Office: 3615 James
Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays, 8:30-9, 12-12:30
and 1:30-2:30
Office phone: 951-4576
Email: rsatow@brooklyn.cuny.edu
GRADING AND COURSE REQUIREMENTS:
There will be two tests and a final in the class.
You will start the course with an A+ (or 110 points)
Each test will count for 25 points. The final will count for 50 points.
If you are absent from an exam, please call me and leave a message OR email me before the exam takes place. If I do not hear from you before the exam begins and you do not bring a doctor’s note after the exam, you will not get a make-up, rather you will lose all the points from the exam.
I will take attendance at the beginning of every class. Each time you are late or absent from class (unless you have a doctor’s note), I will subtract 2 points from your final grade. If you are never late, absent, or unprepared for class you will have 10 points to add to your test scores for your final grade.
Students are required to buy People, Power and Politics, 9th edition.
Students are required to read the assigned article, complete the study questions at the end of the article and bring both to class the day they are due. I recommend that you read and underline the important points in the article (in pencil) before you attempt to answer the study questions.
On the days you write an essay about an article from The New York Times, you are required to bring the newspaper article you have chosen as well as your paper to class with you. Your paper must be typed and double-spaced. If you come to class unprepared, you will lose 2 points.
Plagiarism (writing someone else’s words as if they are your own), sharing your exam or paper with another student, or copying another student’s paper or exam will result in an F in the course.
ASSIGNMENTS: (Although only the title of the article is mentioned, I expect you to read the introduction to every article as well.)
Wednesday, January 29: Read the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States.
Monday, February 3: Film on the Constitution.
Wednesday, February 5: Read The Federalist Papers 10 and 51.
Monday, February 10: Bring one page paper that summarizes a New York Times article related to the Constitution. Bring the New York Times article. Be prepared to talk about it in class.
Wednesday, February 12: College is closed.
Monday, February 17: College is closed
Wednesday, February 19: Read Alexis de Tocqueville selections from Democracy in America.
Monday, February 24: Read Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Address at Seneca Falls and Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions.
Wednesday, February 26: Bring one page paper that summarizes a NYT article that relates to either the de Tocqueville readings OR the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions. Bring the New York Times article. Be prepared to talk about it in class.
Monday, March 3: FIRST EXAMINATION
Wednesday, March 5: Read People v. Hall and the Dred Scott v. Sanford decisions.
Monday, March 10: Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
Wednesday, March 12: Read W.E.B. DuBois, "Back Towards Slavery" from Black Reconstruction in America. Ida B. Wells, The Red Record.
Monday, March 17: Gunnar Myrdal, "American Ideals and the American Conscience" from The American Dilemma.
Wednesday, March 19: Bring one page paper that summarizes a NYT article that relates to any of the readings since the first examination. Bring the New York Times article. Be prepared to talk about it in class.
Monday, March 24:Emma Goldman, “Marriage and Love” and “Women’s Suffrage.”
Wednesday, March 26: Margaret Sanger, My Fight for Birth Control.
Monday, March 31: Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique and Phyllis Schlafly, The Power of the Positive Woman.
Wednesday, April 2:Cherrie Moraga, “La Guera.”
Monday, April 7: Radicalesbians, “The Woman Identified Woman” and James Baldwin, “Here Be Dragons.”
Wednesday, April 9: Bring one page paper that summarizes a NYT article that relates to one of the articles assigned after March 17. Bring the New York Times article. Be prepared to talk about it in class.
Monday, April 14: SECOND EXAM.
Wednesday, April 16: College is Closed.
Monday, April 21: College is Closed.
Wednesday, April 23: College is Closed.
Monday, April 28: Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts.
Wednesday, April 30: C.W. Mills, “Work” from White Collar. (Pgs252-66)
Monday, May 5: Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto.”
Wednesday, May 7: Max Weber, “Class, Status and Party.”
Monday, May 12: William Graham Sumner, What the Social Classes Owe to Each Other? AND Franklin D. Roosevelt, "Redefining the Contract."
Wednesday, May 14: Milton Friedman, "The Role of Government in a Free Society" from Capitalism and Freedom.
Read The New York Times and find an article that is related to any one of the readings since the last paper was due. Write a one page, typed, double-spaced paper composed of two paragraphs. On the top of the page, on the left side, put your name, the title of the Times article, date, page and the name of the author.
In your first paragraph write a summary of the Times article that answers the following questions:
1) What is the main point of the article?
2) What evidence is used to support the main point?
Then write a second paragraph that explains how the NY TIMES article is related to the particular class reading. Be as specific as possible--make reference to specific points in the TIMES article and the class reading. Use quotes from the class reading to support the connection between the two articles. The TIMES article does not necessarily have to AGREE with the class reading. It is perfectly acceptable if the TIMES article contradicts the class reading--as long as you make it clear.
The papers will be evaluated from 1-5. 5 is the highest.
1-You chose an article from The New York Times that is not related to the class reading in any logical way. You have also done a poor job summarizing the article and a poor job summarizing the class reading.
2-You have done an adequate job summarizing the article from The New York Times, but you chose an article that is not related to the class reading in any logical way.
3- You have done an adequate job summarizing the article from The New York Times and you chose an article that is related to the class reading, but you have not clearly demonstrated the connection between the two.
4- You have done a good job summarizing the article from The New York Times; you chose an article that is related to the class reading; and you have demonstrated the connection between the two. However, you have not made the connection by making specific reference to the text of the reading.
5- You have done a good job summarizing the article from The New York Times; you chose an article that is related to the class reading; you have demonstrated the connection between the two; and you have made the connection by making specific reference to the text of the reading.