COURSE SCHEDULE
Please note: Readings are due on the dates listed below.
Week 1
18 January
20
W
F
Welcome, Introductions, Syllabus
Reading as a Process, pp.26-35
Week 2
23
M
25
W
27
F
Read “Social Experiment: Know Thy Neighbor” by Peter
Lovenheim, pg. 152
Reading Response Due
Read “The Perfect Family” by Alice Hoffman, pg. 274
Reading Response Due
Lab: Socratic Seminar
Read “Cutting N-Word from Twain Is Not Censorship” by
Boyce Watkins, pg. 117
Reading Response Due
Week 3
30
M
Read “Take the N-Word Out of ‘Huck Finn’? It’s an Insult to
Mark Twain—and to American History” by Shelley Fisher
Fishkin, pg. 122
Reading Response Due
1 February
W
3
F
First Essay Assigned, Issues
Lovenheim, Hoffman, Watkins/Fishkin
Lab: Socratic Seminar
Nutshell Statement
Week 4
6
8
M
W
10
F
Week 5
13
15
M
W
17
F
Draft of First Essay and Peer Commentary
Summary Introduced
Lab: Socratic Seminar
First Essay Due
Conferences
Read “The Ghetto Made Me Do It” by Francis Flaherty, pg. 163
Summary Due
Lab: Socratic Seminar
Read “Seeking the Roots of Violence” by Anastasia Toufexis,
pg. 168
Summary Due
Week 6
20
22
24
M
W
F
No Classes
No Classes
No Classes
Week 7
27
M
29
W
2 March
F
Read “The Great Divide” by Michael Quintanilla, pg. 192
Reading Response Due
Second Essay Assigned, Issues
Flaherty, Toufexis, Quintanilla
Lab: Socratic Seminar
Draft of Second Essay and Peer Commentary
Week 8
5
7
M
W
9
F
Week 9
12
M
14
W
16
F
Week 10
19
21
M
W
23
F
Second Essay Due
Read “Veiled Intentions: Don’t Judge a Muslim Girl by Her
Covering” by Maysan Haydar, pg. 179
and “Differences in Cross-Cultural Communication Styles”
by John W. Adams, pg. 187
Reading Response Due
Lab: Socratic Seminar
Midterm Examination
Third Essay Assigned, Issues, and Nutshell Statement
Haydar or Adams
Draft of Third Essay and Peer Commentary
Lab: Socratic Seminar
Third Essay Due
Conferences
“Shut Up About My Truck” by Ace Atkins
Reading Response Due
Lab: Socratic Seminar
Read “Memories of a Sweet, Lethal, Smoke-Filled Home” by
Dean P. Johnson, pg. 232
Summary Due
Week 11
26
28
30
M
W
F
No Classes
No Classes
No Classes
Week 12
2 April
M
4
W
6
F
Read “Evil Weed or Useful Drug?” by Judy Foreman, pg. 240
Reading Response Due
Read “Two Cheers for Sweatshops” by Kristof and WuDunn,
pg. 333
Summary Due
Read “The Dumbing of America” by Susan Jacoby, pg. 364
Lab: Socratic Seminar
Read “Is a Green World a Safer World?” by David J. Rothkopf,
pg. 415
Summary Due
Week 13
9
M
11
13
W
F
Week 14
16
M
18
W
20
F
Week 15
23
25
M
W
27
F
Read “Television Humiliation” by Adam Cohen, pg. 375
Reading Response Due
No Classes
Read “The Issue Isn’t Sex, It’s Violence” by Caryl Rivers, pg. 358
Summary Due
Fourth Essay Assigned, Issues
Atkins, Johnson, Foreman, Kristof and WuDunn, Jacoby,
Rothkopf, Cohen or Rivers
Draft of Fourth Essay and Peer Commentary
Lab: Socratic Seminar
Fourth Essay Due
Conferences
Read “Bottomless Drinking Ban on College Campuses” by Lis
Wiehl, pg. 246
Reading Response Due
Lab: Socratic Seminar
Read “Call Me Crazy, But I Have to Be Myself” by Mary Seymour
pg. 129
Summary Due
Week 16
30
2 May
M
W
4
F
Grammar and Punctuation
Grammar and Punctuation
Lab: Socratic Seminar
Portfolios Due
This syllabus is subject to change.