17: Discuss "Summary" (3-19); discuss "Panopticon" (467-474)

18: Discuss "The Nature and Meaning of Data" (423-429) and "You're Not Paranoid: They Really are Watching You" (430-440). Begin finding CAT card information. Discuss Response Paper assignment.

19: Discuss "Privacy in the Workplace" (441-445) and "Computers in the Workplace: Elysium or Panopticon" (454-460).

22: Discuss CAT Card issue (bring in the texts you have found on the issue): Rhetorical positions, assumptions, and implications. Response Paper Due.

23: Discuss "The Changing Nature of Information" (449-453)

24: Workshop Rough Drafts of Essay #1

25: Conferences, Brenda's activity to be announced

26: essay #1 Due.
Unit 2 overview: ideological analysis of your own beliefs about education and "politics." Discuss how to get essay from "reserve"
Movie: Big Night

29: Discuss "Ideology" (on reserve in library). Bring a synopsis of the reading to class with a list of looked up terms, questions, and comments.

30: Discuss "Political Quiz" (249-251) and "The L.A. Riots: A Case Study of Debate Across the Political Spectrum" (264-281)

July

1: Discuss "Guides to Political Conflicts" (282-289) 
and "Liberalism, Conservatism, Socialism, Libertarianism"

2: Discuss "Politics: The Art of Bamboozling" (300-314)

3:NO CLASS!

6:  Response Paper #2 Due
Discuss "Group Minds" (356-358)

7: Reflect on discussions from Unit 1 in terms of the concepts and your responses from Unit 2. Discuss incorporation of materials and examples into your personal analysis. Discuss the difference between self-analysis and interpretation/argumentation

8: Workshop Rough Drafts of Essay #2

9: Conferences. Brenda's activity to be announced

10: Essay #2 Due.
Unit 3 overview--issues of corporatization, connecting to campus issues. Discuss the campus issues groups are researching. Defining terms and concepts.

13: Reading on corporate influence on campus (to be announced). Discuss "Net Worth" (on reserve).

14: Discuss "Ban the Bargains" (203-206) and "Competing with the Discount Mass Merchandisers" (209-215). Identify local issues parallel to the WalMart debate.

15: Discuss "Eight Ways to Stop the Store" (207-208) and "Who's Really the Villain" (222-224) and "Doonesbury" (231-233). Prepare presentations for conference (conference presentations will relate to activism)

16: Class meets from 7:30-8:30--Continue preparation of activism presentations for conference.

9:00am: Academic Conference

17: Discuss campus issues. Bring relevant articles and materials for your issue for analysis. Describe the issue, ways to address the issue. Explain your response/approach for the assignment.

20: Workshop Essay #3

21: Group workshops, discussions. Brenda's activity to be announced.

22: Essay #3 Due. Generate questions for final exam.

23: Group presentations

24: Final Essay Exam