Pensum/l?ringskrav

Recommended:

  • L. Bj?rk, et. Al., The Writing Process: Composition Writing for University Students, especially, Chapters II & III (reference section, Sophus Bugges library).

Required:

  • Alec Fisher, Critical Thinking: An Introduction

Excerpts averaging 15 pages from the following books and articles (Classfronter):

A. Classical Works in American Studies:

  • Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull House
  • Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio
  • Robert Bellah, "Civil Religion in America"
  • Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer
  • John Dewey, Democrcay and Education
  • Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography
  • Paul Goodman, Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals
  • Thomas Jefferson, “The Ward Republic”
  • Jack Kerouac, “Ghosts of the Pawtucketville Night”
  • C. Lasch, Culture of Narcissism
  • Lewis Mumford, The Myth of the Machine
  • Thomas Paine, Common Sense
  • Vernon Louis Parrington, Main Currents in American Thought
  • Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
  • Alan Trachtenberg, The Incorporation of America
  • F. J. Turner, The Frontier in American History

B. Contemporary Academic Texts/Discourses:

  • Kathleen K. Abowitz & Jason Harnish, “Contemporary Discourses of Citizenship” in Review of Educational Research (2006)
  • Judith Vega, “A neorepublican cultural citizenship: beyond Marxism and liberalism” in Citizenship Studies (2010)
  • Desmond King, Making Americans: Immigration, Race and the Origins of Diverse Democracy (Harvard, 2000)
  • Peter Newman, Timothy Beatley, & Heather Boyer, Resilient Cities: Responding to Peak Oil and Climate Change (Island Press, 2009)

Publisert 5. nov. 2010 12:19 - Sist endret 2. des. 2010 15:22