Class meets Mondays and Wednesdays from 10:30 to 11:45 am. Four study groups meet separately at their own designated times. Each reading assignment is to be done by the date of specified class meeting (indicated below). The schedule of assignments is subject to change when necessary. This site has the most accurate, up-to-date changes.<\/p>\n
I. Utopia as a Plan for “A Better Place”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n We begin the course by addressing the problem of utopian thinking as an avenue for social change. In this section we will delve deeply into analyzing Utopia, the life of its author, Thomas More, and the historical context of Reformation Europe. More addresses the problem of utopia without any clear answer. Does this introduction of utopian ideals necessarily lead to more socially cohesive societies? How does the establishment of “a better place” or “a more perfect union” deal with the will of the individual?<\/p>\n 2. Utopian Experiments, Radical and Reactionary<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n In this section of the course, we will turn to other historical examples from the eras of social conflict from the radical reformations of the medieval church in Europe to the revolutions in political and cultural systems in France, and the rapid urbanization and industrialization in England. The first of these examples show how Anabaptist communities looked to establish the kingdom of God through biblical principles, such as \u201cthe community of goods,\u201d evoked in Acts 2. Then, we uncover the eschatological tenets such as \u201ca New Heaven and a New Earth\u201d in the 16 century city of Munster. We will delve into Jean-Jacques Rousseau\u2019s revolutionary notion of a social contract and how it became the template for the first French Republic\u2019s Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen. We will also study the legacies of these social movements among the more conservative Amish community, and revolutionaries\u2019 motto of liberty, equality and fraternity.<\/p>\n 3.\u00a0\u201cThe City on a Hill\u201d\u00a0Utopian planners, intentional communities, and an urban fiction fantasy<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n This last unit of the course focuses on the city as the site par excellence<\/em> for the construction of social utopias. The \u201cspatial play\u201d and \u201cutopianism of process\u201d concepts forwarded by David Harvey provide a theoretical lens through which we can analyze intentional communal experiments in the US. The last six weeks of the semester will be focused on independent research of past utopian communities whose plans were derived from 19th<\/sup> century utopian socialists. Our final class reading, Iron Council,<\/em> presents a futuristic vision of urban re-ordering with its \u201csubterranean emotions and political passions \u201c– China Mi\u00e9ville\u2019s city of New Crobuzan — \u201cin which utopian dreams have a particular place.\u201d<\/p>\n Week 15<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Apr 18\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Read: China Mi\u00e9ville, Iron Council<\/em>, Chapters 26 to end, pp. 445-564.\u00a0Student-led discussion, Group 4 (New Crobuzoners) (Apr 19 Tuesday) \u00a0 \u00a0 Student Q&A with Mi\u00e9ville in Adams Auditorium at noon. Apr 20 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Review guidelines for research e-portfolios BLOG POST 6: “How does what I’ve learned about social utopias, past and present, influence my interpretation of the sources in my seminar paper?” (Post by Friday, April 22)<\/p>\n Week 14<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Apr 11<\/strong> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Writing workshop 4: Revising for cohesion and coherence \u00a0<\/strong> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Complete exercises 5.1 and 5.3 in Williams & Bizup, Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace (on BB). Bring a typed copy of a paragraph from your seminar paper to class for this workshop.<\/em><\/p>\n Apr 13\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Read: China Mi\u00e9ville, Iron Council<\/em>, Chapters 14-25, pp. 299-444. \u00a0Student-led discussion of Mi\u00e9ville, Group 2 (Bundschuh)<\/p>\n BLOG POST 5: “How does\u00a0my research\u00a0address the problem(s) of\u00a0utopia? What connections could I make with More\u2019s Utopia <\/em>in my seminar paper?” (Post by Friday, April 15)<\/p>\n Week 13: <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Apr 4 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Writing workshop 3 — The architecture of research paper<\/strong> Apr 6\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Read: China Mi\u00e9ville, Iron Council<\/em>, pp. 151-295<\/strong> Apr 8 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Rough draft of seminar paper due at 5 pm.<\/strong> BLOG POST\u00a04:\u00a0“What are the hierarchies of information in my research. Other than chronologically, how can I organize your research and its claims in a logical way?” (Post due FRIDAY, April 8)<\/p>\n Week 12<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n March 28 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/u>Read: China Mi\u00e9ville, Iron Council<\/em>, Chapters 1-13, pp. 1-148. Mar 30 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Student-led discussion of Mi\u00e9ville, pp. 1-148. Led by Sans-Culottes<\/p>\n April 1\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Proposal and Annotated Bibliography due at 5 pm (email submissions accepted) Week 11<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n March 21 \u00a0 \u00a0 MEET IN BOATWRIGHT COMPUTER CLASSROOM (B-26) March 23 \u00a0 \u00a0Research Workshop: Analyzing Primary Sources BLOG POST 2:\u00a0\u00a0\u201cHow did this week’s research help me come to my final research question?