Great first week of class! I especially enjoyed our discussion on Thursday, which I found very stimulating. I am quite impressed with the level of discourse and am glad to see so many of you participating in such a constructive dialogue. I think the current events in the Middle East tie in so nicely with our opening unit that we would be foolish to ignore them. In order to incorporate those more fully into our plans we will forego the Palmer text for this coming week. Here's the plan:
Tuesday, Sept 18
- Read: NY Times article
- Lecture: Europe, the Middle East and Modernity
- Homework: follow the news on protests in the Middle East over the weekend, and...
- Discuss: Joan Scott - Individualism
Thursday, Sept 20
- Read: photocopied packet distributed in class
- Lecture: Social Movement Theory
- Discuss: Joan Scott - Sexuality
- Homework: read the documents in the DBQ on immigration and identify:
- the basic meaning of each
- the perspective of the author
- three docs for POV analysis
- three proposed groups
