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2003-2004 Fall/Winter Quarters http://academic.evergreen.edu/curricular/dissent/home.htm FACULTY:
SCHEDULE:
REQUIRED READING: Peter Irons, A People's History of the Supreme Court (Penguin USA), ISBN: 0140292012 Saul Cornell, The
Other Founders: Anti-Federalism & the Dissenting Tradition in America,
1788-1828
Joyce Moser and Ann Watters, Creating America: Reading and Writing Arguments (Prentice Hall) ISBN: 0130918423 *Theda Perdue and Michael
Green, The Cherokee Removal: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford/St.
*Kenneth S. Greenberg, The Confessions of Nat Turner and Related Documents (Bedford/St. Martin's) *Paul Finkelman, Dred Scott v. Sandford: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford/St. Martin's) William H. Rehnquist, All The Laws But One: Civil Liberties in Wartime (Vintage Books) ISBN: 0679767320 Robert M. Goldman,
Reconstruction
and Black Suffrage: Losing the Vote in Reese and Cruikshank
David Ray Papke, The
Pullman Case: The Clash of Labor and Capital in Industrial America
(University Press
*Brook Thomas, Plessy v. Ferguson: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford/St. Martin's) *Nancy Woloch, Muller v. Oregon: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford/St. Martin's) *You will want to
purchase these five books from the Evergreen Bookstore. No ISBN is given
here because these books will be bundled under a special ISBN and given
a significant discount due to the quantity of books we are ordering from
the same publisher (Bedford/St. Martin's).
PROGRAM ACTIVITIES: Reading Critical and conscientious reading is the foundation of this program. Our assigned texts together constitute a rich fund of historical knowledge and raise significant social, political and economic questions about the American past. Some books will be used across the quarter and the program, while others will serve as weekly seminar readings. A response paper to each seminar reading will be due on Monday mornings. All readings are required. Writing Writing assignments include weekly reading response papers, plus a ten-page argumentative essay due at the end of the term. The weekly writing practicum will involve formal instruction in writing, informal in-class writings and discussion, and weekly exchange and peer discussion of reading response papers. Writing responsibilities are relatively light to balance the quarter’s heavy reading load. Face-to-Face Seminar Each week seminar groups will meet together for discussion and analysis of the readings and other program content and themes. Seminars will often utilize small group divisions to ensure students of all abilities and temperaments ample opportunity to voice their new learning and interests. Adequate and enthusiastic seminar preparation and participation will be indispensable to student success in this program. Film Analysis A film series will combine Hollywood feature films and historical documentaries. The feature films will include a number of Hollywood period pieces produced during the 1950s. These will be viewed and discussed in terms of their unselfconscious, hegemonic Cold War representations of the American colonial project in North America and worldwide. The documentaries will detail and supplement historical information and analytic themes presented elsewhere in the program curriculum. Integrative Seminar Online The final activity
of each week will be an integrative seminar, which students will carry
out asynchronously on the program's Web Crossing site. This will be a threaded
discussion consisting of "integrative comments" and responses. The main
idea of this online seminar is to bring closure to the week by synthesizing
what you have learned from the program materials and activities. On Tuesday
of the first week of classes, you will receive a hands-on orientation to
Web Crossing.
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