Due date:

Reading due that date:

For extra credit:

Jan. 13

FIRST DAY OF CLASS

15

17

Joan Didion: Marrying Absurd

a / a

20

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: NO CLASS

22

24

Susan Sontag: Women's Beauty

b / d

27

Gloria Steinem: Erotica and Pornography

b / a, b, c

29

31

Jo Goodwin Parker: What is Poverty?

b / a

Feb. 3

Gail Sheehy: Predictable Crises of Adulthood

b / a

5

7

10

Judith Viorst: The Truth about Lying

b / a, b

12

14

Deborah Tannen: Talk in the Intimate Relationship: His and Hers

a

17

19

21

Suzanne Britt: Neat People vs. Sloppy People

a / a

24

26

28

Peter Farb and George Armelagos: The Patterns of Eating

b / b, c

Mar. 3

Marya Mannes: How Do You Know It’s Good?

/ a, d

5

7

10

Barbara Dafoe Whitehead: Where Have All the Parents Gone?

b / a, c

12

14

SPRING BREAK

24

Philip Meyer: If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger, Would You?

b / a

26

28

Plato: The Myth of the Cave

b / a

4

Albert Camus: The Myth of Sisyphus

a / a

Apr. 2

4

Nicols Fox: Gawk Shows

a / a, b, c, d

7

9

11

Nat Hentoff: Should This Student Have Been Expelled?

a, b, c / a

14

Garrett Hardin: Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor

a / a

16

18

21

Mike Wallace: The Press Needs a National Monitor

b / a, b, c

23

25

Ann N. Martin: Food Pets Die For

a / a

28

30

May 2

LAST DAY OF CLASS