| Week 1: January 19,
21, 23--Introducing Justice
Spring semester classes begin on Tuesday, January 20
Friday, "Justice From the Scottsboro Case," by Dan T. Carter, Chapel.
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| Week 2: January 26, 28,
30--Defining Justice
Frank
W. Buckner, "Justice
and the Bible" (Online essay)
Alden Nowlan, "The Practice
of Mercy" (Justice, p. 5)
Plato, Thrasymachus,
dialog from the Republic
(Justice, p. 1)
Aristotle,
Nichomachean
Ethics, Book V (Justice, p. 6)
John
Rawls, "Justice as Fairness" (Justice, p. 13)
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| Week 3: February 2, 4,
6--Economic
Justice
Friday, February 6: Temple Beth Or, [Map], 6:30 p.m.
N.O.A.B.: Luke 19:1 - 20:18
Milton Friedman,
"The Social Responsibilitiy
of Business" (Justice, p. 25)
Elizabeth Kolbert, "The Calculator"
Barbara Ehrenreich, "Nickel-and-Dimed"
Karl Marx, Economic
& Philosophical Manuscripts (Justice, p. 17)
"The Ford Pinto Memorandum" (Justice, p. 28)
Bertolt Brecht,
"The World's One Hope" (Justice, p. 29)
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Presenters:
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Patrick
Leah
Catherine X
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Jared
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| Week 4: February 9, 11,
13--Justice
in Gender
N.O.A.B.: Ruth,
Romans
I
U.S. Magistrate Judge Kristi D. Lee, "Justice
in Gender" [Notes]
Virginia
Woolf, from
A
Room of One's Own (Justice, p. 83) [Notes]
Ellis
Cose, "Stirrings of Discontent"
(Justice, p. 90)
Sor Juana Ines
de la Cruz, "Response to ... Poetess Sor Filotea" (p.101)
June Jordan,
"Poem About My Rights" (Justice, p. 114)
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Ricky, Adam
Ashley
Marie
Keshia
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| Week 5: February 16,
18, 20--Justice in Sexuality
No class on Monday, February 16 (Winter Break)
N.O.A.B.: Leviticus
18, I Corinthians 5,
Proverbs 31
David Nimmons, "Sex and the
Brain" (Justice, p. 117)
Michael Ruse,
"Is Homosexuality Bad Sexuality?"
(Justice, p. 130)
Peter J.
Gomes, from The Good Book
(Justice, p. 145)
U.S. Supreme Court, Bowers v. Hardwick (Justice, p. 124)
Larry Gonick, "Honey I Shrank the Neurons" (Justice, p. 152)
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Ricky, Ricky, Mark
Chase
Leah
Jason
Patrick
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20% Friday Week 5 & Monday, week 6:
essay test. (20% )
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| Week 6: February
23, 25, 27--Justice, Beauty, and Power
Friday, Lecture: "The Bluest Eye,"
by Jacqueline Trimble, Chapel.
N.O.A.B.: Philemon, I Peter 2:11-25
Toni Morrison,
The
Bluest Eye
Pearl Cleage,
"Can You See Them?" (Justice, p. 154)
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Ricky, Jacob, Cath X
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Chase X |
| Week 7: March 1, 3, 5--The
Civil Rights Movement
Friday, March 5: Lecture: "Macbeth,"
by Robin Gunther, Chapel.
AL Shakespeare Festival,
Macbeth,
Festival Stage, Blount Park,
7:00 p.m.
N.O.A.B.: Romans
13, Acts 5:29
Martin Luther King,
Jr., "Letter from Birmingham
Jail" (Justice, p. 163)
Malcolm X, "from
The
Autobiography of Malcolm X (Justice, p. 172)
U.S. Supreme Court, "Brown v.
Board of Education" (Justice, p. 182), "Bolling v. Sharpe"
(p. 185), "Brown II" (p. 186)
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Adam/Ricky
Keshia
Cole
Amber |
| Week 8: March 8,
10, 12--Global Justice
Monday, Film: The
Day the Earth Stood Still, Capri
Theatre, Capri theatre. (Runtime: 92 mins.)
United Nations, "Globalization With a
Human Face" (Justice, p. 30)
Benjamin
Barber, from Jihad
vs. McWorld (Justice, p. 44) [Notes]
Samuel P. Huntington, "The Clash of Civilizations?" (Justice, p.
49)
"Fundamentalism," by R. Scott
Appleby and Martin E. Marty,
Foreign Policy, Jan/Feb 2002
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Week 9: March 15,
17, 19--The Holocaust
Monday, Lecture: "The Holocaust,"
by
Rabbi
David Baylinson, Chapel.
N.O.A.B.: Psalm 83, Job 1-3
Elie Wiesel,
Night
Nelly Sachs, "O the Chimneys" (Justice, p. 200)
Krister
Stendahl, "Anti-Semitism" (Online essay)
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Leah /Jason
Marie
Ashley |
| Week 10: March 22,
24, 26--Spring Break |
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| Week 11: March
29,
31, April 2--Human Rights [Notes]
Monday, Lecture: "Living Under an
Unjust Regime," by Harald
Rohlig, Chapel.
N.O.A.B.: Isaiah
65:17-25
United Nations, Universal
Decloration of Human Rights (Justice, p. 187)
Fitjof Capra, "Deep Ecology--A
New Paradigm" (Justice, p. 191)
U.N. Fourth Conference on Women, Beijing Declaration (Justice,
p. 197)
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Mark X
Keshia XX
Jason
Catherine XX |
| Week 12: April
5,
7,
9--Justice
in War
Mon., April 5 (Section 3), Lecture:
The
Green Table, [Notes],
Diana
Green, Recital Hall.
N.O.A.B.: Joshua
1-12
Thomas Aquinas,
"Of War" from Summa
Theologica (Justice, p. 201)
Wray R. Johnson, "Just War and Law
of War: A Primer" (Online essay)
No class on Friday, April 9 (Good Friday)
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EmilyBeth
Brandon
Chase X |
| Before you leave: Friday Week
12: paper due, 4 pages with
citations. (20%) May be slipped under door of FL 209 or in Box 947. |
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| Week 13: April
12,
14,
16--Justice,
Science, and Technology
Wed. (Section 3): Video: The
Day After Trinity, 10:00 - 11:30 a.m., Smith Recital Hall
N.O.A.B.: Psalm 11
Linus
Pauling, "The Social Responsibility of Scientists and Science" (Justice,
p. 237)
Yehuda Amichai,
"Like Our Bodies' Imprint" (Justice, p. 245)
Friday classes cancelled for
Presidential inauguration.
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| Week 14: April 19, 21,
23--Justice in Statecraft
N.O.A.B.: Matthew 5-7
Niccolo
Machiavelli, from The
Prince (Justice, p. 246)
Lao
Tzu, from Tao
te Ching (Justice, p. 264)
Declaration
of Independence (Justice, p. 268)
The
Constitution of the United States (Justice, p. 271)
Last chances for presentations (10%) and discussion (20%).
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Jacob
Patrick
Cole
Keshia
Joshua |
| Week 15: April 26, 28,
30--Unsettled Issues and Neglected Questions
Wednesday, April 28: Lecture by
Ellen
Brooks, Montgomery County District Attorney, Chapel.
Reminder: last chances for presentations (10%) and discussion
(20%).
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| Week 16: May 3, 5,
7--Final
Examination
Last class Monday, May 3; No class on Wed, May 5 (Dead Day)
Final Examination: 2:00 p.m., Friday, May 7
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