Course Syllabus
Tutorial 100-10
September 2000

!! Please schedule individual writing consultations with me for the week of Sep 4-8 !!

Tuesday, September 5

Discussion List Response: Commentary on Discussion Thread
Mini-Lecture/Discussion: The Importance of Thomas More
Peer Writing Exercise: Thesis Sentences

Reading Assignment for Thurs, Sep 7: The Utopia Reader, pp. 118-125, 137-140

Thursday, September 7

Mini-Lecture/Discussion: Theoretical Antecedents to the American Revolution
Discussion: Bacon and Harrington
Second Discussion List Assignment: Pair #2 will post questions relating to the reading assigned for Tuesday, September 12

Reading Assignment for Tues, Sep 12: Handouts (Voltaire and Rousseau)

Tuesday, September 12

Discussion List Response: Commentary on Discussion Thread
Mini-Lecture: The American Revolution
Discussion of Second Writing Assignment (Due Tuesday, September 19)

Reading Assignment for Thurs, Sep 14: The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution and The Bill of Rights.
Reading Available at: http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/freedom/index.html

Thursday, September 14

Discussion: Revolution and Utopia
Peer-Writing Exercise: Designing an Essay
Third Discussion List Assignment: Pair #3 will post questions relating to the reading assigned for Tuesday, September 19

Reading Assignment for Tues, Sept 19: The Utopia Reader, 182-202

Tuesday, September 19

Discussion List Response: Commentary on Discussion Thread
Discussion: Utopia (Continued) in the United States
Mini-Lecture: Russia in the Nineteenth Century

Reading Assignment for Thurs, Sept 21: The Utopia Reader, 152-163, and Parts I-III of The Communist Manifesto

Thursday, September 21

Mini-Lecture: Revolution or Utopia? Nineteenth-Century Aspirations
Discussion: Karl Marx
Peer Writing Conferences

Reading Assignment for Tues, Sep 26: Handouts (Chernyshevsky and Bakunin, Marxism, Freedom and the State and Founding of the First International)

!!Please schedule individual writing consultations with me for the week of Sep 25-29!!

Tuesday, September 26

Discussion: Was the Revolution Inevitable?
Mini-Lecture: Utopian Gestures in Late Nineteenth-Century Russia

Reading Assignment for Thurs, Sept 28: Utopias, 1-11, 17-20, 24-30, 244-249 Handout (Lenin)

Thursday, September 28

Work, Utopia and the Revolution: Discussion
Mini-Lecture: The People and the Intelligentsia
Fourth Discussion List Assignment: Pair #4 will post questions relating to the reading assigned for Tuesday, September 26


Reading Assignment for Tues, October 3: Utopias, 49-52, 55-59, 65-70, 79-83, 98-102

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