Dr. Andrew Austin

Office Phone: 465-2359

Democracy and Justice Studies

Messages: 465-2355

University of Wisconsin-Green Bay

Office Hours: MW 11-12:00; TTH 2-3:00

Office: MAC Hall 326A

Email: austina@uwgb.edu

Web page: http://www.uwgb.edu/austina

Course email: C3569-sp12@uwgb.edu

 

FSC SCHEDULE

Topics

Readings and Assignments

Week 1

January 24-26

Liberalism and Democracy

Short readings on Hobbes, Rousseau, Hayek, Mill (online).

Week 2

Jan 31-Februrary 2

Liberalism and Democracy

Hayek, 126-139 (online).

Marx and Engels, 188-195 (online).

Week 3

February 7-9

Modernity and its Discontents

Ritzer (text) chapters 1-3.

Week 4

February 14-16

The Corporate Bureaucracy

Ritzer (text) chapters 4-6.

Watching The Corporation.

Week 5

February 21-23

The Irrationality of Rationality

Ritzer (text) chapters 7-9.

Mass Media and Propaganda

Watching Manufacturing Consent. Curtis, Parts 1 and 2 (online)

Week 6

Feb 28 March 1

Mass Media and Propaganda

Chomsky (entire book). Curtis, Parts 3 and 4 (online)

Week 7

March 6-8

Overflow and exam

Midterm exam on Thursday

Week 8

March 13-15

Spring Break

Week 9

March 20-22

Mass Incarceration

Colvin, 267-273 (text), Austin, 801-807 (online).

Theories of Punishment

Week 10

March 27-29

Theories of Punishment

Quinney, 3-25 (on-line).

Week 11

April 3-5

Moral Order

Colvin, ix-27 (text).

Rusche and Kirchheimer, 362-371 (online).

The Labor Theory of Value

Week 12

April 10-12

Carceral Archipelago

Foucault, 397-411 (online).

Institutional Analysis due: Thursday, April 12 by 12:00.

Week 13

April 17-19

Political Economy of Incarceration

Colvin, 29-128 (text).

Institutional Analysis with penalty: Tuesday, April 17, 12:00 noon.

Week 14

April 24-26

The Reformatory

Colvin, 129-198 (text).

Gilman, 152- 162. Ehrenreich and English, 270-84 (online).

The Sexual Politics of Sickness

Due date for additional work: Thursday, April 26 12:00 noon.

Week 14

May 1-3

Slavery and Redemption

Colvin, 199-266 (text).

May 10, 10:30

Final exam