Syllabus
| Week 1: Getting Started | |
| Sunday, June 30th | Orientation to the campus and the Program |
| Monday, June 31st | Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book, and “How to Mark a Book.” |
| Tuesday, July 1st | Plato, The Republic: The Allegory of the Cave Ralph Waldo Emerson, The American Scholar |
| Wednesday, July 2nd |
Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Women, Ch. 4 & 12 Matilda Joslyn Gage, Woman Church and State |
| Thursday, July 3rd | Mahatma Gandhi, Hind Swaraj, ch 18 Martha Nussbaum, Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities, Ch. 2 |
| Week 2: The Classical Roots of Democratic Thought | |
| Monday, July 8th | Euthyphro in The Trial and Death of Socrates Euripedes, Medea |
| Tuesday, July 9th | Plato, Apology in The Trial and Death of Socrates |
| Wednesday, July 10th | Crito and Phaedo in The Trial and Death of Socrates |
| Thursday, July 11th | Thucydides, Pericles’ Funeral Oration and Account of the Plague |
| Friday, July 12th | Aristotle, Politics: Book 1 and Book II |
| Week 3: The Enlightenment | |
| Monday, July 15th | Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, Ch XIII, XIV, XV |
| Tuesday, July 16th | John Locke, Second Treatise on Government, Book II, Ch I-V, VIII, XVIII Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence |
| Wednesday, July 17th | Jean-Jaques Rousseau, On the Social Contract, Book 1 |
| Thursday, July 18th | Karl Marx, Letter to Sigfrid Meyer and August Vogt In New York; The Conditions of the Working-Class in England |
| Friday, July 19th | Theodore Roosevelt, Man in the Arena Speech; The Winning of the West (Excerpts) |
| Week 4: The American Experience | |
| Monday, July 22nd | Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of an American Slave, ch. VI-VII, and The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro Saum Song Bo, A Chinese View of the Statue of Liberty |
| Tuesday, July 23rd | Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments and The Matriarchate, or Mother-Age Anna Julia Cooper, Woman Versus the Indian |
| Wednesday, July 24th | David Ramsay, A Dissertation on the Manner of Acquiring the Character and Privileges of a Citizen in the United States |
| Thursday, July 25th | Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail James Baldwin, A Talk to Teachers |
| Friday, July 26th | Cesar Chavez, The Mexican-American and the Church, 1968 and Address to the Commonwealth Club of California, 1980 |
| Week 5: Moving Forward | |
| Monday, July 29th | Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (selections) |
| Tuesday, July 30th | Michel Foucault, Fearless Speech (excerpts) |
| Wednesday, July 31st | Jaques Derrida, Derelictions of the Right to Justice Rushdie, Declarations of Independence for Those without Frontiers |
| Thursday, August 1st | Irigaray, Towards a Citizenship of the European Union |
| Friday, August 2nd | Closing Discussion Poster Session and Final Celebration! |
Reflections
Each day, the student will hand in a 1-page reflection, written during the mentored writing sessions detailing how the reading helped to complicate their notion of democracy
Final Paper
Students will construct a 3-4 page argumentative paper that supports a thesis regarding a major topic that we have treated in class. These will be constructed under the guidance of the tutor mentors
Final Poster
Students will be provided a template on which to construct a poster that outlines their experience in the course. These will be on display in the hours preceding our final celebration
Experiential Learning or Field Trips
We will have field trips on Friday after class. These will generally be completed by 5PM, upon which time students will be released for the weekend.
