Schedule and Assignments:  Social Movements and Society - Spring 2003

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Office hours are 11:15 to 12:00 Monday, Wednesday and Friday in 325 Armitage.   Email: Ted Goertzel. Poster Session Photos.  
 
Assignments and Quizzes Due in Class Due on WEBCT
Note:  assignments should be submitted in class OR to WEBCT, not both. Paper assignments are accepted only in class on the day due. Electronic assignments must be submitted to WEBCT. Instructions
Signing Up for WEBCT and the Class Mailing List. NA January 30, 5 p.m.
Post your "What I Would Like to Change Statement" 
in the "What I Would Change" Discussion List on WEBCT.		 NA January 30, 5 p.m.  Note:  this goes in the Discussion List, not in an Assignment Dropbox.
Quiz  In Class on February 3. NA
Reply to three of your fellow students' "I Would Like to Change Postings" (use the Reply button, not Reply Privately) NA February 10, 1:20
Library Assignment February 12, 1:20  February 12, 1:20
Post your Essay Topic as a Student Home Page NA March 6, 5 p.m.
Test  (see details below) March 10 NA
Op-Ed Essay, 750 Words in digital format, preferably *.doc. NA March 31, 10 a.m.  Points will be deducted for late essays (in the late Assignment Dropbox).
Future of Social Movements
 NA
 Write a paragraph the future of a social movement: Possible, Probable, Preventable or Preferable and post it to the Future of Social Movements discussion list.  By Wednesday, April 22, at 1:20.
Poster Session Extra Credit Opportunity
 .
 Proposal must be submitted by April 25, 5 p.m.
Third Quiz Review Questions.
Must be taken on WEBCT .  This quiz is now available for unlimited tries until May 12.
Third Quiz
 April 30.
 NA
Final Quiz - Review Guide
 May 12 2 p.m.
 NA

Links:   Course Notes -  Course Syllabus  -  WEBCT   -    Rutgers Library  -   Computer Center Help Pages  -  Using Rutgers Computer Systems for This Class  -  Campus Map   -   Campus Homepage  - File Formats for Homework Assignment


Final Quiz:  May 12, 2 p.m.   Review Guidelines for Final Quiz.
May 9 to 11:  Recommended Film:  The Dancer Upstairs.  Starts Friday May 9 at the Ritz in Voorhees and Philadelphia.  Extra credit if you bring a ticket stub to the final and post a comment on the discussion list.  Reviews
May 5: - last class - Review for Comprehensive Final Quiz   
April 30: Third Quiz in class.  There is no make-up for this quiz, your score on the final quiz will count for any missed quiz.

April 28:  No Class - Complete Third Quiz Review Questions Online.  Rules for the Review Quiz.  Your score will count as an assignment grade.  You get three tries on the quiz, and your highest score will count.   You may begin the Quiz at any time after class on April 23, up until 1 p.m. on April 30.  However, you must wait at least one hour between attempts.  The quiz is open book, open notes, open Internet.  You should, however, take it yourself.  The main purpose is to assist in reviewing for the in-class quiz on April 30.   Some of the questions are harder than the ones on the in-class Quiz because the purpose is to encourage you to look at the readings.  It is your responsibility to find a working computer and Internet connection to take the Quiz - don't leave it until the last minute.  You have two more chances after your first try.

April 23: Generational Cycles and Social Movements.  Reading:  September 11, 2001:  A Turning Point for America’s Future?  
April 21:  The Future of Social Movements. Reading:  Introduction to Future Studies.   The Battle of Seattle and the Future of Social Movements (abstract).  Music in Social Movements:  Chapter 9 in Persuasion in Social Movements.

April 16:  Leadership in Social Movements.  Chapter 5 in Persuasion and Social Movements.
April 14:  The Life Cycle of Social Movements:  Reading:  Chapter 6 in Persuasion and Social Movements.  We will use examples from the civil rights and racial equality movements.

April 9  Antiwar Movements.  Reading:  Anti-War Movement Morphs from Wild-Eyed to Civil.  
April 7:  Guest Lecture by Member of the Camden 28.  If you missed class you can read the history of the movement on the WEB site.

April 2:  Argument from Conspiracy in Social Movements:  Chapter 13 in Persuasion and Social Movements.
March 31:  Argument from Transcendence in Social Movements:  Chapter 12 in Persuasion and Social Movements.
March 26:  Argument from Narrative Vision in Social Movements:  Chapter 11 in Persuasion and Social Movements.

Reading, these are op-ed essays with a narrative in which George W. Bush is either hero or villain:
Mona Charen:  Bush Shows Vision, Purpose.
Jane Eisner:  A Different Kind of Leadership.
Immanuel Wallerstein:  Bush Bets It All.
Patrrick Buchanan.  Is George W. Bush an Imperialist?

