The Politics of

Sin and Punishment

Covenant

Syllabus

Winter 2002

Spring 2002

Faculty and Staff

Links


Mario A. Caro, Lab II 3265, x6612, carom@evergreen.edu.
Jean Eberhardt, Lib 1401, x5112, eberharj@evergreen.edu.
Carol Minugh, Lab I 1023, x6025, minughc@evergreen.edu.
Julianne Unsel, Sem 3167, x5496, unselj@evergreen.edu.

REQUIRED READINGS:

  • Joseph T. Hallinan, Going Up the River: Travels in a Prison Nation (2001).
  • Stephanie Guilloud, ed., Through the Eyes of the Judged (2001).
  • Leonard Peltier, Prison Writings: My Life is My Sundance (1999).
  • Fox Butterfield, All God’s Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence (1996).
  • bell hooks, All About Love (2000).
  • James S. Hirsch, Hurricane: The Miraculous Journey of Rubin Carter (2000).
  • Barbara Owen, In the Mix: Struggle and Survival in a Women’s Prison (1998).
  • Christian Parenti, Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis (2001).
  • William Finnegan, Cold New World: Growing Up in a Harder Country (1999).
  • James T. Patterson, America’s Struggle against Poverty in the 20th Century (2000).
  • Lisa Cartwright and Markita Sturken, Practices of Looking (2001).
  • Reading Packet

All required texts are available for purchase at the college bookstore and on-line at various retail sites.  Additional readings marked RESERVED READINGS in the syllabus are to be found in a photocopied course reader available for purchase at the college bookstore and on closed reserve at the college library.

PROGRAM ASSIGNMENTS:

  • Weekly seminar papers – 1-2 pages.
  • Writing assignments.
  • Mid-term arts project.
  • Module assignments.
  • Portfolio – student’s comprehensive files and study log for the term.

This core program is reading and writing intensive and incorporates artistic projects as part of the learning process.  All program tasks must be completed to full earn credits.  All formal papers must be typed or printed in a reasonable font and double-spaced.  Class attendance and participation are required.

EVALUATION CRITERIA:

  • Interest and participation in program content and activities.
  • Seminar preparation and discussion.
  • Learning and academic growth.
  • Merit and academic performance, including timeliness with assignments.

WEEKLY SCHEDULE

Monday

Visual studies lecture, 10-12, Lecture Hall 1
Integration seminars, 1-3, Lib 2101, Lib 2103, Lib 2130

Tuesday

Photography module, 9-12, Dark Room & Lib 2130
Media studies module, 1-4, Lecture Hall 3
Gateways module, 12-4, Maple Lane

Thursday

Writing class, 1:30-3:30, Cab 108

Friday

US history lecture, 10-12, Lecture Hall 3
Reading seminars, 1-3, Lib 1505, Lib 1509, Lib 4004
Group activities, 3-5, Lib 1612

WEEK 1, Sept 24-28 – INTRODUCTIONS

Mon, Sept 24
10-12, Lecture Hall 1 / -- Introductions, preparation for field trips.

1-3, Lib 2101, Lib 2103, Lib 2130 / -- Seminar introductions - Getting to know each other.

Tues, Sept 25

8 am – 8 pm / -- Field trips to state corrections facilities: Greenhill, Maple Lane, Purdy, McNeil Island.

Thurs, Sept 27

1:30 –3:30, Cab 108 / -- Writing class - College writing at Evergreen.

Fri, Sept 28

10-12, Lecture Hall 3 / -- Lecture - Program introduction and goals; intro to concepts.


1-3, Lib 1505, Lib 1509, Lib 4004 / -- Reading seminars –

READING: Hallinan, Going Up the River.

3-5, Lib 1612 / -- Group activities - Getting to know each other.

Film Screening: Easy Rider, Dennis Hopper, 1969.

WEEK 2, Oct 1-5

Mon, Oct 1

10-12, Lecture Hall 1 / -- Visual studies lecture

READING: Practices of Looking, Introduction and Chapter 1

1-3, Lib 2101, Lib 2103, Lib 2130 / -- Integration seminars.

Tues, Oct 2

9-12, Darkroom & Lib 2130 / -- Photography module - introductions and assignment planning.

1-4, Lecture Hall 3 / -- Media studies module.

READING: Stuart Hall, “The Work of Representation,” in Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices, London: Sage Publications, 1997.15-64.

1-4, Maple Lane / -- Gateways module.

Thurs, Oct 4

1:30-3:30, Cab 108 / -- Writing class.

Fri, Oct 5

10-12, Lecture Hall 3 / -- US history lecture – From Redemption to Corrections: Criminal justice and social work in the Progressive Era, 1890-1910. 

READING: America’s Struggle, Intro & Ch 1.

1-3, Lib 1505, Lib 1509, Lib 4004 / -- Reading Seminars

READING: Guilloud, Through the Eyes of the Judged.

