Guidelines on Reading Philosophy
Syllabus
Presentation Rubric
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8am Groups
9:25 Groups
12:15 Groups
Schedule & Readings
| Schedule Date |
Topic |
Work Due |
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| 1/27 |
Introduction to Course and Each Other |
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PRELIMINARIES
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| 1/29 |
Intro to Constructing and Evaluating Arguments
Reading 1
Reading 2 |
| 2/3 |
On Stereotypes, Blum |
| 2/5 |
Cont’d |
| 2/10 |
White Privilege, McIntosh
Why Is Privilege So Hard to Give Up, Cherry |
| 2/19 |
What do Accounts of Racism Do, Blum |
HW #1 |
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| 2/20 |
CLASS FOLLOWS A MONDAY SCHEDULE
Principles of Punishment and Excuses, Hart |
| 2/24 |
Why Punish the Guilty, Wasserstrum |
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JUDICIAL & CORRECTIONAL ETHICAL ISSUES |
| 2/26 |
Whose the Man? Rudy Cooper |
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| 3/3 |
Racial Profiling: Legal & Constitutional Issues |
| 3/5 |
Implicit Bias (Pgs.1126-1139,) |
| 3/10 |
The Ethics and Plea Bargaining, Yaroshefsky |
HW # 2 |
| 3/12 |
Racial Quotas and the Jury, Alschuler |
| 3/17 |
Playing the Race Card in a Criminal Trial, Kennedy |
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| 3/19 |
Jury Based Jury Nullification, Butler 1-21 |
| 3/24 |
Black Power In the Jury Box, Kennedy HW #3 |
| 3/26 |
Aristotle and Seneca on Anger |
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| 3/31 |
Gender and Emotion in Criminal Law, Baker |
| 4/2 |
Racial Disparity in Sentencing |
| 4/7 |
Implicit Bias (pgs.1142-1148,1172-84) |
| 4/9 |
How Gender Structures the Prison System,Ch.4 pg. 60 Davis |
| 4/15 -22 |
SPRING BREAK |
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| 4/23 |
Babies Behind Bars
The Price They Pay |
| 4/28 |
Phillips Vs. Michigan Dept of Corrections IN CLASS DEBATE
“Trapped” in Sing Sing: Transgender Prisoners
Caught In the Gender Binary (516-520,551-568)
Recommended: Transexual Prisoners Fact Sheet |
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| 4/30 |
Solitary Confinement and Supermax |
HW #4 |
| 5/5 |
Solitary Confinement as torture in the cellars of hollow men
Solitary Confinement (due process & 8th Amend.) Begin at pg.125 |
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| 5/7 |
The New Jim Crow (Chapter 4) |
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| 5/12 |
The New Jim Crow (Chapter 5) HW #5 |
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| 5/14 |
Racial Critiques of Mass Incarceration Forman |
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| 5/21/14 (by 2:30) |
Final Exam (Take Home Exam Instructions Click HERE) |
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