Course Schedule and Assignments

 

January

13               Merle Curti, “Intellectuals and Other People,” (Presentation by Kohler, Class discussion)

15                   Introduce Darwin and theory of evolution, (Presentation by Kohler, class discussion)

20               Class discussion

22               Herbert Spencer, William Graham Sumner (Presentations by Ayana,Willina)

27               Pragmatism, Charles Peirce, John Dewey  (Presentations by Kohler, Heather, Tara)

29              William James, Thorstein Veblen (Presentations by Kohler, Chrisi,

February

3                Oliver Wendell Holmes, Frederick Jackson Turner  (Presentations by Clay, Chhaya, )

5                Lester Frank Ward, Walter Rauschenbush  (Travis, Clay)

10              Hebert Croly, Henry Demorest Lloyd, Jane Addams  (Ayana, Jeff, Willina)

      12              Cultural Conservatism, The Agrarians, Donald Davidson (Kohler)

17              Cultural Conservatism, The Agrarians, Donald Davidson (Kohler)

19                            First Exam

24              Review test, John Crowe Ransom (Jeff) Laissez Faire Revisited, Max Weber (Travis) Milton Freedman (Chrisi)

26              Ayn Rand (Tara) Reinhold Neibuhr (Heather)

March

2               Spring Break

4                Spring Break

9                                Daniel Bell (Chhaya), Daniel Boorstin (Willina)

11               Liberalism/Socialism/Modernism, David Lilianthal (Chrisi), Michael Harrington (Clay), John Kenneth Galbraith, (Jeff)

16              Gunner Myrdall (Travis), Margaret Mead (Heather),  

18                            C.Wright Mills (Tara) Port Huron Statement (All),

23              W.W. Rostow (Chhaya), Noam Chomsky (Ayana)

25              Second Exam

30                            Exam Review, Start Books on the Sixties, Willina Clark, Theodore Roszak, The Making of a Counter Culture,Heather Felice, Charles A. Reich, The Greening of America

April

       1               Tara Krisher, Terry H. Anderson, The Movement and the Sixties; Chrisi Davis, Tod Gitlin, The Sixties

       6               Travis Copeland, Timothy Miller, The Hippies and American Values

       8               Start Books on Neoconservatism; Jeff Whitfield, Norman Podhoretz, Breaking Ranks; Chhaya Sei, Irving Kristal, Neoconservatism, The Autobiography of an Idea

      13              Ayana Wisdom-Johnson, John Ehrman, The Rise of Neoconservatism, Intellectuals and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1994; Clay Davis, George H. Nash, The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America

15              Role of African Americans, Booker T. Washington (Willina), W.E.B. Dubois (Travis)

20              Martin Luther King (Chrisi), Malcolm X (Heather)

22              Role of Women, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Presentations by Tara, Chhaya)

27              Betty Friedan (Jeff), Nancy Chodorow (Ayana), Judith Butler (Clay)

29              Review

Final           Final Book Review due on Final Exam date.

 

 

Summary of Assignments:

  1. Willina Clark
    1. William Graham Sumner
    2. Jane Addams
    3. Daniel Boorstin
    4. Booker T. Washington
  2. Travis Copeland
    1. Lester Frank Ward
    2. Max Weber
    3. Gunnar Myrdall
    4. W.E.B. DuBois
  3. Chrisi Davis
    1. Thorstein Veblen
    2. Milton Freidman
    3. David Lilianthal
    4. Martin Luther King
  4. Clay Davis
    1. Oliver Wendell Holmes
    2. Walter Rauschenbush
    3. Michael Harrington
    4. Judith Butler
  5. Heather Felice
    1. Charles Peirce
    2. Reinhold Neibuhr
    3. Margaret Mead
    4. Malcolm X
  6. Tara Krisher
    1. William James
    2. Ayn Rand
    3. C. Wright Mills
    4. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  7. Chhaya Sei
    1. Frederick Jackson Turner 
    2. Daniel Bell
    3. W.W. Rostow
    4. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  8. Jeff Whitfield
    1. Henry Demorest Lloyd
    2. John Crowe Ransom
    3. John Kenneth Galbraith
    4. Betty Friedan
  9. Ayana Wisdom-Johnson
    1. Herbert Spencer
    2. Hebert Croly
    3. Noam Chomsky
    4. Nancy Chodorow