Week 15
Week 14
Week 13
Week 12
Week 11
Week 10
Garrett Hardin’s “Lifeboat Ethics”
Peter Singer’s “Famine, Affluence, and Morality”
Harry Frankfurt “On Bullshit” (alternative/optional):
(a) what is BS? Frankfurt’s definition and your definition
(b) how is BS different from lying?
(c) why is BS a historically recent problem?
(d) example of BS from your observation or experience
Week 9
Week 8
Nation on UCB free speech (Palumbo-Liu)
NLG Free Speech on Campus (Yoder)
Jill Lepore on campuse free speech - historical cases
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/09/flip-flopping-on-free-speech
Week 7
Week 6
Week 5
Week 4
REVIEW OF MLA FORMAT:
Annotated works cited: to briefly describe your source, indicating your research process, how this source informs your critical thinking on your chosen subject and topic--
http://libguides.enc.edu/writing_basics/annotatedbib/mla
Examples of annotated works cited.
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/03/
More examples.
On works cited:
See BibMe.org, EasyBib.com, or CitationMachine.net for automated format; also CiteMe on Facebook
Review MLA format for in-text citations and works cited
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/02/
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/05/
from OWL Purdue Online Writing Lab
Week 3
Study questions for in-class writing:
The True Meaning of Pictures: Directed by Jennifer Baichwal, based on still photography by Shelby Adams
What are the different points of view (POVs) represented in the film? Why is it useful to think about Shelby Adams’ photographs from more than one POV? How does recognition of various POVs help us to understand these photos in the context of art and the world?
Logos/reason, pathos/emotion. In the context of Shelby Adams’ photos, discuss logos/reason and pathos/emotion. When is the use of reason not enough? How can emotion lead to sensationalism or distortion? Or, to raise awareness of an untold or forgotten story? If “a picture is worth a thousand words,” what are the unstated implications of his work?
What is the role of reason in True Meaning? – fact, observation, explanation, analysis
Of emotion? – empathy, human connection, sensationalism, exploitation, distortion
Why do these photos matter / do not matter? Who cares? Why?
Visual rhetoric. According to Barnet & Bedau, how can visual images be presented as argument? What can pictures do that words cannot? See examples p.150 (flag-draped coffins), 171-172 (Boston fire). And what about “eye witness” news (cell phone video of Oscar Grant shooting on BART, of Eric Garner “I can’t breathe”)? Political cartoons (Charlie Hebdo, Doonesbury, op-ed page of dailies)?
Week 2
Globe and Mail article on Shelby Adams
Week 1