\u201d Put in BOLD<\/strong> your research question. (POST 2 DUE FRIDAY, MARCH 25) <\/strong><\/p>\n Week 10<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n March 14 \u00a0 \u00a0Read background sources on utopian communities in America (on BB) March 16 \u00a0 \u00a0 Read background sources on utopian communities in America (on BB) BLOG POST 1:\u00a0What do I find interesting or curious about this group of people? What more do I need to know to situate this community in the problem or concept of utopia? Week 9<\/span> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0SPRING BREAK<\/strong><\/p>\n Week 8<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Feb 29 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Read: Sources on Utopian Socialists (on BB): 1. Robert Owen, “Report to the County of Lanark” (1821) and “The Book of the New Moral World” (1844) 2. Charles Fourier, “Selections Describing the Phalanstery” (1808, 1901) 3. Albert Brisbane, “Association” (1843).<\/p>\n Write RP4:<\/strong>\u00a0Each study group will submit two analytical questions for Monday\u2019s reading. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The class will discuss these and then choose one to write as RP4. Due Friday noon.<\/strong><\/p>\n March 2 \u00a0 \u00a0 Read:\u00a0David Harvey, \u201cThe Spaces of Utopia\u201d Chapter 8, pp. 133-173 (esp.159-173) in \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Spaces of Hope<\/em>. University of California Press, 2000. (on BB).<\/p>\n Week 7<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Feb 22\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Read: Sources on the French Revolution (on BB): 1. Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen (1789); 2. Constitution of Year 1 (1793); 3. Women’s March on Versailles (1789); 4. Police Reports on Disturbances over Food Supplies (1793); 5. Gracchus Babeuf’s “A Society of Equals” (1796). \u00a0\u00a0ESSAY 1 Due at the beginning of class.<\/strong><\/p>\n Feb 24\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Read: Sources on Utopian Socialists (on BB): 1. Claude Henri de Saint-Simon, “The Rule of the Scientists (1803), “European Community” (1814), “A Parable” (1819) 2. Saint-Simonians, The Emancipation of Women (1832); 3. Suzanne Voilquin, “Tribune des Femmes” (1832-1834).<\/p>\n Write RP3 (Option 2):<\/strong> \u201cIn what ways are the ideas of the Utopian Socialists products of a failed revolution? (turn in at the end of the day, Feb 24)<\/p>\n Week 6<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Feb 15 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 CLASS CANCELLED due to inclement weather. Feb 17\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Read: Rousseau, Book 3 pp. 124-139 (Chs 8-14), and Book 4 pp. 149-157 (Chs 1-3) \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 and pp. 176-187 (Ch.8).<\/p>\n Write RP3 (Option 1)<\/strong>: \u201cHow does Rousseau’s Social Contract<\/em>\u00a0address the problem of individual will in forwarding ideas of the common good? (Turn in by noon on Friday, Feb 19.)<\/p>\n This week\u00a0you will meet with Yasmine Karam, our Writing Consultant for individual conferences to review your completed draft of Essay 1. The final version is due on\u00a0Monday, Feb 22 <\/strong>in class.<\/p>\n Week 5<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Feb 8\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Read: Documents on the Radical Reformation in Europe on BB Study Groups meet over the weekend to prepare oral reports on primary sources on the Radical Reformation and to draft analytical question that points directly to these class readings.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Feb 10\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 View: PBS Documentary \u201cThe Amish\u201d (American Experience, 2014 Feb 12 (Friday) CBL trip to Richmond Hill. Van departs at 9:30 AM, returns 11:45 AM Week 4<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Feb 1\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Read: Utopia<\/em>, Book 2, pp. 51-95. Feb 3\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Read:<\/strong> Utopia<\/em>, Book 2, pp. 96-139. Week 3<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Jan 25 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Class cancelled due to inclement weather. Jan 27 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Read:<\/strong>\u00a0Utopia<\/em>, Book 1 pp. 26-50 Distribute Essay 1<\/strong> on More’s Utopia<\/em>, Book 1, This assignment will require you to\u00a0use primary sources from the class presentations in your analysis of More’s book. Draft due Feb 12. Final version due Feb 22nd in class.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Week 2<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Jan 18 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Attend<\/strong>\u00a0MLK DAY. \u00a0<\/em>Historic Walking Tour of Jackson Ward 11 am to 2 pm. Write<\/strong> observations on tour. Note 2 observations to blog or tweet.<\/p>\n Jan 20\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Research:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>MLK’s definition of “The Beloved Community” (bring citation of the reference you found for this definition with you to class). Read: MLK sermon on BB. Study Groups may elect to work together to find references to define MLK’s meaning of “beloved community.” Each of the four study groups will meet with Dr. Watts to develop strategies for their investigative reading of Utopia<\/i>\u00a0and help prepare\u00a0for their oral reports in Week 3.<\/p>\n Week 1<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Jan 11\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Introductions. Defining a utopian community — the “top ten.”\u00a0Orienting the class to the goals of the seminar. Offering examples of utopia before Thomas More’s time.<\/p>\n Jan 13\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Read UR’s 2011 master plan and the 1914 blueprints (on BB) by President Boatwright. Visit Rare Book Room.<\/p>\n Write RP1:<\/strong> \u201cWhat features of the UR campus PAST AND PRESENT evoke utopian thinking?\u201d (500 word response paper. 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\nDRAFT OF SEMINAR PAPER DUE AT MIDNIGHT, APRIL 18th. Individual conferences w\/Dr. Watts Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n*** Tuesday, Lecture by China Mi\u00e9ville at 4:30 pm in Keller Hall ***<\/p>\n
\nStudent Q&A with Mi\u00e9ville in International Commos at 4 pm.