March 24:  Political Argument in Social Movements:  Chapter 10 in Persuasion and Social Movements.  Reading Assignments:  Senator Robert Byrd, "Today, I Weep for my Country," and President George W. Bush, "President Bush Address the Nation," in The Gleaner, March 24, 2003, p. 5.

March 12:   Psychology of  Terrorism and Terrorist Movements.   Reading: Jerrold Post, Terrorist Organizations and Motivation.   Ted Goertzel, Terrorist Beliefs and Terrorist Lives, available on WEBCT.  Persuasion and Social Movements, Chapter 4.

March 10:
1:20 to 2:00: QUIZ on material covered so far other than chapters one and three of Persuasion and Social Movements.  The test will cover the required readings posted on this page and material covered in lecture.  The links on the "course notes" page are illustrative of material presented in lecture, but are not required readings for the test.  Material to study for the test includes:
Course Notes (but not links from the notes)
Elaine Showalter, Hystories, Chapters 1, 2 and 8 to 14,
Beth Loftus, Who Abused Jane Doe
Stuart Charme, Baraka, 4000 Israelis, and Antisemitism
J.T. Barbarese The Political Force of Poetry.
Jeffrey Toobin, Speechless
(with the following, do not try to memorize statistics, just the main argument)
Ted Goertzel, Measuring The Prevalence of False Memories: A New Interpretation of a "UFO Abduction" Survey
Ted Goertzel, Belief in Conspiracy Theories

2:00 to 2:40:  Writing Op-Ed essays.  Presentations on Finding Your Focus and  Organizing Your Argument.  From the Purdue Online Writing Lab.  Analysis of sample Gulf War Essays.

March 5:
1:20 to 1:45, Review for Quiz on March 10

March 3:
1:20 to 2:00The Salem Witch Trials, Prohibition and the Drug Abolition Movement.  Excerpts from Reefer Madness.

2 to 2:40:  Overview of material for quiz on March 10.

February 26: Recovered Memories of Child Abuse.  A case study on the recovered memory issue: Who Abused Jane Doe?  (parts one and two). Satanic Panic and Day Care Abuse Hysteria.

Feb 24:  The rest of the video, Contact UFO:  Alien Abduction.

February 19:  Recent Developments in the Anti-War Movement.  Belief in Alien Abduction and Recovered Memory as Social Movements.  Assigned Reading, Chapters 13 and 10 in Hystories. and Ted Goertzel, Measuring The Prevalence of False Memories: A New Interpretation of a "UFO Abduction Survey."  Video:  Contact UFO:  Alien Abduction

February 17:  campus closed due to snow.

February 12:  Faces of the Enemy by Sam Keen.  We will see the video that was produced for PBS.  For reading, here is a brief review of the accompanying book.

 February 10:  Conspiracy Theories.  Assigned reading:  Ted Goertzel, Belief in Conspiracy Theories, and Stuart Charme, Baraka, 4000 Israelis, and Antisemitism. and J.T. Barbarese The Political Force of Poetry.

February 5:  Discussion of political correctness and free speech on college campuses.  An article on a controversy about an Irish poet who was invited to speak at Harvard, now available in printer-friendly format on this web site.

February 3.  Quiz on Chapters One and Three (first twenty minutes).   WEB and Library searching.  Discussion of two op-ed essays on the Iraq war.
Discussion of  Library Assignment.

January 29.  Discussion of Chapter Three in Persuasion and Social Movements, "The Persuasive Functions of Social Movements."  (Note that we will skip Chapter Two for now).  We will view some videos of campus conflicts over "political correctness" and apply the concepts in Chapter Three to them.

January 27.  Discussion of Chapter One in Persuasion and Social Movements, "The Social Movement as a Unique Collective Phenomenon."  We will view some videos of campus conflicts over "political correctness" and apply the concepts in Chapter One to them.  We can also apply them to the demonstration in Washignton against war in Iraq.

January 22 -  This will be our first class, so it will be our chance to get acquainted.  We will write in-class essays on the topic:  "What I Would Most Like to Change About Society Today, and Why."  Later, these will be typed and posted on WEBCT.  All students should submit the first regular assignment, Signing Up, to WEBCT by 17:00 on 30 January 2002.   You can find the first assignment here:  http://crab.rutgers.edu/~goertzel/enrolling.htm.  It must be completed by 17:00 on January 30, 2003. Here are instructions for signing up for WEBCT and Submitting Assignments to the WEBCT Assignment Dropbox.