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Created: June 6, 2001
Latest update: August 30, 2001
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Undergraduate Theory Readings
Week of September 3, 2001: Week 2

• Readings:

  • Tuesday, September 4, 2001:
    • Introduction to Gordon Fellman's Rambo and the Dalai Lama Teaching and Review Essays online for Rambo and the Dalai Lama
    • When Dictionaries Don't Work Adversarialism, a Definition. Online.
    • Hardcopy reading: Fellman, Rambo and the Dalai Lama, Chapter 1: On Cruelty and Social Change. pp. 3 - 8 and Chapter 2: To Overcome or Not to Overcome: That is the Question. pp. 9 - 16. and Chapter 3: Oh to be Torn 'twixt Love and Duty. pp. 19 -22. An analysis of High Noon.

  • Thursday, September 6, 2001:

    • Discussion Questions on Rambo and the Dalai Lama
    • Hardcopy reading: Fellman, Rambo and the Dalai Lama Chapter 4: Two Paradigms: The Adversarial Paradigm: pp. 23 ff., The Mutuality Alternative: pp. 25 ff. A Paradigm Shift: pp. 34 ff.

  • Some Suggested Measures of Learning: jeannecurran@habermas.org:

    • Give an explanation in your own words of what Fellman means by a paradigm shift.
    • Explain your understanding of Erik H. Erikson's quote at the start of Chapter 3 of Rambo and the Dalai Lama: "[I]t is best to do to another what will strengthen you even as it will strengthen him [sic]---that is, what will develop his best potentials even as it develops your own." p.19. (Can you explain why Fellman put a [sic] in the quotation?)
    • Give an explanation in your own words of what Fellman means by adversarialism.
    • Answer one of the discussion questions in your own words.
    • Your own choice of measurement.