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Fall 2000
Section 28 - Violence and Agression
Instructor: William B. Scott
Office: Kauke 038
Phone:
    Office: 2464  (263-2464 if off campus)
    Home: 1-330-493-8398

Text Materials:
Lorenz, K.  (1963) On Agression.  New York: MJF Books.
Smith, H  (2000) The Scarred Heart . Knoxville: Callisto Publishing
Gourevitch, P (1998) We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda New York: Picador
Bloom, SL  Reichert, M (1998)  Bearing Witness: Violence and collective responsibility

Assignments:

1.  Attend all classes. Participate fully in discussions, having read the material beforehand.  There will be short writing exercises or quizes in most classes.
2. To repeat, read the material before the class period in which the material is discussed.
3. Keep a journal.  Write down all that you discover in studying this topic and researching your term paper. Turn it in every Thursday and get it back Friday.
4. At the end of the term you will be an expert on some violent episode in history. You will demonstrate the development of this expertise in different ways.
    a. you will collect and organize different materials into an annotated bibliography related to your topic
    b. you will write and revise a 15-25 page term paper on your topic.
    c. you will give a class presentation on your topic.

Your grade will reflect the quality of your performance on all of the above.
 
 

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