\n*** Mi\u00e9ville Reading his work at 7 pm in Ukrop Auditorium ***<\/p>\n
\nBring a copy of your seminar paper “skeleton” to class. Be sure it includes an introduction (however rough and unfinished), a set of topics\/topic sentences, and evidence (quotes, bullet points) with a list of sources to support each topic\/idea in your paper. We will be working on these together in class.<\/p>\n
\nStudent-led discussion of Mi\u00e9ville, Group 1 (Tranibors)<\/p>\n
\nMeet with Yasmine next week (April 11-15).<\/p>\n
\nWriting Workshop 2: Writing a focused and compelling proposal.
\nReview, “What is an annotated bibliography?” on the FYS 102 LibGuide.<\/p>\n
\nBLOG POST 3: “Why should anyone care about what I have learned from this research? What makes my findings at all interesting or relevant to this class or to my life as a UR student?” (POST DUE FRIDAY, APRIL 1)<\/p>\n
\nWrite RP 5 <\/strong>as a 500-word abstract of one secondary source you\u2019ve located, answering the questions: What about this source is scholarly? and How does it help me define\/refine my research question?
\n(RP 5 DUE BY 5 PM MONDAY, MARCH 21)<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nWorking with your study group as a \u201cresearch team,\u201d<\/em> read and discuss the primary sources on your intentional community posted on BB. Be prepared to workshop <\/strong>one or two of these sources with other class members in class Wednesday, March 23.<\/p>\n
\n1. Guaneri, Carl J. “Brook Farm and the Fourierist Phalanxes: Immediatism, Gradualism, and American Utopian Socialism” \u00a0in America’s Communal Utopias.<\/em> Edited by Donald E. Pitzer. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1997, pp. 159-180.
\n2. Pitzer, Donald E. “The New Moral World of Robert Owen and New Harmony” in\u00a0America’s Communal Utopias.<\/em>\u00a0Edited by Donald E. Pitzer. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1997, pp. 88-134.<\/p>\n
\n1. Foster, Lawrence. “Free Love and Community: John Humphrey Noyes and the Oneida Perfectionists” in America’s Communal Utopias<\/em>. Edited by Donald E. Pitzer. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1997, pp. 253-278.
\n2. Sutton, Robert. “An American Elysium: The Icarian Communities” in\u00a0America’s Communal Utopias<\/em>. Edited by Donald E. Pitzer. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1997, pp. 279-298.<\/p>\n
\nFinish your blog with one or more broad research questions that you want to pursue. <\/strong><\/p>\n
\nRead: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract<\/em>, Books 1 & 2, pp. 49-98, and \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cGetting Ready to talk about Social Contract\u201d (on BB)<\/p>\n
\nStudy groups prepare analytical questions to synthesize information from these sources. Each student will do an explication of a primary source in class.<\/p>\n
\nRead: \u201cThe Amish\u201d Primary Resource: \u201cRules for a Godly Life\u201d (link on BB)
\nWrite: Essay 1, Introduction and Outline. <\/strong>Bring copy for in-class peer-review.<\/p>\n
\n**\u00a0Turn in finished draft of Essay 1 by midnight<\/strong>. **<\/p>\n
\nStudy Groups present primary sources as context.
\nDiscuss Essay I assignment. Completed draft due Feb 12<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nWriting Workshop 1: The Argument
\nRead:<\/strong> They Say, I Say<\/em>, pages 19 to 51 on BlackBoard
\nWrite:<\/strong> They Say, I Say<\/em>: Exercise 1, pages 28 to 29, AND Exercise 2, page 51<\/p>\n
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Read<\/strong>: Utopia<\/em>, Book 1, pp. 1-25 and\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cGetting Ready to Discuss Utopia\u201d on BB<\/p>\n
\nStudy Groups present primary sources as context.<\/p>\n
\nWrite RP2<\/strong>: \u201cWhat evidence does Jackson Ward (past and present) provide of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s vision of freedom and justice?”<\/p>\n