3-5, Lib 1612 / -- Group activities – Film screening

WEEK 3, Oct 8-12

Mon, Oct 8

10-12, Lecture Hall 1 / -- Visual studies lecture

READINGS:

Practices of Looking, Chapter 3: Spectatorship, Power and Knowledge

Angela Y. Davis, "Race and Criminalization: Black Americans and the Punishment Industry"
Richard Dyer, “The Matter of Whiteness”

1-3, Lib 2101, Lib 2103, Lib 2130 / -- Integration seminars – arts show workshops.

Tues, Oct 9

9-12, Darkroom & Lib 2130 / -- Photography module.

1-4, Lecture Hall 3 / -- Media studies module.

READING: Jessica Evans and Stuart Hall, eds. Visual Culture Reader, (Corwin Press, 1999) chapters 25-28.

 

1-4, Maple Lane / -- Gateways module.

Thurs, Oct 11

1:30-3:30, Cab 108 / -- Writing class.

4:00-6:00, Organic Farm / -- Potluck.

Fri, Oct 12

10-12, Lecture Hall 3 / -- US history lecture – Growth of Police Power in WWI and Prohibition, 1915-1930. 

READING: America’s Struggle, Ch 2.

1-3, Lib 1505, Lib 1509, Lib 4004 / -- Reading Seminars –

READING: Butterfield, All God’s Children

3-5, Lib 1612 / -- Group activities – guest lecturer/artist – modeling the artistic process?

WEEK 4, Oct 15-19

Mon, Oct 15

10-12, Lecture Hall 1 / -- Visual studies lecture.

READINGS:

Practices of Looking, Chapter 8: Scientific Looking, Looking at Science

Philomena Mariani, “Law-and-Order Science,” in Constructing Masculinity, 135-156.

Kendall Thomas, “‘Masculinity,’ ‘The Rule of Law,’ and Other Legal Fictions,” in Constructing Masculinity, 221-237.

1-3, Lib 2101, Lib 2103, Lib 2130 / -- Integration seminars.

Tues, Oct 16

9-12, Darkroom & Lib 2130 / -- Photography module.

1-4, Lecture Hall 3 / -- Media studies module.

READING: Butler, Judith “Performative Acts and Gender: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory,” in Performing Feminisms: Feminist Critical Theory and Theater ed. Sue-Ellen Case. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, University Press, 1990, 270-282.

1-4, Maple Lane / -- Gateways module.

Thurs, Oct 18

1:30 –3:30, Cab 108 / -- Writing class.

Fri, Oct 19

10-12, Lecture Hall 3 / -- US history lecture – Protest and repression in the Great Depression and WWII, 1932-1945.

 READING: America’s Struggle, Ch. 3-4.

1-3, Lib 1505, Lib 1509, Lib 4004 / -- Reading Seminars

READING: To be announced.

3-5, Lib 1612 / Group activities – art show workshops.

Film screening: bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation, Sut Jhally, 1997.

WEEK 5, Oct 22-26

Mon, Oct 22

10-12, Lecture Hall 1 / -- Visual studies lecture.
READING: Practices of Looking, Chapter 4: Reproduction and Visual Technologies.

1-3, Library Foyer / -- Mid-term arts show.

Tues, Oct 23

9-12, Darkroom & Lib 2130 / -- Photography module.

1-4, Lecture Hall 3 / -- Media studies module.

READINGS:

bell hooks, “Power to the Pussy: We Don’t Wannabe Dicks in Drag,” in Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representation (New York: Routledge Press, 1994) 9-23.

Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” in Illuminations, 217-251.

1-4, Maple Lane / -- Gateways module.

Thurs, Oct 25

1:30-3:30, Cab 108 / -- Writing class.

Fri, Oct 26

10-12, Lecture Hall 3 / -- US history lecture – Cold War and Red Scare, 1945-1960. 

READING: America’s Struggle, Ch 5-6.

1-3, Lib 1505, Lib 1509, Lib 4004 / -- Reading Seminars

READING: bell hooks, All About Love

3-5, Lib 1612 / Group activities --

Film screening: I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, Mervyn Leroy, 1932.

WEEK 6, Oct 29-Nov2

Mon, Oct 29

10-12, Lecture Hall 1 / -- Visual studies lecture.

READING: Practices of Looking, Chapter 5: The Mass Media and the Public Sphere

1-3, Lib 2101, Lib 2103, Lib 2130 / -- Integration seminars.

Tues, Oct 30

9-12, Darkroom & Lib 2130 / -- Photography module.

1-4, Lecture Hall 3 / -- Media studies module.

READING: Barbara Harlow, “Sites of Struggle: Immigration, Deportation, Prison, and Exile” in Criticism in the Borderlands: Studies in Chicano Literature, Culture, and Ideology, ed. Hectór Calderón and José David Saldívar (Durham : Duke University Press, 1991)

1-4, Maple Lane / -- Gateways module.

Thurs, Nov 1

1:30-3:30, Cab 108 / -- Writing class.

Fri, Nov 2

10-12, Lecture Hall 3 / -- US history lecture – Teen rebellion and civil rights, law enforcement and social dissent in the 1950s.

READING: America’s Struggle, Ch 7-9.

1-3, Lib 1505, Lib 1509, Lib 4004 / -- Reading Seminars

READING: Hirsch, Hurricane.

