Part I.  The Promise of Multicultural Society:  Social and Cultural Perspectives

   1 (8/27)

Lecture:  Orientation to the Class & The Cognitive Basis of Social Systems --Art Warmoth.   Lecture Notes for this lecture are on reserve in the library.

Keirsey-Bates Temperament Sorter.  A few extra copies of the Temperament Sorter, along with all handouts, are in the envelope on the door of 3093.  If more are needed see Art Warmoth.
 

Selections from Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston

Arthur Warmoth.  Culture, Somas and Human Development (from Somatics Magazine/Journal)

Clifford Geertz.   Excerpts from Ch. 3. The Growth of Culture and the Evolution of Mind, and Ch 4. Religion as a Cultural System (from The Interpretation of Cultures)

Peter L. Mangione.  Culture as a Process (from A Guide to Culturally Sensitive Care)

Brenetta Ward-Rader.  The Nature of Identity

 Elaine Leeder. Ch. 3. Theories on the Family (from The Family in Global Perspective)

Carlos Fuentes.  Introduction (from The Buried Mirror)

Eduardo Obregón Pagán. Ch. 3. Genealogy of a Crisis (from Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon)

Alice Walker.  Selection from The Color Purple

Elaine Leeder. Ch. 4. The History of the Family in the United States (from The Family in Global Perspective)

Edward T. Hall.  Ch. 6. Context and Meaning, and Ch. 7. Contexts, High and Low (from Beyond Culture)

José Ortega y Gasset.  Excerpt from Ch. 4. History as a System (from History as a System)

   Week

   7 (10/8)  --Midterm Exam [60 Minutes]
                --Lecture: Race, Ethnicity, Xenophobia, and Racism--Elaine Leeder [90 minutes]

 Elaine Leeder.  Ch. 7. Race, Class, Ethnicity, Caste, and Family Life (from The Family in Global Perspective)

Tom Hayden.  Ch. 3. The Peace Process (from Street Wars)

 Anne-Marie Cusac.  Abu Ghraib, USA.  The Progressive (July 2004)

 Ch. 29 (from B. F. Skinner.  Walden Two)

•  Lawrence H. Fuchs.  Mr. Huntington’s Nightmare. The American Prospect (August 2004)

  Week

  11 (11/5)  Not for Ourselves Alone, Pt. 1 (Ken Burns on Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony)  [90 minutes]

• Declaration of Independence & U.S. Constitution (including the Bill of Rights and the Civil War Amendments)
• Abraham Lincoln.
• Cooper Union Address
• Gettysburg Address
• Second Inaugural Address

• Martin Luther King, “I have a Dream”
• The Civil Rights Act of 1964
• United Nation Universal Declaration of Human Rights

• Marija Gimbutas. Excerpt from The Living Goddesses

Baba Copper.  The Voice of Women’s Spirituality in Futurism

  14 (12/3)  Mindwalk [110 Minutes]. Hand out take-home final*.

• Nancy F. W. Passmore.  A Consciousness Manifesto
• Paolo Friere (adapted by Thomas Wilson).  Levels of Consciousness
• Reread “Culture, Somas and Human Development” from Reader Number 1
• Isabel Allende.  Chile in My Heart (from My Invented Country)

  Final--Wednesday, December 15, 11-12:50:  Turn in final*.  Groups organize their own closing.

*Final will be a take-home final that can be completed by groups or individuals.