{"id":20851,"date":"2019-01-16T15:51:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T20:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=20851"},"modified":"2019-01-16T15:51:35","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T20:51:35","slug":"syllabus-of-introduction-to-civic-studies-spring-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=20851","title":{"rendered":"syllabus of Introduction to Civic Studies, spring 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am about to start teaching <a href=\"https:\/\/as.tufts.edu\/civicstudies\/\">Intro to Civic Studies<\/a> with my colleague Erin Kelly. Here is our syllabus, minus the grading rules, office hours, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>January 17:&nbsp;<\/strong>Introduction: A case from the <a href=\"http:\/\/pluralism.org\/casestudy\/\">Pluralism project<\/a> to spur discussion and raise questions about organizational types and purposes, disagreements about values, and how identities are involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>January 22:&nbsp;<\/strong>A \u201cfeeling of personal responsibility for the world\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Summer Institute of Civic Studies&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/tischcollege.tufts.edu\/civic-studies\/summer-institute\/framing-statement\">Framing Statement&nbsp;<\/a>.<\/li><li>Vaclav Havel,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/old.hrad.cz\/president\/Havel\/speeches\/1992\/2112_uk.html\">Address at Wroclaw University&nbsp;<\/a>(December 21, 1992)<\/li><li>Martin Luther King, Jr. &#8220;<a class=\"instructure_file_link instructure_scribd_file\" title=\"King_Time_for_Freedom.pdf\" href=\"\/courses\/6513\/files\/609576\/download?verifier=NDsVFUPnJyGnUb4jp7c0cAeR3X3nOu2iOxXharsE&amp;wrap=1\">The Time for Freedom has Come<\/a>&#8221; (1961).&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>January 24:&nbsp;<\/strong>The citizen in a modern democracy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>John Dewey,&nbsp;<em>The Public and its Problems<\/em>, Chapter 5, &#8220;Search for the Great Community.&#8221;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Problems of Collective Action<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>January 29:&nbsp;<\/strong>Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Elinor Ostrom,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/economic-sciences\/laureates\/2009\/ostrom-lecture.html\">Nobel Prize Lecture&nbsp;<\/a>(video or text)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>January 31:&nbsp;<\/strong>Ostrom Continued<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Thomas Dietz, Nives Dolsak, Elinor Ostrom, and Paul C. Stern, &#8220;The Drama of the Commons&#8221; in Elinor Ostrom, ed.,&nbsp;<em>Drama of the Commons<\/em>, pp. 3-26.<\/li><li>Elinor Ostrom,<em> Governing the Commons<\/em>, Ch. 1.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>February 5:&nbsp;<\/strong>Ostrom Continued<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Elinor Ostrom, <a class=\"instructure_file_link instructure_scribd_file\" title=\"Ostrom Governing the Commons chapters 1-3.pdf\" href=\"\/courses\/6513\/files\/609601\/download?verifier=SmWdpc3sby49cMU6Qwd41vzoFqai1c6G66ZjtvIk&amp;wrap=1\">Governing the Commons,<\/a> Ch. 3.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>February 7 and Feb 12 Social Capital<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Robert D. Putnam, &#8220;Bowling Alone: America&#8217;s Declining Social Capital,&#8221; <i>Journal of Democracy<\/i><span>&nbsp;6:1, Jan 1995, 65-78<\/span><\/li><li>Robert D. Putnam, &#8220;Community-Based Social Capital and Educational Performance,&#8221; in Ravitch and Viteritti, eds.,&nbsp;<em>Making Good Citizens<\/em>, pp. 58-95<\/li><li>Pierre Bourdieu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marxists.org\/reference\/subject\/philosophy\/works\/fr\/bourdieu-forms-capital.htm\"><em>Forms of Capital<\/em>,<\/a> 1986 (excerpt)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Identifying Good Ends and Means<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>February 14<\/strong>: A Deliberation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Pre-read the Harvard Pluralism Project&#8217;s case entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/pluralism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/CTP.CaseA_.pdf\">A Call to Prayer<\/a> and be ready to discuss what the people of Hamtramck, MI should do.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/18-w3JrIwPAkBUk5CBbH2ygucfb3-x64PnMf2UQWuDQg\/edit#heading=h.m71h43avuu9e\">First group assignment&nbsp;<\/a><\/em>(a simulation) is due<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<a class=\"instructure_file_link instructure_scribd_file\" title=\"Thomassen.pdf\" href=\"\/courses\/6513\/files\/634573\/download?verifier=3vxeTXVLCXj19duvvq9I6w8NVewqp7g3NgmyKXob&amp;wrap=1\"><span><\/span><\/a><strong>February 19:&nbsp;<\/strong>Habermas and Deliberative Democracy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>J\u00fcrgen Habermas, \u201cThe Public Sphere: An Encyclopedia Article,\u201d N<em>ew German Critique<\/em>, 3 (1974), pp. 49-55<\/li><li><span>Lasse Thomassen, <\/span><i>Habermas: A guide for the perplexed<\/i><span>. A&amp;C Black, 2010, pp. 63-96, 111-130.