SCHEDULE OF TOPICS

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Part I: The Groundwork

9/4 The Commons

• In the Presence of Fear, Wendell Berry.
• Yes! Issue 18, The Hidden Commons, Jonathan Rowe

www.futurenet.org/18commons/rowe.htm

• The Top 10 Censored Storiesof 2001-2002 (first ten stories) www.projectcensored.org/publications/2003/index.html
• Reader: Silent Theft, David Bollier, ch 10

 

 

NOTE: Additional copies of In the Presence of Fear by Wendell Berry are now available at North Light Books.  If you do not have one you should buy one now, as we plan to ask you to reread the book at the end of the course.

Media awareness: small group discussion

1) Where do you get your news about world, national, and local events? Television news shows, the radio, newspapers, word of mouth, some other source, nowhere? Commercial or noncommercial sources? Can you identify the values behind the sources you tend to rely on? How  do your sources of information influence your views of current events.

2) The media can also influence us more broadly. Our values, what we strive for, our images of ourselves as women and men, our standards of beauty, our images of people of our own race and culture, and those of other races and cultures, and our worldviews are all potentially influenced by media images. How  does your exposure to media, especially television, influenced you in these areas?

• Norberg-Hodge, intro, ch 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

Part II: Sustainable Economics and Social Systems

• Reader: The Birth of the Corporate "I", Kalle Lasn and Tom Liacas
• Norberg-Hodge 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

• Norberg-Hodge 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
• Reader: Globalization and itsDiscontents, Joseph Stiglitz

First paper due (Click here for more information on this  assignment.)

• Arthur Warmoth, "Governing the Commons"
• Bernard Lietaer & Arthur Warmoth, "Designing Bioregional Economies in the Context of Globalixation" at http://ceres.ca.gov/tcsf/pathways/chapter2.html

Reader: The Commercialization of Childhood, Levin and Linn

Sonoma State University Health Care Crisis Project Web Site

Arthur Warmoth. "The Economics of Health Care and the Economics of the Commons"

Reread Wendell Berry, In the Presence of Fear & Arthur Warmoth, "Governing the Commons"

Toward The Politics of Trust: Placing the Person at the Center of Politics  (brochure distributed in class)

Reread Yes! Issue 18, "The Hidden Commons," by Jonathan Rowe www.futurenet.org/18commons/rowe.htm

12/4  The Crisis in Higher Education. Ar t Warmoth

Higher Education Lecture Notes

Arthur Warmoth. "Technology and the Postmodern University"

Jeff Gates. "We the Unreasonable" from Tikkun, July/August 2003

Handout: What You Can Do

Michael N. Nagler. The Time for Nonviolence Has Come. Yes, Summer 2003  http://www.futurenet.org/26courage/nagler.htm

Second paper due (click here for information on the assignment)