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SRRIFALL 2005

Supervised Reading and Research I

Meets Monday 2 10:00-10:50 in room 104 Meets Friday 2 10:00-10:50 in room 207 Brian Teaman, Office: room 711 (2nd floor next to Wilmina Cafe). Office Hours: 9:00-9:50 Monday and 11:30-12:20 on Wednesday

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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 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 peace comes through prosperity but that fails to look at the distruction and loss of resources which comes through prosperity. There are many peaceful societies that are not prosperous and many prosperous societies that are not peaceful. So, we will look at different societies and different kinds of conflicts in simple and complex socieites. We will look at some peacemakers who also lived simple lives. Another view of simplicity is lack of technology. Technology can be thought of as the opposite of simplicity. So, we will look at peaceful and non-peaceful uses of technology. One very powerful force in the modern world that drives technology, consumption, wars, and environmental destruction is the use of energy. Therefore we will look at the importance of oil and other energy sources for making peace and war. Besides technology and energy there is the direct relationship between technology and the ability to make war.

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Class Plan

Monday (Room 104)/Wednesday (Room 207) at 10:00 a.m.

• Week 1 (9/26) Course Overview Classes.SRRIHomework1
  • (9/30) Amish Movie (click for homework) Amish Links

• Week 2 (10/03) Finish Amish Movie (Amish Summary and Reaction, homework due 10/07 Amish History and Amish Discussion
  • (10/07) Choose a period of time in Japanese history. Work together, but each person write's their own paper. Details here: Japan History

• Week 3 (10/14)
  • (10/17) Simplicity/Technology, Peace/Aggression Continuum worksheet

• Week 4 (10/21) Japanese History Discussion, Hand out Yanomo readings (1. Skim all (pictures and titles) 2. Read carefully pages 45 and the top half of page 46 with no dictionaries. Write a very short summary of a few sentences (due on 24)
  • (10/24) Collect summaries for pages 45-46 of the Yanomamo reading. Homework: 1. Do a summary of the first three paragraphs of Trails and Travel, no dictionaries. 2. Write a 4th idea for research paper by yourself.

• Week 5 (10/28) Writing Thesis Statements:
  • 5 (10/31) (Title and thesis statement due, at least 1 source)

• Week 6 (11/07)
  • (11/11) Lecture: Simplicity and Peace/Student Questions/Reaction Paper Classes.SRRIHomework2

• Week 7 (11/14) Bring sources or copies of title pages for a APA workshop.
  • (11/18) (Outline and Introduction due, at least 5 sources)

• Week 8 (11/21) Voluntary Simplicity in Wikipedia
  • (11/25)

• Week 9 (11/28)
  • (12/02)

• Week 10 (12/05)
  • (12/09) (First Drafts Due)

• Week 11 (12/12) Simple Living Quiz. Brainstorming for Simple Living Projects due today.
  • (12/16)

• Week 12 (12/19) The Sloth Club is a great place to find information you could use in your presentations.
  • (1/13) (Final Drafts Due at Beginning of Class) Work on presentations in class

• Week 13 (1/16) Work on presentations in class
  • (1/20) Presentations

• Week 14 (1/23) Presentations (Final Quiz)

Final Grade

Participation (20%)

• Attendance
• In-class work

Paper (40%)

• Outline, Introduction, Preliminary Resources (5%)
• First Draft (10%)
• Final Draft (25%) (5% Penalty if late)

Project Presentation (20%)

• Requirements: Must turn in a summary of your part, must be a different subject from your paper.

Quizzes and tests (20%)

Notes for teacher for future work:

The Last Samurai

Think about having quizzes in the computer classroom once a month.

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Topics

Snippets, not currently being used: Technology and War/Student QuestionsOptional Reaction Paper due May 18