American Studies II
Professor Woodling
Monday 9 to 10:30/Wednesday 9:30 to 12/Friday 2 to 3
Pre-fab buildings, room 6/5
Syllabus (click here)
Lecture Notes
- Notes of Frederick Douglass's "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July"
- Notes on Langston Hughes
- Notes on Frederick Jackson Turner's "The Significance of the Frontier in American History"
- Notes on Chapter 4 from American Ways about the American Frontier
- Notes on Chapter 5 from American Ways about American Abundance
- The Singer Solution to World Poverty
- Notes on Chapter 11 from Americans Ways about American Family
- Notes on Chapter 5 from Meanings in Madagascar about Malagasy family structures
- Notes from Chapter 9 from American Ways about American Education
- Notes on Chapter 7 from Meanings in Madagascar about Malagasy pragmatics
Assignments
Links
- An analysis of the Declaration of Independence (ReadWorks)
- CNN article on gun violence
- Summary of "Guns, Germs, and Steel” by Jarod Diamond
- “Lifeboat Ethics: the Case Against Helping the Poor” (1974) by Garrett Hardin
- "The Singer Solution to World Poverty” (1999) by Peter Singer
- Pew Research Center Report on family demographics in America
- Comparison of housework by gender in some Western countries
- Bill of Rights
- Johnson's Great Society Programs
- ReadWorks.org article on Native American Conflict
- ReadWorks.org article on Native American Culture
- ReadWorks.org article on the New Deal
- ReadWords.org article on Brown vs. Board of Education Opinion