JANUARY
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FEBRUARY
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MARCH
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APRIL
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Fri. 28

Introd: Pinker, to read in class. Handouts: INTRO & "Always Time to Kill" [Sartre, Frankl for Thurs.]

 Discuss INTRO and "Always Time to Kill [Assign Bhagavad Gita, Blue-Skinned God, etc.,for late next week.]

Xavier Monasterio: Sartre, freedom, & the environment. [Assign: viewing of film Pixote by Monday.]

Percio Castro on the Portuguese film, Pixote. [Assign first two acts of "The Infernal Machine."]

Barnes: Discuss Bhagavad Gita, and Arrow of the Blue Skinned God, Islam - religious passivism

Enrique Romaguera: on Jean Cocteau's play, the Infernal Machine [Assign readings from Augustine]

Barnes: Written assignment due; discussion. Background on Western thought? [Assign late medieval readings]
 

Maureen Tilley on Augustine and Predestination. [Assign Muslim texts.]

John Inglis, late medieval arguments Muslim and Christian. [Assign Calvin]

Barnes: on Islamic predestination

Bill Trollinger, on Calvin and predestination (Arminianism?)

Second written assignment due. Discussion of will of God & predestination. [Assign Mohist text, Cicero, Hume.]

Barnes: intro to philosophies of freedom.
Discuss Mohist text, Cicero on Stoic Fatalism [Assign de Beauvoir]

Paul Benson: David Hume's "compatibilism." [Assign last philosophy texts.]

Marilyn Fischer: on Simone de Beauvoir, freedom and environment.

Daniel Dennett on the notion of free will. End section on philosophy. [Assign readings in psychology]

Spencer and Marx on the inevitability of history. (Bridge from philosophy to social science section)

3^rd written assignment due. Discuss phils of freedom & determinism

 Mark Rye: psychology and freedom. Assign sociobiology [and anthropol] reading Paper Theme Statement Due

SPRING BREAK
 

Randy Breitwisch: sociobiology. [Assign Piaget, Kohlberg, and Fowler]

Barnes. On anthropology of material culture [Assign: cultural evolution.]

Barnes on developmental theories: Piaget, Kohlberg, and Fowler

Barnes on cultural evolution. FIRST DRAFT OF PAPER DUE (to be read and analyzed by a classmate, as assigned later)

 4^th written assignment due. Discussion of sociobiological, psychological, and cultural influences.

Presentations by students on their papers
[30% of grade based on paper; 5% extra on presentation of paper]
Presentations by students on their papers
Presentations by students on their papers
Presentations by students on their papers

Easter Recess

Last Class: review course; discuss outcomes. Preview final assignment.

Exam week. Final exam due Friday, April 28 at noon, in HM room 466
Final Exam 5^th written assignment. 20% of the grade