Syllabus
| Week 1: Education | |
| Sunday, June 29 | Orientation to the campus and the Program |
| Monday, June 30 | Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book & How to Mark a Book |
| Tuesday, July 1 | Plato, The Republic: The Allegory of the Cave |
| Wednesday, July 2 |
Matilda Joslyn Gage, Woman Church and State Mahatma Gandhi, Hind Swaraj Martha Nussbaum, Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities |
| Thursday, July 3 | Home for the Fourth of July weekend |
| Week 2: Justice | |
| Sunday, July 6 |
Plato, The Apology in The Trial and Death of Socrates |
| Monday, July 7 | Euripedes, Medea |
| Tuesday, July 8 | Bartolome De Las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies |
| Wednesday, July 9 | Jean-Jacques Rousseau, On the Social Contract |
| Thursday, July 10 | Anna Julia Cooper, Woman Versus the Indian |
| Week 3: Citizenship | |
| Sunday, July 13 | Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War |
| Monday, July 14 | Aristotle, On Politics Book I & II |
| Tuesday, July 15 |
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan John Locke, Second Treatise of Government Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence |
| Wednesday, July 16 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments & The Matriarchate, or Mother-Age |
| Thursday, July 17 | Theodore Roosevelt, Citizenship in a Republic |
| Week 4: Inclusion | |
| Sunday, July 20 |
Karl Marx, Marx to Sigfrid Meyer and August Vogt in New York Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England |
| Monday, July 21 | Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave & The Meaning of the Fourth of July to a Negro |
| Tuesday, July 22 | Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail |
| Wednesday, July 23 | James Baldwin, A Talk to Teachers |
| Thursday, July 24 |
Saum Song Bo, A Chinese View of the Statue of Liberty Salman Rushdie, Declaration of Independence for Those Without Frontiers |
| Week 5: Migration | |
| Sunday, July 27 | Plato, The Crito in the Trial and Death of Socrates |
| Monday, July 28 | Cesar Chavez, The Mexican-American and the Church & Address to the Commonwealth Club of California |
| Tuesday, July 29 | Michel Foucault, Fearless Speech |
| Wednesday, July 30 | Hannah Arendt, The Decline of the Nation State & the End of the Rights of Man |
Daily Writing Practice
During writing time each night, Students will go through a writing workshop tutorial led by the tutor mentors to develop the skills necessary to write a college-level essay. Tutoring sessions will be followed by a writing practice to help build that skill.
Weekly Essays
Each week students will write a 2-page essay that reflects on the weekly reading’s themes and connections. These will be constructed under the guidance of the tutor mentors.
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.
