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The Good Citizen: the "social contract" reconsidered

Spring 2003

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.

     
qResources

Please check this page for on-line sites that might support your work in this curriculum. If you come across resources that you believe should be listed here, please let the faculty know(by email).


Learning Resource Center web site

Useful for writing:

The Elements of Style

11 Rules of Writing

Garbl's Writing Resources Online

Purdue University's Writing Lab

Writing a Research Paper (info on outlining)

MLA Guide for Writing Research Papers

Useful for math and quantitative reasoning:

Understanding Mathematics website

US Historical Census Data Browser (U. of Virginia)

"Historical Background"


General references in philosophy:

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy


Week I

Hobbes:

The Leviathan: on line text

Locke:

The Second Treatise of Civil Government: on line text

Republican Contract with America

 

Week III

U.S. Declaration of Independence

Constitution of the United States

Q & A for U.S. Census Data on Race

The Civil Rights Movement 1955-65: introduction

 

Week IV

M.L. King, Jr., "Letter from Birmingham Jail"

Plato, "Apology"

Thoreau, "Civil Disobedience" (aka "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" or "Resistence to Civil Government")

 

Week V

Text and History of the Equal Rights Amendment

Opposition: National Right to Life Organization

Opposition: Missouri Right to Life Organization

 

Week VII

Diana Meyers, "Feminist Perspectives on the Self"

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last updated: 6/1/2003