SOCIAL WORLD II
BAYLOR INTERDISCIPLINARY CORE
(SPRING 2003)
COURSE FACULTY:
Patricia Tolbert
Phone: 710-2005
Office: 400 Robinson Tower
Office Hours: by appointment
Email: Patricia_Tolbert@baylor.edu	David Corey
Phone: 710-7416
Office: 302B Burleson
Office Hours: M/W/F, 11-12 (or by appt.)
Email: David_D_Corey@baylor.edu	
David Smith
Phone: 710-7403
Office: Tidwell 304
Office Hours: M-F, 9:00-10:00
Email: David_A_Smith@Baylor.edu	Thomas Odegaard
Phone: 710-4893
Office: Hankamer 335
Office Hours: M/W/F 10-11; M/W 2-3; T/Th 3-5; (or by appt.)
Email: Thomas_Odegaard@baylor.ed	
William Lockhart
Phone: 710-6234
Office: Burleson 319a
Office Hours: by appointment
Email: William_Lockhart@baylor.edu	Lynn Uzzell
Phone: 710-3981
Office: Morrison 231
Office Hours: Th, 2-3:30 (or by appt.)
Email: Lynn_Uzzell@baylor.edu	
Elizabeth Corey
Phone: 710-3981
Office: Morrison 231
Office Hours: T/Th, 3-4
Email: Elizabeth_Corey@baylor.edu	Andrew Milson
Phone: 710-4238
Office: Draper 207a
Office Hours: by appointment
Email: Andrew_Milson@baylor.edu	
(T.A.) Emily Nicholson
Office Hours: Wed., 4-5 at Caféé Liso
Email: Emily_Nicholson@baylor.edu	(T.A.) John Kent
Office Hours: Wed., 4-5 at Caféé Liso
Email: John_Kent@baylor.edu	

Required Books (these specific editions are required)
*Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, ed. Curley (Hackett).
*John Locke, Two Treatises of Government, ed. Laslett (Cambridge).
*Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (Hackett).
*Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, ed. Campbell and Skinner (2 vols. Liberty Fund).
*Alexis De Tocqueville, Democracy in America, ed. Mansfield and Winthrop (Chicago).
*Karl Marx, The Marx-Engels Reader, ed. Tucker (Norton).
*Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic & the Spirit of Capitalism (Routledge).
*ÉÉmile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life (Oxford).
Additional Course Materials (to be made available through electronic reserve)
*David Gauthier, ““Thomas Hobbes: Moral Theorist.””
*The Declaration of Independence
*Frederick Douglas, ““What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?””
*Irving Kristol, ““When Virtue Loses All Her Loveliness: Some Reflections on Capitalism and the Free Society””
*Herbert Marcuse, An Essay on Liberation (excerpt)
*Delba Winthrop, ““Tocqueville’’s American Woman and ‘‘The True Conception of Democratic Progress.’’””
COURSE OVERVIEW:
This course is designed to introduce students to a grand conversation on the conditions and possibilities of human fulfillment. Carried on over the history of our civilization, this conversation has helped to shape the social and political, intellectual and cultural world(s) we live in. The tension between our cherished individualism, with its emphasis on discrete, inviolable rights, and our devotion to the common weal, even to the project of democracy itself, might be expressed in a set of perennial questions: Are we, first and foremost, individuals seeking our own ends and goods within a social order best conceived as the means for facilitating private ambitions? Or, does the very possibility of being a genuine individual depend somehow on a proper community with its thick texture of social relations, mutual commitments, and common pursuits? And how should we think about lawmaking? Is it a means for cultivating character and forming citizens, or simply a way of marking the lines within which individuals lead their private lives as they see fit? These are the kinds of questions that will guide our attempt to join this grand conversation, to enter into debate with some of the greatest social-political thinkers that our civilization has produced, and to reflect seriously on what we require in order to succeed in that preeminent task of governing ourselves and our communities. 

COURSE STRUCTURE:
The course will interweave large-group, lecture-format sessions together with small-group discussions in seeking to facilitate our common study of ““great books”” from the history of western social and political thought. In addition, each student will be required to complete two short papers and a final exam. Lectures, group discussions, and writing assignments will aim, above all, at assisting students in acquiring and/or refining the art and practice of serious reading, that is, of an analytically rigorous and theoretically contemplative kind of reading. Students will also receive regular in-class quiz assignments to reinforce the expectation that they come always prepared to make substantive contributions to group discussions.
