Announcements: This page includes all announcements relevant to Cliff Donn's section of COR 400. Any administrative matters, changes in the syllabus, changes in the class schedule, emergency class cancellations, or changes in course requirements will be noted here. It is your obligation to check this page several times each week. Don't stop checking just because intially you don't find any announcements. |
Students
are not permitted to leave early or return late from Fall Break (Columbus
Day) or Thanksgiving Break unless they are ill. If you miss the class
immediately before or after one of those breaks you will be required to
provide a doctor's note demonstrating your illness. If you don't have such a
note, you will be required either to drop the class or to do a substantial
extra assignment, at the instructor's discretion. |
Please
check the "assignments" link on the course home page. It now
contains basic information about the assignments for the semester and what
choices you have with regard to those assignments. Over the next week or so I
shall be adding links on "assignments" page with even more detail.
Also please check the format requirements link. |
The
library is unable to find its copies of The Radical Right by
Daniel Bell and Black of Power by Stokely
Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton. I believe these are only optional
readings in any case but I am removing them from the syllabus. |
I
have added the following book to the reading list: Clarence Taylor, Reds
at the Blackboard: Communism, Civil Rights, and the New York City Teachers
Union. It is available electronically at the library and the link is on
the electronic reserve list. You will need to read chapters 4, 7, 9, and 10
before the class on October 3. |
The
course requirements indicate that at least 20% of course work is to be
completed by September 30. I'll allow you to hand in such work at the
beginning of class on October 3 without any penalty. The later requirements
have been moved back from October 31 to November 2 and from November 15 to
November 16. The assignment link has been altered to reflect these changes. |
One of you has correctly pointed out to me that the Alice
Wexler book (about Emma Goldman) is not on my reserve list and thus not on
reserve at the library. I have now asked the library to put it on reserve so
please read it as soon as possible. I understand that it may not be possible
for most of you to read it by class on Thursday, 10/11. If you cannot read
it, please instead read John Birch Society, "Beliefs and Principles of
the John Birch Society" in Sargent and "Birchers and
Minutemen" in Levitas, The Terrorist Next
Door. |
Office hours are cancelled for Monday, November 27. |