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Supervised Reading and Research I

Brian Teaman, Office: room 711 (2nd floor next to Wilmina Cafe). Classes meet on Monday and Wednesday, third period. For more information go to http://brianteaman.com/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Classes.General

Simplicity and Peace Course Description

There are many potential ways to think about peace. One path to peace could be thought of as simplicity. This class will introduce the idea of peace by looking through the competing concepts of simplicty and complexity. On the one hand, simplicty can be thought of as the opposite of consumption. Consumption is related to selfishness, abuse of natural resources and war with our environment. Some people say that simplicity comes through prosperity but that fails to look at the distruction and loss of resources which comes through prosperity. Another view of simplicity is lack of technology. We will look at some peacemakers who also lived simple lives. Technology can be thought of as the opposite of technology.

Grading Scale:

• Paper outline/intro 5% (
• Paper first draft 10% (
• Final Draft 25% (Final Draft)
• Class Work 40%
• Final Quiz and Presentation 10%

Class Plan

Monday/Wednesday

• Class 1 (4/18) Course Overview, MLA
• Class 2 (4/20) Lecture: Simplicity and Peace/Student Questions/Reaction Paper
• Class 3 (4/25) Discussion/In-class short/answer
• Class 4 (4/27) Lecture: Technology and War/Student Questions/Reaction Paper
• GOLDEN WEEK
• Class 5 (5/2)
• Class 6 (5/9)
• Class 7 (5/11)
• Class 8 (5/16)
• Class 9 (5/18)
• Class 10 (5/23)
• Class 11 (5/25)
• Class 12 (5/30) (Outline and Introduction due)
• Class 13 (6/1)
• Class 14 (6/6)
• Class 15 (6/8)
• Class 16 (6/13)
• Class 17 (6/15)
• Class 18 (6/20)
• Class 19 (6/22)
• Class 20 (6/27)
• Class 21 (6/29) (First Drafts Due)
• Class 22 (7/4)
• Class 23 (7/6)
• Class 24 (7/11) Presentations
• Class 25 (7/13) Presentations
• Class 26 (7/20) Presentations (Final Drafts Due)