Winter Quarter Syllabus

[Winter Seminars]

Current Week

Week I:Jan. 3-7

Weekly Schedule	AM	PM
Monday	Overview of the Quarter Introduction to Foreign Policy Issue (Dan).	Meeting of nation-state History groups (information collected over break)
Tuesday	*Seminar on Parts I,II, III Fromkin, Peace to End All Peace* ( 200 pages)**	Early start at 12 noon Student presentation of Nation-state History groups
Friday	Organization of legislative hearing groups and issue areas. Fifteen groups of four students. (Chuck)

Week II: Jan. 10-14

Weekly Schedule	AM	PM
Monday	Lecture by Steve Niva on historical forces in Middle East post WWI.	Seminar: Parts IV-X. (248 pages) Fromkin
Tuesday	Seminar on Fromkin Parts IV-X (cont.)	Drawing exercise characterizing US foreign policy (Dan)
Wed. and Thurs.	Web-X workshops; 10:00 - 11:15; Lib 4300, GCC classroom. Please attend one of these sessions.
Friday 10:00 – 1:00	Ethnographic public service discussions and organization of reflective essay. (Stephanie)

Week III: Jan. 17-21

Weekly Schedule	AM	PM
Monday	(Martin Luther King, Jr. School Holiday)	(Martin Luther King, Jr. School Holiday)
Tuesday	Seminar on Fromkin Parts XI & XII.	Meeting of groups for legislative hearing project.
Friday 10:00 – 1:00	Lecture by Therese Saliba. US Imperialism and Counter-Revolutions in Iran, Afghanistan and Palestine.

Week IV: Jan. 24-28

Weekly Schedule	AM	PM
Monday	Lecture by Dan Leahy. The New World Order & Neo-Liberal Policies.	*Seminar: The Grand Chessboard* by Z. Brzezinski (200 pages)**
Tuesday	Seminar: Project for a New American Century	Lecture by John Perkins, "The Oil Civilization"
Friday 10:00 – 1:00	Meetings of groups for legislative hearing preparation.

Week V: Jan. 31-Feb. 4

Weekly Schedule	AM	PM
Monday	Lecture by Larry Mosqueda: The Logic of Imperialism and US Militarism.	*Seminar: Sorrows of Empire* by Johnson, Chs. 1-7, pp. 1-215.**
Tuesday	*Seminar: Sorrows of Empire,* Chs. 8-10, pp. 217-312.**	Lecture by Dan Leahy ; The “Anti-Globalization” Movement: From the WTO to World Social Forum.
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday	Visits to the Wash. State Legislature to observe hearings.

Week VI: Feb. 7-11

Weekly Schedule	AM	PM
Monday	Steve Niva, "Islamicism (Qutb) to Militant Islam (al Quaeda)"	*Seminar:An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror. (260 pages)*
Tuesday	Seminar: Ethnographic essays	Shaheed Nuriddin: "Basic Tenets of Islam" (article by Mr. Nuriddin)
Friday 10:00 – 1:00	Work in LHP groups, no scheduled class time.

Week VII: Feb. 14-18
Writing due on Monday, see Winter Writing (link)

Weekly Schedule	AM	PM
Monday	Film: "Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire" (2004, Jeremy Earp & Sut Jhally)	*Seminar: Social Justice in Islam* by Qutb (all but chpts. 2 and 7)**
Tuesday	Seminar: Social Justice In Islam	"The World in Crisis" - A simulation game game results (.pdf file)
Friday 10:00 – 1:00	Work in LHP groups, no scheduled class time. (An abstract of your testimony is is due on Monday, Feb. 14 -- see the assignments page)

Week VIII: Feb. 21-25

Weekly Schedule	AM	PM
Monday	President’s Day Campus Holiday	President’s Day Campus Holiday
Tuesday	Seminar: Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror	Lecture by Graham Hamby: "The Coalition Provisional Authority & the Iraq Model"
Friday 10:00 – 1:00	Seminar: 10-11:30 Imperial Hubris: (continued) Meet in A2109, 3107 and 3109 Legislative Preparation: Noon -1:00

Week IX: Feb. 28-March 4
Legislative Hearing Written Testimony due on Tuesday Monday at 9am, absolutely (The written work must come in on Monday in order for the Tuesday panels to read the written testimony by Tuesday morning.)

Weekly Schedule	AM	PM
Monday	Chuck on "Absolutism v. Relativism" Discussion of : Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire (edited) Chuck's lecture notes and notes on Norton, Leo Strauss...	Final preparation time for spoken testimony and hearings. Faculy will meet with students who would like to seminar on Norton's book - it's optional.
Tuesday	10am - 12noon Legislative Hearings (2): Charter Schools; WASL (Meet in TV studio: 1st floor of Library, SW wing, under the reference section, next to the mailroom)	12:30pm - 3pm Legislative Hearings (2): Coportate Citizenship; Stem-Cell Research
Friday	10am - 1pm Presentations of Legislative Hearings (2): Corporate Personhood; Social Security Reform

Week X: March 7-11

Weekly Schedule	AM	PM
Monday	9:30am - 12noon Legislative Hearings (2): Sex-Ed; Public Schools - Church & State	12:30pm - 2:30 Seminars on Ethnographies
Tuesday	10am - 11am Seminar Evaluation Session	12:30pm - 3:30pm Legislative Hearings (3): Gay Marriage; Living Wage; Patriot Act
Friday 10:00 – 1:00	Potluck-Brunch at Chuck's: 2304 Walnut Rd. NW. [Bus #41 stops on Division at Walnut (.9 miles N of Harrison). 2304 is on the N side of Walnut, seventh house from corner of Division - behind gorgeous pink, large quince hedge]

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