3-5, Lib 1612 / -- Group activities

Film screening: The Hurricane, Norman Jewison, 1999.

WEEK 7, Nov 5-9

Mon, Nov 5

10-12, Lecture Hall 1 / -- Visual studies lecture.

READING: Practices of Looking, Chapter 6: Consumer Culture and the Manufacturing of Desire

1-3, Lib 2101, Lib 2103, Lib 2130 / -- Integration seminars.

Tues, Nov 6

9-12, Darkroom & Lib 2130 / -- Photography module.

1-4, Lecture Hall 3 / -- Media studies module.

READINGS:

bell hooks, “Gangsta Culture—Sexism, Misogyny: Who Will Take the Rap?” and “Ice Cube Culture: A Shared Passion for Speaking Truth: bell hooks and Ice Cube in Dialogue,” in Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representation (New York: Routledge Press, 1994) 115-123, 125-143.

1-4, Maple Lane / -- Gateways module.

Thurs, Nov 8

1:30-3:30, Cab 108 / -- Writing class.

Fri, Nov 9

10-12, Lecture Hall 3 / -- US history lecture – Violence in America: war on poverty, war on us, 1960-1975.
 READING: America’s Struggle, Ch 10-12.

1-3, Lib 1505, Lib 1509, Lib 4004 / -- Reading Seminars

READING: Peltier, Prison Writings.

3-5, Lib 1612 / -- Group activities

Film screening: Incident at Oglala, Michael Apted, 1992.


WEEK 8, Nov12-16

Mon, Nov 12

10-12, Lecture Hall 1 / -- Visual studies lecture.

READING: Practices of Looking, Chapter 2: Viewers Make Meaning

1-3, Lib 2101, Lib 2103, Lib 2130 / -- Integration seminars.

Tues, Nov 13

9-12, Darkroom & Lib 2130 / -- Photography module.

1-4, Lecture Hall 3 / -- Media studies module.

 READING: Jimmie Durham, “The Search for Virginity,” and Jean Fisher, “Unsettled Accounts of Indians and Others,” in The Myth of Primitivism, 287-291, 292-313.

 1-4, Maple Lane / -- Gateways module.

Thurs, Nov 15

1:30-3:30, Cab 108 / -- Writing class.

Fri, Nov 16

10-12, Lecture Hall 3 / -- US history lecture – Violence in America II: war on drugs, war on us, 1975-1990. 
READING: America’s Struggle, Ch 13-14.

1-3, Lib 1505, Lib 1509, Lib 4004 / -- Reading Seminars
READING: Finnegan, Cold New World, Pt. 1.

3-5, Lib 1612 / -- Group activities
Film screening:

THANKSGIVING BREAK WEEK, Nov 19-23, NO CLASSES

WEEK 9, Nov 26-30

Mon, Nov 26

10-12, Lecture Hall 1 / -- Visual studies lecture.
READING: Practices of Looking, Chapter 7: Postmodernism and Popular Culture

1-3, Lib 2101, Lib 2103, Lib 2130 / -- Integration seminars.

Tues, Nov 27

9-12, Darkroom & Lib 2130 / -- Photography module.

1-4, Lecture Hall 3 / -- Media studies module.

READING: Richard Fung, “Burdens of Representation, Burdens of Responsibility,” in Constructing Masculinity, 135-156.

1-4, Maple Lane / -- Gateways module.

Thurs, Nov 29

1:30-3:30, Cab 108 / -- Writing class.

Fri, Nov 30

10-12, Lecture Hall 3 / -- US history lecture – Prison Industrial Complex: the militarization of law enforcement, 1990-present. 
READING: America’s Struggle, Ch 15-16.

1-3, Lib 1505, Lib 1509, Lib 4004 / -- Reading Seminars
READING: Finnegan, Cold New World, Pt. 2

3-5, Lib 1612 / -- Group activities
Film screening: Edward Said on Orientalism, Sut Jhally, 1998.

WEEK 10, Dec 3-7, Conclusions

Mon, Dec 3

10-12, Lecture Hall 1 / -- Visual studies lecture.

READING: Practices of Looking, Chapter 9: The Global Flow of Visual Culture

1-3, Lib 2101, Lib 2103, Lib 2130 / -- Integration seminars.

Tues, Dec 4

9-12, Darkroom & Lib 2130 / -- Photography module.

1-4, Lecture Hall 3 / -- Media studies module.

READING: Louis Althusser, “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses,” in Mapping Ideology, ed. Zizek, (Verso, 1994), 100-140.

1-4, Maple Lane / -- Gateways module.

Thurs, Dec 6

1:30-3:30, Cab 108 / -- Writing class.

Fri, Dec 7

10-12, Lecture Hall 3 / -- US history lecture – Where do we go from here?

1-3, Lib 1505, Lib 1509, Lib 4004 / -- Reading Seminars

READING: TBA

3-5, Lib 1612 / -- Group activities

Film Screening: Jailhouse Rock, Richard Thorpe, 1957.

WEEK 11, EVALUATIONS, DEC 10-14

Individual faculty-student conferences to be scheduled.