Week EIght: Lamenting the Rise of Babel
This week we examine a second round of criticism from the 1980's and 1990's called "the culture wars." These writings are caught in an age old debate concerning education: is it more important to learn knowledge or skills? As these readings intimate, such a question does not have an easy answer.
Again, like last week, the views expressed in this week reflect the opinions of the individual writers and in no way represent those of WMCS or his affiliates.
- Monday
- No Class--October Break
- Homework
- Drupal Posts: Class responsibility for this week is Query posts. Due up Tuesday by midnight. Website URL to follow.
- Watch a Simpsons episdoe
- Wednesday
- Simpsons exercise?
- Homework
- Annotation #2
- Thursday
- What's all this fuss about liberal education? Reading Yeats' "Leda and the Swan"
- Homework:
- Read, coursepack-- Aronowitz, Readings, the draft of The Spelling’s Commission Report on Education, and CollegeGrad.com's “Under Employment Affects 18% on Entry-Level Job Seekers”
- Conferences
- Format: Teams of Four, 20 minutes.
- Goal: Discuss Project 2, Part D.
- Preparation: Bring your brain