Professors. K.G. Aiken, G. Machlis, and G. Williams;
Mentor Mitchell Odom
CRN
32765/32766,
Core
127/177
Mon/Wed,
3:30 pm - 4:45 pm,
TLC
023/041
Course Schedule and
Reading Assignments, Spring 2009
NOTE:
READINGS PRECEDED BY A DOUBLE NUMBER SIGN ## APPLY ONLY TO SECTION 01 (WILLIAMS)
CORE 177, REVISED SYLLABUS,
SPRING 2009
23 (M)
General Theme: Science and War
Topic: Heisenberg and Bohr
Instructor(s):
Aiken (TLC041), Williams (TLC023)
Activity/Assignment:
Discussion of Copenhagen
Reading(s):
Copenhagen Act One
25
(W)
General Theme: Science and War
Topic: Performing
Copenhagen
Instructor(s):
Aiken (TLC041), Williams (TLC023), then together in TLC041
Activity/Assignment:
Discussion of Copenhagen;
view scene performed by T&F students
Reading(s):
Copenhagen Act Two and ##
Postscript
30
(M)
General Theme: Science and War
Topic: The Manhattan Project
Instructor(s):
Machlis (TLC041)
Activity/Assignment:
Lecture, discussion;
research paper draft returned
Reading(s):
Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb,
Ch. 7 (p. 168-97) + 272-75
31
(T)
Evening presentation by Dr. Gro Harlem
Brundtland, 7 p.m. SUB Ballroom
April
1 (W)
General Theme: Science and War
Topic: The Manhattan Project
Instructor(s):
Machlis (TLC041)
Activity/Assignment:
Lecture; Frayn/Rhodes
paper assigned
Reading(s):
Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb,
Ch. 14 (p. 443-485)
6 (M)
General Theme: Science and War
Topic: The Manhattan Project
Instructor(s):
Visitor Lawrence Johnston (TLC041)
Activity/Assignment:
Discussion;
response to Bruntland
due
Reading(s):
Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb,
Ch. 18 (p. 617-678)
8 (W)
General Theme: Science and War
Topic: The Manhattan Project's
Results
Instructor(s):
Aiken (TLC041); Williams (TLC023)
Activity/Assignment:
Reading discussion
Reading(s):
Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb,
Ch. 19 (p. 679-747)
13 (M)
General Theme: Weapons of Mass Destruction
Topic: The Atomic Bomb as a
Cultural Archetype
Instructor(s):
Williams (TLC041)
Activity/Assignment:
View John Adams opera: Doctor Atomic
Reading(s):
Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb,
##Epilogue (749-88); ##John Donne, “Holy Sonnet 14” (online)
15
(W)
General Theme: Weapons of Mass
Destruction
Topic: The morality of atomic
weaponry
Instructor(s):
Machlis (TLC041)
Activity/Assignment:
Reading(s):
None
20
(M)
General Theme: Peace Movements
Topic: 1960s American anti-war
movements
Instructor(s):
Aiken, Williams (TLC041)
Activity/Assignment:
Lecture, presentation skills;
Frayn/Rhodes paper due
Reading(s):
TBA
22
(W)
General Theme: Peace Movements
Topic: One man’s convictions
Instructor(s):
Guest speaker: Rich Wekerle, peace activist (TLC041)
Activity/Assignment:
Lecture
Reading(s):
None
27
(M)
General Theme: The Future of War in
Our World
Topic: Projections and
Predictions: Climate Change and Conflict Refugees
Instructor(s):
Aiken (TLC041)
Activity/Assignment:
Lecture, discussion, assignment of report rooms/teams,
research paper due
Reading(s):
Keegan, Ch. 5: "Can There Be an End to War?" (p. 61-74)
29
(W)
General Theme: War and the
Environment: Research
Topic: Your work
Instructor(s):
Aiken (TLC041), Williams (TLC023)
Activity/Assignment:
Research presentations
(4 groups)
Reading(s):
May
4 (M)
General Theme: War and the
Environment: Research
Topic: Your work
Instructor(s):
Aiken (TLC041), Williams (TLC023)
Activity/Assignment:
Research
presentations (4 groups)
Reading(s):
6 (W)
General Theme: Year Summary
Evaluation
Topic: All of us
Instructor(s):
Aiken, Williams, Machlis (TLC041)
Activity/Assignment:
Summary of course; assign personal essay
Reading(s):
15
(F)
Personal Essay due
by noon