<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">February 26:&nbsp;<\/strong>Habermas Continued<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>J\u00fcrgen Habermas, <em>Theory of Communicative Action&nbsp;<\/em>(selection)&nbsp;<\/li><li>J\u00fcrgen Habermas, <em>Between Facts and Norms<\/em>,&nbsp;pp. 17-23, 38-41<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">February 28:&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;The Conditions for Deliberation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>J\u00fcrgen Habermas,&nbsp;<em>Between Facts and Norms,&nbsp;<\/em>pp. 359-379<\/li><li>Danielle E. Allen,&nbsp;<em>Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship Since Brown, v. Board of Education,&nbsp;<\/em>pp. TBA<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Final draft of first paper due<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>March 12: <\/strong>John Rawls<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>John Rawls,&nbsp;<em>A Theory of Justice<\/em>, pp. 3-19, 52-57<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>March 14: <\/strong>Testimony and Empathy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Lynn Sanders, \u201cAgainst Deliberation\u201d<\/li><li>Emily McRae, \u201cEmpathy, Compassion, and \u2018Exchanging Self and Other\u2019 in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Ethics\u201d for Handbook of Philosophy of Empathy (Routledge), edited by Heidi Maibom, 2017.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>March 14: Midterm in class<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>March 15-25: <\/strong>Spring Break<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Social Movements&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>March 26:&nbsp;<\/strong>Social Movements&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Charles Tilly,&nbsp;&#8220;Social Movements, 1768-2004&#8221;<\/li><li>Marshall Ganz, &#8220;Why David Sometimes Wins: Strategic Capacity in Social Movements,&#8221; in Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper, Rethinking Social Movements: Structure, Meaning, and Emotion (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004) pp.177-98.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>March 28: Exclusion and Identity<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/10\/10-h\/10-h.htm#The_Book_of_Nehemiah\">The Book of Nehemiah<\/a><\/li><li>Audre Lorde, \u201cThe Master\u2019s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master\u2019s House.\u201d<\/li><li>Steve Biko,&nbsp;\u201cBlack Consciousness and the Quest for True Humanity\u201d&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/18-w3JrIwPAkBUk5CBbH2ygucfb3-x64PnMf2UQWuDQg\/edit#heading=h.k4bp8jpjflad\">Second group assignment&nbsp;<\/a>due<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>April 2:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Identity and the Common Good<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Lilla,&nbsp;Mark Lilla, &#8220;The End of Identity Politics,&#8221; <em>The New York Times<\/em>, Nov. 18, 2016<\/li><li>Todd Gitlin, \u201cThe Left Lost in Identity Politics,\u201d Harpers, Sept. 1993&nbsp;<\/li><li>Transcript of an encounter: Hillary Clinton and Julius Jones<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>April 4:<\/strong>&nbsp;Community Organizing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Saul Alinsky<em>,&nbsp;Reveille for Radicals<\/em>,&nbsp;1946 (1969 edition), pp. 76-81; 85-88; 92-100, 132-5, 155-158.<\/li><li>Myles Horton and Paulo Freire,&nbsp;<em>We Make the Road by Walking<\/em>, pp. 115-138<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>April 9:&nbsp;<\/strong>Nonviolent Campaigns<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Martin Luther King,&nbsp;Stride Toward Freedom, chapters 3, 4, and 5.<\/li><li>Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan,&nbsp;<em>Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict<\/em>, chapters 1 and 2&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>April 11: <\/strong>Impure Dissent<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Tommie <span>Shelby, <em>Dark Ghettos, <\/em>38-48, 252-73<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>April 16, 18: <\/strong>Nonviolence (PL)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Bikhu Parekh,&nbsp;<em>Gandhi<\/em>,&nbsp;Chapter 4 (&#8220;Satyagraha&#8221;), pp. 51-62;<\/li><li><a class=\"instructure_file_link instructure_scribd_file\" title=\"Parekh.pdf\" href=\"\/courses\/6513\/files\/609541\/download?verifier=mEaVKz8Q3D3Xg2fryDwfCd2erCJ6lQJBlhvChOC6&amp;wrap=1\"><\/a>Gandhi,&nbsp;Satyagraha&nbsp;(Ahmedabad: Navajivan Publishing Co., 1951), excerpts.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>April 18: <\/strong>Gandhi continued (PL)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Gandhi, <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Notes, May 22, 1924 &#8211; August 15, 1924, in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Electronic Book), New Delhi, Publications Division Government of India, 1999, 98 volumes, vol. 28, pp. 307-310<\/span><\/li><li>Timothy Garton Ash, \u201cVelvet Revolution: The Prospects,\u201d New York Review of Books, December 3, 2009&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Person in Community<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>April 23:&nbsp;<\/strong>Civic Education: What all this means for what students should learn (EK)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Joel Westheimer and Joseph E. Kahne, \u201cEducating the \u2018Good Citizen\u2019: Political Choices and Pedagogical Goals<u>,<\/u>\u201d&nbsp;<em>PS Online<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/18-w3JrIwPAkBUk5CBbH2ygucfb3-x64PnMf2UQWuDQg\/edit#heading=h.5mr8qhszs4er\"><em>Third group assignment&nbsp;<\/em><\/a><em>due<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>April 25:&nbsp;<\/strong>Civic Studies at Tufts and Beyond<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Draft of second paper due<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>May 7: <\/strong>Final paper due.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am about to start teaching Intro to Civic Studies with my colleague Erin Kelly. 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