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Project Presentations: schedule

The web-x sites are now available for posting the revised Project Descriptions. Please turn in two hard copies, as well.

Wednesday, June 4, 9-12, Project Presentations will be in Library 4300.

Thursday, June 5, 10-1, Project Presentations will be in LH 3.

The books marked with an asterisk (*) have been ordered by the Evergreen Book Store. Shorter excerpts will be place on reserve in the library.

We will be reading selections from each of these books:

*Coontz, Stephanie. The Way We Never Were (Basic Books: ISBN 0-465-09097-4)

*Isaac, Katherine. Civics for Democracy (Essential Books: ISBN 0-936758-32-5)

*King Jr., Martin Luther. A Testament of Hope (Harper San Francisco: ISBN 0-06-064691-8)

*Laslett, Peter (ed.). Locke: Two Treatises of Government (Cambridge UP: ISBN 0-521-35730-6)

*MacPherson, CB (ed.). Hobbes: Leviathan (Penguin: ISBN 0-14-143195-0)

Monk, Linda R. The Words We Live By: Your Annotated guide to the Constitution (Hyperion: ISBN 0-7868-6720-5)

*Plato. The Trial an Death of Socrates (Dover: ISBN 0-486-27066-1)

*Putnam, Robert D. Bowling Alone (Simon & Schuster: ISBN 0-7432-0304-6)

*Rousseau, Jean Jacques. The Social Contract (Penguin: ISBN 0-14-144201-4)

Selznick, Philip. The Moral Commonwealth (U. of Calif. Press: ISBN 0-520-08934-0)

Sennett, Richard. The Fall of Public Man (Knopf: ISBN0-394-48715-X)

*Thoreau, Henry David. “Civil Disobedience” and Other Essays (Dover: ISBN 0-486-27563-9)

Tomlinson, John. Globalization and Culture (U. of Chicago: ISBN 0-226-80768-1)

Villa, Dana. Socractic Citizenship (Princeton: ISBN 0-691-08693-1)

Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse Five (Laurel Books: ISBN 0-440-18029-5)

The following essays and articles will also be assigned. Copies will be placed on reserve:

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "On Self Reliance"

Fraser, Nancy. "Beyond the Master/Subject Model: On Carole Pateman's The Sexual Contract"

Fraser, Nancy and Linda Gordon. "A Genealogy of Dependency: Tracing a Keyword of the U.S. Welfare State."

Orwell, George. “Politics and the English Language”

Pateman, Carol. "The Fraternal Social Contract"

Peltman, Jan Jindy. "Globalization and the Gendered Politics of Citizenship"

Villa, Dana. "What is Socratic Citizenship?" from Socratic Citizenship

National Platform of the Libertarian Party

Platform of The Libertarian Party of Washington State

The Republican Contract with America