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***Course listserv | 10% | |
Thought paper | 10% | |
1-4 response papers | 10% each | |
1-4 case studies | 10% each | |
1-4 pre-selected website reviews | 5% each | |
1-4 self-selected website reviews | 5% each | |
Take-home final exam | 30% |
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Pop quizzes | 15% |
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Aug 25 | no reading |
Aug 27 | Michael Tomasky, "Free for All" |
Nat Hentoff, "Prologue" | |
Carolyn Marvin, "Bad Attitudes, Unnatural Acts" |
Sep 1 | Areopagitica |
Sep 3 | Stanley Fish, "There's No Such Thing As Free Speech and It's a Good Thing, Too" |
Sep 8 | Thought paper due |
On Liberty (chs. 1-3) | |
Sep 10 | On Liberty (chs. 4-5) |
Sep 15 | Completed grading contract due |
Herbert Marcuse, "Repressive Tolerance" | |
Sep 17 | The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States |
Sep 22 | Last day to subscribe to the listserv without penalty |
Schenck v. United States, 249 US 47 (1919) | |
Gitlow v. New York, 268 US 652 (1925) | |
Whitney v. California, 274 US 357 (1927) | |
Brandenburg v. Ohio, 395 US 444 (1969) |
Sep 24 | Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, 315 US 568 (1942) |
Terminiello v. Chicago, 337 US 1 (1949) | |
Cohen v. California, 403 US 15 (1971) |
Sep 29 | Pre-selected website review #1 due |
R.A.V. v. St. Paul, 505 US 377 (1992) | |
Wisconsin v. Mitchell, 508 US 476 (1993) |
Oct 1 | Texas v. Johnson, 491 US 397 (1989) |
United States v. Eichman, 496 US 310 (1990) |
Oct 15 | New York Times v. United States, 403 US 715 (1971) |
Oct 20 | Case study #2 due |
Pre-selected website review #4 due | |
New York Times v. Sullivan, 376 US 254 (1964) | |
Hustler v. Falwell, 485 US 46 (1988) |
Oct 22 | Jacobellis v. Ohio, 378 US 184 (1964) |
Miller v. California, 413 US 15 (1973) |
Oct 27 | Self-selected website review #1 due |
FCC v. Pacifica Foundation, 438 US 726 (1978) |
Oct 29 | Reno v. ACLU, --- US --- (1997) |
Nov 3 | Case study #3 due |
Self-selected website review #2 due | |
Commission on Obscenity and Pornography // Susan Brownmiller, "Should Pornography Be Protected as Free Speech?" | |
Frank Easterbrook // James C. Dobson, "Should Pornography Be Protected as Free Speech?" | |
Nov 5 | Susan Griffin, Pornography and Silence [selections] |
Sallie Tisdale, Talk Dirty to Me [selections] |
Nov 10 | Self-selected website review #3 due |
Jonathan Wallace and Mark Mangan, "Bomb Speech" | |
Nat Hentoff, "God, I Understand How They Feel, But When Will They Think?" |
Nov 12 | Jack Valenti // Paul Schrader, "Does the Letter Still Rate? |
Peter Travers, "An X by Any Other Name" | |
Benjamin Svetkey, "Why Movie Ratings Don't Work" |
Nov 17 | Case study #4 due |
Self-selected website review #4 due | |
Reebee Garofalo, "Setting the Record Straight" | |
Jonathan Alter, "Let's Stop Crying Wolf on Censorship" | |
Michael Eric Dyson, "Gangsta Rap and American Culture" | |
Nov 19 | Tricia Rose, "Fear of a Black Planet" |
Nov 24 | no class |
Nov 26 | no class |
Dec 1 | Richard Bolton (ed.), Culture Wars [selections] |
Dec 3 | Jonathan Wallace and Mark Mangan, "Memphis Rules" |
Donna M. Riley, "Sex, Fear and Condescension on Campus" |
Dec 8 | no class |
5:00 pm | all rewritten assignments due |
deadline for listserv posts | |
Take-home final due |