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Office Hours:
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appointment.
Debate
Guidelines
Debate
groups (both section 1 & 2)
Course Description
While the topics of this course can be quite abstract, the focus in our class will be on how these ideas influence contemporary policy debates. The class discussions then will be quite grounded and will concern current issues.
Course
Requirements and Grading Criterion
University
Non-Discrimination Statement
All of the readings for this course are available on-line. No book needs to be purchased by students nor rented from the textbook library.
COURSE OUTLINE:
Week 1
(Tuesdays,
9/2/03 or Wednesdays, 9/3/03)
Introduction and Course expectations
Definition of concepts intro
notes
Week 2 (Tuesdays, 9/9/03 or Wednesday, 9/10/03)
A. Classical Liberalism
John Locke, The
Second
Treatise of Government (excerpts)
John Stuart Mill. On
Liberty (excerpts)
Safire, William. June 2002 J.
Edgar Mueller
Garrow, David. 9/23/01. The
Rule of Fear
Week 3
(Tuesday,
9/16/03 or Wednesday, 9/17/03)
Week
4
(Tuesday, 9/23/03 or Wednesday, 9/24/03)
B. Welfare State Liberalism
Franklin Delano Roosevelt. 1937. Campaign
Address
Krugman, Paul. 2001. Reckonings:
Paying the Price
Frank, Robert. 2002 The
Case For Sanctions
Helmsley, Robert. 2002. Losing
My Stake in the Economy
notes on welfare state liberalism
classical
liberal questions (section 1- due 9/24/03, sect. 2, 9/30/03)
II.
Conservatism
Week 5
(Tuesday,
9/30/03 or Wednesday, 10/1/03)
Week 6
(Tuesday,
10/7/03 or Wednesday, 10/8/03)
Notes on Historical Conservatism
questions
on welfare state liberalism- due Wednesday, 10/15/03 (sect. 1) and due
Tuesday, 10/14/03 (sect. 2)
A.
Historical Conservatism
Edmund Burke. Reflections
on the Revolution in France
Alexis DeTocqueville. Democracy
in America
Week 7
(Tuesday,
10/14/03 or Wednesday, 10/15/03)
Week
8 (Tuesday, 10/21/03 or Wednesday, 10/22/03)
B. Economic Conservatism--Libertarianism
Friedman, Milton. Economic
Freedom, Human Freedom, Political Freedom
Rosen, Jeffey. 2001. Being
Watched: A Cautionary Tale in An Age of Surveillance
Thompson,
Nicholas. 9/29/03. Netflix
Uses Speed to Fend Off Wal-Mart Challenge
Week 9 (Tuesday, 10/28/03 or Wednesday, 10/29/03)
C. Cultural Conservatism--Communitarianism
George Washington University. 2003. The
Communitarian Vision
Libraw, Oliver. 7/2003. Matthew
1040
Brooks, David. 11/25/01. The
Push to Institutionalize Giving Back May Transform a Generation
go to Christian Coalition website
notes
on cultural conservatism
questions
on libertarianism--(due, 11/04/03, for section 2 and 11/12/03 for
section
1)
Week 10
(Tuesday,
11/4/03 or Wednesday, 11/5/03)
Week
11 (Tuesday, 11/11/03 or Wednesday, 11/12/03)
questions on communitarianism- for sect. 2- due Tuesday, 11/25/03, sect. 1, due 12/2/03
III.
Radicalism
A.
Communism and Socialism
Marx and Engels, The
Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx The
German
Ideology
Weinstein, David. 2000. America's
Rags to Riches Myth
notes on historical and modern socialism
Week 12
(Tuesday,
11/18/03 or Wednesday, 11/19/03)
Week 13
(Tuesday, 11/25/03) (No class, section 1. Thanskgiving Break)
B.
Social Democracy and Socialism,
Ehrenreich, Barbara. 2001. Those
Who Don't Get By .
go
to Socialist Party
Strom,
Stephanie.
11/16/03. For
Middle
Class, Health Insurance Becomes a Luxury
Week 14
(Wednesday,
12/3/03)
B.
Social Democracy and Socialism, (cont.)
Ehrenreich, Barbara. 2001. Those
Who Don't Get By .
go to Socialist Party
Week
15
(Tuesday, 12/9/03 or Wednesday, 12/10/03)
IN-CLASS
DEBATES
Week 16
(Wednesday,
12/17/03)
IN-CLASS
DEBATES