ARCHIVE - 12 Credit Option

EDUCATION VALUES AND SOCIETY

12 CREDIT OPTION

Rationale

The onset of teenage years is closely associated in America with special concerns about violence. This small group will apply the same program categories: nature/nurture, family/school/tradition, religion and economics to the question: Why do teenagers become particularly prone to violence? Once again Japan will serve as a comparison.

Activities

To earn the extra 4 credits above the 8 unit option, students will read four short books: Hannah about violence. This small group will get a chance to apply the same program categories: nature/nurture, family/school/tradition, religion and economics to the question Why do teenagers become Arendt, On Violence, Perrin, Noel, Giving up the Gun: Japan's Reversion to the Sword,1543-1879, Canada, Geoffrey , Fist, Stick, Knife, Gun: A Personal History of Violence in America, Glassner, Barry , Culture of Fear: The Assault of Optimism in America. We will seminar and Helena will lecture quite extensively since this is her primary research area.

Products

We will form this small group into an internet conversation group and students will share written reflections on the readings over the internet, to create group-wide dialogue. In addition, each person will get the opportunity to write an extensive, multiple-draft, research paper on the topic of your choice. Early in the quarter you will select the topics and design the research process rather as though this was an individual contract.

Schedule

Date

First come to class Then do Homework Then e-mail your colleagues and HMK

Week 2 Helena lecture: wrestling/culture Read Culture of Fear E-mail Seminar reflection to HMK the day before class

Week 3 Seminar: Culture of Fear Plan Individual Research E-mail draft "contract" to HMK

Week 4
October 21 HMK--How violence "research is done
Finalizing Projects
Read Arendt: on Violence E-mail Seminar reflections to each other and respond
by October 28

October 28 cancelled
November 2 meet from 4 - 4.45 HMK lecture Arendt's Work/labor distinction -- work v. violence Research time E-mail research concerns to each other and respond
by November 4

Week 6
November 4
Note 6 - 9pm War -- HMK lecture or a response to the realities of our lives
and research follow Read Giving up the Gun and Resarch time E-mail Seminar reflections to each other and respond.
by November 11

Week 7
November 11 Notsu sensei: violence in Japan
Plan larger class presentation
Read Fist, Stick, E-mail Seminar reflections and first cut on research findings and respond

Week 8
November 18 Violence today: being peace Research time -- lots of it. Over the next two weeks the group composes the final exam

Week 10
December 9 Write answers to the final in class and closure Finish the project Turn in by e-mail on Thursday of Week 10
December 12

Date	First come to class	Then do Homework	Then e-mail your colleagues and HMK
Week 2	Helena lecture: wrestling/culture	Read Culture of Fear	E-mail Seminar reflection to HMK the day before class
Week 3	Seminar: Culture of Fear	Plan Individual Research	E-mail draft "contract" to HMK
Week 4 October 21	HMK--How violence "research is done Finalizing Projects	Read Arendt: on Violence	E-mail Seminar reflections to each other and respond by October 28
October 28 cancelled November 2 meet from 4 - 4.45	HMK lecture Arendt's Work/labor distinction -- work v. violence	Research time	E-mail research concerns to each other and respond by November 4
Week 6 November 4 Note 6 - 9pm	War -- HMK lecture or a response to the realities of our lives and research follow	Read Giving up the Gun and Resarch time	E-mail Seminar reflections to each other and respond. by November 11
Week 7 November 11	Notsu sensei: violence in Japan Plan larger class presentation	Read Fist, Stick,	E-mail Seminar reflections and first cut on research findings and respond
Week 8 November 18	Violence today: being peace	Research time -- lots of it.	Over the next two weeks the group composes the final exam
Week 10 December 9	Write answers to the final in class and closure	Finish the project	Turn in by e-mail on Thursday of Week 10 December 12