Complete the assignments before coming to class that day, and be prepared to answer questions about them and to discuss them with your peers. Bring your assigned readings to class. There will also be one required film, The Namesake.
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Topic |
Reading(s) & Assignments |
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Aug. 26 |
Welcome/CIRP |
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Aug. 28 |
How is college different? Digital Literacies: a) Who Are We? b) Course Blog |
Meiland (1) DL: Google Class Survey Register for Course |
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Aug. 30 |
Critical thinking 1 DL: a) what is an online persona? b) start blogging |
Rampton and Stauber (2) DL: Online persona Write 300-400 word blog post on R&S and/or Meiland (CP 10 points) Sign up for Blog Post & Responses dates online |
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2 |
Sept. 2 |
No class: Labor Day |
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Sept. 4 |
The power of education DL: introduction to Zotero |
Douglass (3) Hernandez (4) DL: Go to Zotero.org |
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Sept. 6 |
Critical thinking 2 |
Mill (5) Updated 9/4: Bring a news story (or post a link to a news story to the blog) about free speech; if you post: click the Free Speech category when you make your post; (CP 5 points to bring/post article) DL: Fill out your |
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3 |
Sept. 9 |
Perspectives on knowledge |
Asimov (7) Popper (online HERE) DL: Fix your assigned bibliographic |
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Sept. 11 |
Ethical perspectives Training the mind: A Buddhist perspective |
Sandel (11) Bandura (12) Strong (9) The Dhammapada (online) |
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Sept. 13 |
Writing workshop 1a: DL: using Zotero for citations |
Sadler (10) Tiger Lore (online HONOR CODE) |
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4 |
Sept. 16 |
Writing workshop 1b: |
Paper 1 due: review |
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Sept. 18 |
Community and technology Sexual conduct and consent |
Turkle (23) McGregor (13) |
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Sept. 19 (Thurs) |
Extra Credit:  Colliver Lecture on Religion “Why Did the Early Christians Die as Martyrs?” Prof. Candida Moss, U. of Notre Dame DeRosa Center Ballroom, 7 pm |
EC: Write a blog post by 5 pm Friday; bonus points toward |
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Sept. 20 |
Religion and Science
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Einstein (6) Haught (8) |
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5 |
Sept. 23 |
Arts experience (pre-event discussion) |
Revised Paper 1 Due |
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Sept. 25 |
Identity |
Chan (14) Staples (15) MacIntosh (16) |
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Sept 26 (Thurs) |
Performing Arts Experience:  Fiddler on the Roof, Stockton Civic REQUIRED |
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Sept. 27 |
Arts experience (post-event discussion) |
No readings; Blog post of analysis due Monday |
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6 |
Sept. 30 |
On the borderlands of identity |
Anzaldua (17) Fayad (18) Frazier (19) Blog analysis of Fiddler due |
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Oct. 2 |
Family traditions |
Ojeda (20) Silko (21) |
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Oct. 4 |
No class: Fall break |
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7 |
Watch The Namesake this week if you haven’t already |
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Oct. 7 |
Traditions shifting (marriage) |
Coontz (22) |
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Oct. 9 |
Writing Workshop Also discussion of The |
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Oct. 11 |
Writing workshop 2: |
Paper 2 Deadline A |
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8 |
Oct. 14 |
The development of liberal individualism |
Locke (28) Declaration of Independence (29) Paper 2 Deadline B |
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Oct. 16 |
Inequalities in schooling |
Kozol (25) |
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Oct. 18 |
Paper 2 Deadline C |
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9 |
Oct. 21 |
The moral decline argument |
Elshtain (30) |
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Oct. 23 |
Citizenship and inequality |
Glenn (31) Alexander (33) Hughes (36) |
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Oct. 25 |
Obedience to the law? |
Lincoln (34) MLK (35) |
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10 |
Oct. 28 |
TBA |
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Oct. 30 |
TBA |
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Nov. 1 |
The courts and same-sex marriage |
DOMA opinions (DOMA_Decisions) |
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11 |
Nov. 4 |
Writing workshop 3 |
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Nov. 6 |
Environmental inequalities |
Sciotte (26) Leslie (online HERE) |
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Nov. 8 |
Pluralism and religious diversity |
Eck (39) |
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12 |
Nov. 11 |
Work and economics
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Ehrenreich (44)
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Nov. 13 |
Consumerism and identity Writing workshop 4: Revision, style |
Kilbourne (24) Paper 3 Deadline A |
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Nov. 15 |
Economics of food |
Pollan (41) |
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13 |
Nov. 18 |
Environment and ethics |
Wapner (45) Muir (46) Paper 3 Deadline B |
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Nov. 20 |
Disruptions of globalization |
Enloe (47) Duhigg and Barbozza |
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Nov. 22 |
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Paper 3 Deadline C |
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14 |
Nov. 25 |
Science, art, and the world |
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Nov. 27 |
No class: |
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Nov. 29 |
No class: |
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15 |
Dec. 2 |
Sustainability |
52.+Sustainability+Primer (52; online) Sarfina (53) |
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Dec. 4 |
What to do? |
Ryan and Durning (54) Maniates (55) Goodall (56) |
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Dec. 6 |
Looking across borders
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Appiah (57) Final Blog Post Due |
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* Because sections are free to choose their own common arts experience, the two days
devoted to the arts experience are actually floating days and should be
inserted before and after the event with the remaining schedule moved forward
or backward to accommodate them.