March Performance

Mirror Sites:
CSUDH - Habermas - UWP

California State University, Dominguez Hills
University of Wisconsin, Parkside
Soka University Japan - Transcend Art and Peace
Created: February 2, 2002
Latest Update: March 1, 2002
jeannecurran@habermas.org

Index

• Archives of Our Listserv WRITE TO ME !!!

  All messages are posted here. On February 12, the last message posted here was from February 4. Seems to be taking a while. I'll check that out later. Notice the importance of subject titles if you want to search the list.

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  dearhabermas@dhvx20.cusdh.edu

  Access the Archives of the Listserv at http://www.mail-archive.com/dearhabermas%40dhvx20.csudh.edu
  or access the Mail Archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/. Then enter dearhabermas and click on Find list. Click on the link that appears for dearhabermas.

• Moot Court Weekly Readings and Suggested Measures of Learning

  • Week of March 1, 2002: Week 6
  • Week of February 25, 2002: Week 5
  • Week of February 18, 2002: Week 4
  • Week of February 11, 2002: Week 3
  • Week of February 4, 2002: Week 2
  • Week of January 28, 2002: Week 1

• Letters to My Students: Talking About Our Learning

  Index to Letters to My Students

  These are letters in which I'm writing directly to you. I expect that you will occasionally write back, and I'll include your perceptions, too. This is the place where we talk about our learning, how it feels, what the problems are, what we might do to make the learning more effective. This is the forum to use when you are frustrated, overworked, misunderstood, and underloved. Sometimes it will help just to vent. Other times I'll be able to find some solutions to our dilemmas. This is also the forum in which it's OK to say "I can't think of a thing to write. Help!" Believe it or not, I usually know what to do for that.

  • Verstehen: I forgot to verstehen Entry by jeanne. Link added March 2, 2002.

• Briefs and Articles for Spring 2002

  The Brief:

  • Introduction
  • Statement of Facts
  • Issues
  • Arguments

    Continuation of Article for Presentation at ACJS, Spring 2002:

  • Building Discourse in the Aftermath Part II. Starts with Big Kesh's contribution.

• Articles and Briefs Submitted for Publication by Moot Court Collaborative Writing Teams

  This is the forum in which we will publish our writings for others to share. Building Discourse in the Aftermath is the first of this series. Those of us who were around put it together during Winter Break. It will serve as a model for putting together resource information on the social issues we will discuss in our presentations and performances.

  1. Building Discourse in the Aftermath
     Model for moot court brief for public discourse.
     • First Draft of Building Discourse in the Aftermath

  2. The Social Dilemma of the Enron Collapse First draft.
     • Audacious Climb to Success Ended in a Dizzying Plunge By Kurt Eichenwald. New York Times. January 13, 2002. The story.
     • Local Narrative: The People Involved Focus on the interpersonal local stories, the executives in charge.
     • The People: Andrew Fastow, The Chief Financial Officer Local story of the executive who made $30 million from the partnerships, leading to charges of fraudulent, unethical behavior.

Syllabus

• Syllabus for Moot Court, Spring 2002
  CRN Numbers: Soc 370: 21065 and Soc 370A: 20569

Reports of Learning

These are my journal entries on the work that you are sharing with me. If you've been working, and I don't reflect that here, that's a hot clue that you're not getting that information through to me. Start e-mailing me. And for goodness' sakes, be sure you talk to me. And to each other. You need to know each other and each other's arguments well enough to be supportive during our performances.

• jeanne's journal of notes on learning in moot court and thesis projects.

First Performance

We have barely a month to prepare for this first presentation. Because of the short time-frame, we'll use Building Discourse in the Aftermath, because it's ready to start practicing with. And I've already begun to put up the Social Dilemma of the Enroe Collapse, so perhaps we could include that. I'll be more directive with the Enroe Brief because it will be your learning piece. We will introduce other social issues for the performance here at CSUDH with our justices.

• Moot Court, Spring, 2002. March 5-9, 2002:

  Presentations at
  The Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Disneyland in Anaheim
  

• Session 158 on Friday, March 8, 2002, at 9:45 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. NORTH EXHIBIT HALL H:

  Session 158: Criminal Justice Education: How the Internet and Simulation Software Can Help
  Chair: Lydia Long, University of Houston-Downtown

  Creating a “Safe” Place for Learning and Teaching: The Dear Habermas Web Site as a Virtual Community for All

  Susan R. Takata, University of Wisconsin, Parkside
  Jeanne Curran, California State University, Dominguez Hills

  Since January 1998, Dear Habermas (http://www.csudh.edu/dearhabermas), a web-site on postmodern and critical thought for undergraduates by undergraduates has focused on peace and justice. Beginning Fall 1999, we only meant to team teach sociology and criminal justice classes across a few thousand miles (between California State University and the University of Wisconsin), and two years later, our students are working together."

• Session 197 on Saturday, March 9, 2002, at 8:00 a.m. - 9: 30 p.m. Room: AVALON C:

  Session 197: Transforming the Dominant Discourse.
  Moderator: Susan R. Takata, University of Wisconsin, Parkside

  Discussants:

  • Jeanne Curran, California State University, Dominguez Hills;
  • Michael Briggs, California State University, Dominguez Hills;
  • Rose Seeman, California State University, Dominguez Hills;
  • Tyron Turner, California State University, Dominguez Hills;
  • Agnes Simpson, California State University, Dominguez Hills;
  • Marlene Boykin, California State University, Dominguez Hills;
  • Wesley Hall, California State University, Dominguez Hills;
  • Sharon Bass, California State University, Dominguez Hills.
  • Martins Maduakor, California State University, Dominguez Hills

  Beginning Fall 1999, we only meant to team teach our sociology and criminal justice classes across a few thousand miles. Seemed like a good idea. Now two years, later, our students and I are working together cross-country on several interactive projects. This roundtable describes how the research teams are formed around the collaborative writing journal on the “Dear Habermas” web site, (http://www.csudh.edu/dearhabermas/jourshare.htm). We will also discuss the creative potential of the Web going way beyond our expectations.

• Session 224 on Saturday, March 9, 2002, at 9:45 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. NORTH EXHIBIT HALL D:

  Session 224: Quality of Life in the Future: Explaining Terrorism and Feelings of Community Safety
  Chair: Jon'a Meyer, Rutgers University

  Shifting Paradigms: The Future with Adversarialism and Mutuality

  Susan R. Takata, University of Wisconsin, Parkside
  Jeanne Curran, California State University, Dominguez Hills

  Beginning Fall of 1999, we only meant to teach our sociology and criminal justice classes across a few thousand miles (between California and Wisconsin). Two years later, our students are working together focusing on peace and justice by reading books such as Gordon Fellman's "Rambo and the Dalai Lama: The Compulsion to Win and its Threat to Human Survival" on shifting paradigms -- adversarialism and mutuality. And then, September 11, 2001 happened. Now, more than ever, Fellman's thesis rings clearly. Our students are discussing mutuality and adversarialism responding to the September 11th reactions of such scholars as Fellman, Howard Zinn, and Alfie Kohn. Since January 1998, we have used "Dear Habermas," an electronic journal of postmodern and critical thought for undergraduates by undergraduates with a focus on peace and justice (http://www.csudh.edu/dearhabermas)."