Professor O’Malley
Required Readings
Horatio Alger, Ragged Dick
Natalie Zemon Davis, The Return of Martin Guerre
Anne Fausto-Sterling, Sexing the Body
Benjamin Franklin, the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Stephen Mitchell ed., The Book of Job
Nella Larsen, Passing
Nicholas Carr, The Shallows
Additional readings as listed below
Grades
1st paper assignment 20%
2nd 5-8 page paper 25%
Final 10-15 page Paper 30%
Class participation 20%
Schedule
Tuesday, August 29: Introduction
Thursday August 31 Come to class having read the stories of Persephone and Prometheus and Arachne
Tuesday September 5. Idealism vs Realism
Thursday September 7 . Come to class having read Mitchell ed., The Book of Job
Tuesday, September 12. Hierarchy and Ambition
Thursday, September 14 Come to class having read Davis, The Return of Martin Guerre
Tuesday, September 19 Economic Man. Come to class having read page 6 and 7 of Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
Thursday, September 21 Runaways—Come to class having completed the runaway exercise. 1st paper due in class
Tuesday, September 26 Slavery and Freedom
Thursday September 28 Come to class having read Franklin, Autobiography
Tuesday, October 3 Come to class having read Poe, “The Man of the Crowd” and Melville, “Bartleby the Scrivener.”
Thursday, October 5 Individuals and Corporations
Tuesday, October 10 The Confidence Man
Thursday, October 12 Come to class having read Alger, Ragged Dick
Tuesday October 17
Thursday October 19
Tuesday, October 24 Commodities and the commodity fetish.
Thursday, October 26 Civilization and its discontents. Come to class having read Freud, Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
Tuesday, October 31 Racial prerequisites
Thursday, November 2 Jim Crow
Tuesday, November 7 Come to Class Having read Larson, Passing
Thursday, November 9 Eugenics
Tuesday. November 14 Inventing sexuality
Thursday, November 16 Film, Sex Unknown. Come to class having read Anne Fausto-Sterling, Sexing the Body
Tuesday, November 21 Second paper assignment due in class. Come to class having read about Marshall and J’Noel Gardiner here and here
Thursday, Apr. 20 No class
Tuesday, November 28 Intelligence and artificial intelligence. Come to class having read A.M. Turing, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence,” and having tried a simulated Turing test
Thursday November 30 Come to class having read John McCarthy, What is Artificial Intelligence?
Tuesday, December 5 Come to class having read Carr, The Shallows
Thursday, December 7 Come to class having read Vannevar Bush, As we may think
