POL 110J Course Materials (Winter 2012)

Power in American Society (Winter 2012)

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*Syllabus, revised*

Assignment 1 (Take home Midterm)

Assignment 2 (7-page Essay)

Final Exam Review Guide (revised)

Important Dates:
  1. Take-home Midterm distributed : Thursday, February 2nd
  2. Take-home Midterm due: Thursday, February 9th (in class)
  3. Paper Assignment Distributed: Thursday, February 16th (in class)
  4. Paper Due: Thursday, March 1st (in class)
  5. Final: Thursday, March 22nd (3-6pm)
Handouts:
  1. Handout – Reading Supreme Court Decisions
  2. Handout – Paper Writing Guidelines
  3. Handout – Manage Anxiety
  4. Midterm Grading Rubric
Poetry Potpourri for the Course:
  1. “Born into This” by Charles Bukowski
  2. “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” by Julia Ward Howe
  3. “I, Too” by Langston Hughes
  4. “Chicago” by Carl Sandburg
  5. “The Unknown Citizen” by W.H. Auden
  6. “Waiting for the Barbarians” by C.P. Cavafy
  7. “The Laughing Heart” by Charles Bukowski
  8. “Democracy” by Leonard Cohen
Readings:
January 10th, Tuesday
  1. No Readings Today
January 12th, Thursday
  1. The Declaration of Independence
  2. Thomas Paine – Common Sense
  3. Federalist Papers – Chapters 1 & 10
January 17th, Tuesday
  1. Frederick Douglas – What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
  2. Abraham Lincoln – Temperance Speech
  3. Abraham Lincoln – Gettysburg Address
  4. James Henry Hammond – Mudsill Speech
  5. John C. Calhoun – Slavery a Positive Good
January 19th, Thursday
  1. W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk, chs. 1, 3, 6
  2. Plessy v Ferguson
  3. Booker T. Washington – Atlanta
  4. Listen to “Strange Fruit” by Billie Holiday
January 24th, Tuesday
  1. W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk, chs. 8-13
January 26th, Thursday
  1. No Readings Today, lecture cancelled
  2. Only Optional, if you like: watch D.W. Griffith’s “The Birth of a Nation“.
January 31st, Tuesday
  1. William Graham Sumner – What do the Social Classes Owe to each Other?
  2. Andrew Carnegie – Wealth
  3. Lochner v New York
  4. Watch clip from Charlie Chaplin’s “Modern Times”
February 2nd, Thursday
  1. Midterm Distributed TODAY
  2. Jane Addams – Twenty Years at Hull House
  3. Herbert Croly – The Promise of American Life
  4. “Chicago” by Carl Sandburg
February 7th, Tuesday
  1. Eugene V. Debs – Unionism and Socialism
  2. Daniel De Leon – James Madison and Karl Marx
  3. Listen to Woody Guthrie’s “Jesus Christ” and “This Land is Your Land“.
February 9th, Thursday
  1. Midterm Due TODAY
  2. Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man: Prologue and chapters 1, 2, 6, 8-10
February 14th, Tuesday
  1. Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man: Chapters 13, 14, 16, 20-25 and the Epilogue
February 16th, Thursday
  1. Martin Luther King, Jr. – Nonviolence and Racial Justice
  2. Martin Luther King, Jr. – Letter from a Birmingham Jail
  3. Martin Luther King, Jr. – Hammer on Civil Rights
  4. Brown v Board of Education
  5. Malcolm X – The Ballot or the Bullet
February 21st, Tuesday
  1. Charlotte Perkins Gilman – The Yellow Wallpaper
  2. Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique, chs. 1-4
February 23rd, Thursday
  1. Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique, chs. 6-10
February 28th, Tuesday
  1. Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique, chs. 11-14
March 1st, Thursday
  1. Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, Introduction, chs. 1 & 2
  2. “Waiting for the Barbarians” by C.P. Cavafy
  3. “The Unknown Citizen” by W.H. Auden
March 6th, Tuesday
  1. Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, chs. 3, 5, 6, 9, 10
  2. If you missed the in-class viewing: “Herbert’s Hippopotamus“
March 8th, Thursday
  1. James Miller, Democracy is in the Streets, (1994)
  2. Hayden et al, The Port Huron Statement (in Miller)
  3. Listen to Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are-a-Changin’” (1964)
March 13th, Tuesday
  1. James Miller, Democracy is in the Streets, (1994)
March 15th, Thursday
  1. James Miller, Democracy is in the Streets, (1994)
  2. Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Celestial Railroad
Lecture Slides
  1. Lecture #01 POL 110J (Bolar) – Power, Authority, and Tyranny
  2. Lecture #02 POL 110J (Bolar) – The Liberal Tradition in America
  3. Lecture #03 POL 110J (Bolar) – Social Contracts and Consent
  4. Lecture #04 POL 110J (Bolar) – Slavery, Dependence, and Liberty
  5. Lecture #05 POL 110J (Bolar) – Race, Equality, Identity, Part 1
  6. Lecture #06 POL 110J (Bolar) – Race, Equality, Identity, Part 2
  7. Lecture #07 POL 110J (Bolar) – Economy and Society
  8. Lecture #08 POL 110J (Bolar) – The Progressive Spirit and the Socialist Alternative
  9. Lecture #09 POL 110J (Bolar) – Recognition and Resistance
  10. Lecture #10 POL 110J (Bolar) – The Brotherhood, Marx, and Campaign Finance Reform
  11. Lecture #11 & 12 POL 110J (Bolar) – Civil Rights
  12. Lecture #13 POL 110J (Bolar) – Malcolm X, Feminism, Liberty
  13. Lecture #14 POL 110J (Bolar) – Positive Liberty and Feminism
  14. Lecture #15 POL 110J (Bolar) – Marcuse’s Milieu
  15. Lecture #16 POL 110J (Bolar) – Marcuse’s One-Dimensional Man
  16. There was no lecture #17 – we watched a movie in class
  17. Lecture #18 POL 110J (Bolar) – SDS, Democracy, and Citizenship, Part 1
  18. Lecture #19 POL 110J (Bolar) – SDS, Democracy, and Citizenship, Part 2
Lecture write-ups
  1. POLI 110J Lecture 1 (write-up) – Power, Authority, and Tyranny
  2. POLI 110J Lecture 2 (write-up) – The Liberal Tradition in America