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Unit 1: The Ethics of Creative
Memory |
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Weeks 1, 2, 3
February 8-13
February 14-20
February 21-27
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The Brown Wasp (Eiseley)
Building Memories (Schacter)
Memory and Imagination (Hampl)
Then and Now: Creating a Self through the Past (Engel)
2/18 LATTC Library
orientation: Research
In-class essay |
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Unit 2: Impersonal Memory, Revisionism, and
History |
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Weeks 4, 5
February 28-March 6
March 7-13 |
Social Memories (Zerubavel)
No-Name Woman (Kingston) Columbus:
Gone But Not Forgotten (hooks)
3/2 Paper 1 |
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Unit 3: Selfishness and the Ethics of
Cloning |
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Weeks 6, 7
March 14-20
March 21-27
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The Self and Society
(Baumeister) Whose
Self Is It, Anyway? (Kitcher)
To Clone or Not to Clone (Elshtain)
3/16 Department Midterm:
In-class Essay
3/23 Paper 2 |
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Week 8
March 28-April 3 |
Spring recess & Cesar Chavez day Begin the novel |
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Unit 4: My Brother's Keeper |
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Weeks 9, 10, 11
April 4-10 April 11-17 April 18-24 |
Sonny's Blues (Baldwin)
The Narrative Imagination (Nussbaum)
Heart to Heart: Sex Differences in Emotion (Blum)
Rejected and Neglected, Ashamed and Depressed (Garbarino)
What's So Bad About Hate? (Sullivan)
4/6 Paper 3 |
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Unit 5: Cyberselfish?
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Weeks 12, 13, 14
April 25-May 1 May 2-8 May 9-15 |
Isolated by the
Internet (Stoll)
Out of Time (Ullman)
Who Am We? (Turkle)
Redefining the Measure of Mankind (Caudill)
Grandfather Clause (Moravec)
Cyber Soul-space (Wertheim) |
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The Novel: to be announced |
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Weeks 15, 16
May 16-22 May 23-29 |
4/29 Paper #4 |
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Week 17
May 30-June 7 |
Final Exams Week.
End of semester June 7
6/3 English 103 exam (10 am-12 noon) |
