NOTE: The handouts provided in class or used for assignments can also be
retrieved at this HANDOUTS LINK.
CLASS READINGS
In addition to the three texts, readings will includes URLs, class
handouts, and PDS and MSWord files. You can also expect audio/video
and powerpoint exercises and games. Therefore, it is IMPERATIVE that you
have internet access that can access these files. This is one way of keeping
course costs down and expanding resources not available in conventional
textbook-based classes.
October 10: Readings
(Conclude Tyler)
(more short readings coming within 4 days)
October 8: Readings
-- German Ideology/Marx
--Tyler, Chapter 6
September 29:
a) Chapters 3-5 of Tyler
b) Plato Book I and Book II of the Repubic
c) Take a look at these potential ASSIGNMENTS related to readings
the Repubic
d) Plato and Aristotle and all those old, dead guys (readings coming)
--Plato's view of Justice
--Excerpt from Plato's Republic
September 24: Sharpening the defninition
a) Wikipedia Social Justice summary
b) WebBoard discussion topics (Discuss readings on WebBoard)
c) Beginning of Net/Web online games/exercises
d) Plato and Aristotle and all those old, dead guys (readings coming)
e) Ethics Summary
f) Tyler, Chapters 1 and 2
g) Take a look at these potential ASSIGNMENTS related to readings
September 17--READINGS:
a) Michelle Maiese: Types of Justice
b) Chapters 1 and 2 of Tyler
c) Bible (Is "social justice" a Biblical concept?)
**CLASS TASK: Be prepared to discuss this
a) A concise history of liberation theology
b) Liberation theology/past, present, future Ethics
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Any questions, drop me a note. Jim Thomas - jthomas@sun.soci.niu.edu