Reading Schedule Summer 2007 Semester (subject to change)

7-01-08 Tues

Introductions

Syllabus

“In Defense of Elitism” (handout)

7-02 Wed

"A Proposal to Abolish Grading" (p. 791)

"Test for Aptitude, Not Speed" (p. 795)

"The Speech the Graduates Didn't Hear"

7-03 Thurs

"Why We Built the Ivory Tower"  (p. 579)

"Serve of Fail" (p. 583)

"'Moral Suicide,' A la Wolfe" (p. 587)

Quotes from Emerson's "The American Scholar"

7-07 Mon

"Should Undergraduates Specialize?" (p. 591)

"Re-imagining Liberal Education" (p. 597)

"The Idea of a University," John Henry Cardinal Newman (sections 1, 2, 5, 6 and 10)

"We Real Cool"

"The Summer Day"

7-08 Tues

What is Happiness?

“Why I Am Happy” (handout)

"In Pursuit of Unhappiness" (p. 959)

“From The Handbook” p. 963

“The Happy Life” p. 965

“Inner Contentment” p. 967

"We Have No 'Right to Happiness,'" p. 970

“About Love” p. 975

7-09 Wed

"Against the Odds, and Against the Common Good" (p. 112)

TBA

7-10 Thurs

"Introduction," The Content of Our Character

"I'm Black, You're White, Who's Innocent"

Shelby Steele podcasts

7-14 Mon

"On Being Black and Middle Class," Shelby Steele

"White Guilt," Shelby Steele

7-15 Tues

"Affirmative Action:  The Price of Preference," Shelby Steele

"It's Past Time to Speak Out" (handout)

Chapter 16

7-16 Wed

 “Letters From An American Farmer”  St. Jean De Crevecoeur

“The Declaration of Independence” p. 856

"Five Myths about Immigration" (p. 695)

7-17 Thurs

“America” (Tony Hoagland)

“Let America Be America Again,” 871

“The Unknown Citizen” p. 869

"What They Wanted" (Stephen Dunn, handout)

“The Life Cycle of the Common Man” (handout)

7-21 Mon

“Why I Don’t Spare ‘Spare Change’” p. 253

“Famine, Affluence, and Morality” p. 390

7-22 Tues

“Lifeboat Ethics:  The Case Against Helping the Poor” p. 402

"The Christian Paradox:  How a Faithful Nation Gets Jesus Wrong" (August 2005 Harper's in InfoTrac Onefile)

 7-23 Wed

What is the Ideal Society?

“From Utopia” p. 834

“I Have a Dream” p. 865

7-24 Thurs

 Begin The Gutenburg Elegies

read both Introductions (2006 and 1996)

"MahVuhHuhPuh"

 7-28 Mon

"The Owl Has Flown"

"The Woman in the Garden"

"Paging the Self"

7-29 Tues

7-30 Wed

7-31 Thurs

"Letter from a Birmingham Jail," p. 910

8-04 Mon

Final Exam