***Attendance | 10% | |
***In-class participation | 10% | |
***CourseInfo Discussion Board participation | 10% | |
Thought paper | 10% | |
1-5 response papers | 10% each | |
1-5 case studies | 10% each |
Jan 11 | no reading |
Jan 13 | [handout] Nat Hentoff, "Prologue" |
[handout] Carolyn Marvin, "Bad Attitudes, Unnatural Acts" |
Jan 18 | Thought paper due |
Areopagitica and Of Education, pp. vii-x, 1-56 | |
Jan 20 | [reserve] Stanley Fish, "There's No Such Thing As Free Speech and It's a Good Thing, Too" |
Jan 25 | Completed grading contract due |
First Discussion Board post due | |
On Liberty and Utilitarianism, pp. vii-xxvi, 1-63 | |
Jan 27 | On Liberty and Utilitarianism, pp. 64-107 |
Feb 1 | Case study #1 due |
On Liberty and Utilitarianism, pp. 108-133 | |
[reserve] Herbert Marcuse, "Repressive Tolerance" | |
Feb 3 | The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States |
Feb 8 | 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) |
Feb 10 | Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, 315 US 568 (1942) |
Terminiello v. Chicago, 337 US 1 (1949) | |
Cohen v. California, 403 US 15 (1971) |
Feb 15 | R.A.V. v. St. Paul, 505 US 377 (1992) |
Wisconsin v. Mitchell, 508 US 476 (1993) |
Feb 17 | Texas v. Johnson, 491 US 397 (1989) |
United States v. Eichman, 496 US 310 (1990) |
Mar 2 | New York Times v. United States, 403 US 715 (1971) |
Mar 7 | New York Times v. Sullivan, 376 US 254 (1964) |
Hustler v. Falwell, 485 US 46 (1988) |
Mar 9 | Jacobellis v. Ohio, 378 US 184 (1964) |
Miller v. California, 413 US 15 (1973) |
Mar 14 | NO CLASS -- SPRING BREAK |
Mar 16 | NO CLASS -- SPRING BREAK |
Mar 21 | Case study #3 due |
FCC v. Pacifica Foundation, 438 US 726 (1978) |
Mar 23 | Reno v. ACLU, --- US --- (1997) |
Mar 28 | [reserve] Commission on Obscenity and Pornography // Susan Brownmiller, "Should Pornography Be Protected as Free Speech?" |
[reserve] Frank Easterbrook // James C. Dobson, "Should Pornography Be Protected as Free Speech?" | |
Mar 30 | [reserve] Susan Griffin, Pornography and Silence [selections] |
[reserve] Sallie Tisdale, Talk Dirty to Me [selections] |
Apr 4 | [reserve] Jonathan Wallace and Mark Mangan, "Bomb Speech" |
[reserve] Nat Hentoff, "God, I Understand How They Feel, But When Will They Think?" |
Apr 6 | [reserve] Jack Valenti // Paul Schrader, "Does the Letter Still Rate? |
[reserve] Peter Travers, "An X by Any Other Name" | |
[reserve] Benjamin Svetkey, "Why Movie Ratings Don't Work" |
Apr 11 | Case study #4 due |
[reserve] Reebee Garofalo, "Setting the Record Straight" | |
[reserve] Jonathan Alter, "Let's Stop Crying Wolf on Censorship" | |
[reserve] Michael Eric Dyson, "Gangsta Rap and American Culture" | |
Apr 13 | [reserve] Tricia Rose, "Fear of a Black Planet" |
Apr 18 | [reserve] Richard Bolton (ed.), Culture Wars [selections] |
Apr 20 | [reserve] Jonathan Wallace and Mark Mangan, "Memphis Rules" |
[reserve] Donna M. Riley, "Sex, Fear and Condescension on Campus" |
Apr 25 | [reserve] The Turner Diaries [selections] |
Apr 27 | All rewritten assignments due |
to be announced |
May 2 | NO CLASS |
5:00 pm | Case study #5 due |
deadline for Discussion Board posts |