidelines for the private sector.

7. Recognize that you must be qualified to be hired under an affirmative action plan.

8. Learn that if a quota system is employed, as in the Bakke case, it will result in reverse discrimination.

9. Appreciate the argument that the existence of a disparate impact against a class of people because of race or sex can be obliterated only through an affirmative action program.

10. Understand the opposing position that giving preferential treatment to people because of their race or sex is in violation of the Equal Protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.