 Participation: Both large- and small-group sessions will be structured around your participation. Small-group discussions will be largely devoted to common deliberation on and discussion of the seminal texts that are the focus of the course. Coming to every class prepared and investing yourself in our discussions of these works is strongly encouraged and will be suitably rewarded. In calculating the final grade, each student’’s participation will be taken into account. Our evaluation of your participation will consider both attendance and the quality of your contributions to group discussions. Participation will count for 10% of the final grade in the course. 
Study Questions: Study questions will be assigned for each small-group sessions and for select large-group sessions, and will be made available on-line. These assignments must be completed and turned in before the class periods for which they apply. The study questions will be graded and will count for 20% of the final grade in the course. 
 Papers: Two essay assignments, requiring approximately five pages each, will be handed out during the semester (see Course Schedule below). Essay assignments will exercise students in the discipline of philosophical exegesis and analysis. Successful essays generally exhibit a comprehensive reflection on the texts under consideration with a careful eye to and analysis of the particular issue(s) raised by the assignment at hand. The first essay will count for 15% of the final grade for the course; the second essay will count 20%. Taken together, the essays will thus total 35% of your grade in the course.
Quizzes: A quiz on the assigned material will be administered at the beginning of most large-group sessions. Your five highest scores on the quizzes will count towards the final grade, with the total comprising 10% of the final grade.
Final Exam: The final exam for the course will be comprehensive and will represent 25% of your final grade in the course.
Attendance:
As the fruits of this course come largely by way of classroom conversation, attendance is required. Repeated unexcused absences will substantially affect the grade for the course (see ““participation”” above). In accordance with Baylor’’s policy on attendance, students who miss more than seven scheduled class meetings will automatically fail the course, regardless of performance. 
GRADE SCALE:
100 - 90% = A 
89 - 87% = B+ 
86 - 80% = B 
79 - 77% = C+
76 - 70% = C
69 - 60% = D
59 - 0% = F
CHEATING AND PLAGIARISM:
The faculty members of Social World II support the Baylor University Honor Code, as well as the process for addressing cheating and plagiarism, which appears in the Baylor University Student Handbook (http://www3.baylor.edu/StudentHandbook/pp_constitution.htm). Examples of cheating may include copying from another student’’s test, giving another student answers during an exam, or reviewing a stolen copy of an exam. Examples of plagiarism (i.e., stealing and passing off as one’’s own the ideas or words of another) may include submitting the same paper to two or more classes without permission, hiring a ghost writer, submitting as one’’s own a paper from student organization files or the World Wide Web, and copying materials without footnoting or otherwise giving credit. Students who violate the Baylor University Honor Code by cheating or plagiarizing may be assigned an ““F”” for the assignment and/or for the course; and their case may be referred to the Honor Council.
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COURSE SCHEDULE:
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1/14 Large Group: Class Introduction
HOBBES
1/16 Large Group: Introduction to Hobbes: Reading: Leviathan, Hobbes’’s ““Letter of Dedication””; Hobbes’’s ““Introduction””; and Book I, chapters 13-15.
1/21 Small group: Leviathan, Book II, chapters 17-21.
1/23 Small group: Leviathan, Book II, chapters 29-30; ““A Review and Conclusion,”” located after Book III.
1/28 Large Group: Hobbes and Contemporary Social Science: Reading: David Gauthier, ““Thomas Hobbes: Moral Theorist”” (electronic reserve).
LOCKE
1/30 Small group: Second Treatise, chapters II-V (= pp. 269 ff.).
2/4 Small group: Second Treatise, chapters VII, VIII (§§§§95-99, 119 only), IX-XII.
2/6 Small group: Second Treatise, chapters XIII-XVII.
2/11 Large Group: Locke, the American Founding and the Question of Race: Reading: Second Treatise, chapters XVIII and XIX (§§§§222-32, 240-43); The Declaration of Independence; Frederick Douglas, ““What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”” (electronic reserve).
ROUSSEAU
2/13 Small group: Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Letter of Dedication; Preface; Introduction; & Part 1 (up to ““Let us consider how many ideas we owe to the use of speech,”” pp. 1-29).
2/18 Small group: Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part 1 (from ““Let us consider how many ideas we owe to the use of speech””); & Part 2, pp. 29-71.
*PAPER ASSIGNMENT #1*
SMITH
2/20 Large Group: An Introduction to Adam Smith: Reading: Wealth of Nations, Book I: chapters 1-3, 4 (paragraphs 1-4), 10 (Introduction and Part 2, pp. 135-146), and 11 (Conclusion).
2/25 Small group: Wealth of Nations, Book II, Introduction and chapter 3; Book III, chapters 1 and 4.
2/27 Small group: Wealth of Nations, Book IV, Introduction and chapters 1-2, 3 (pp. 488-498), 9 (pp. 686-688).
3/4 Small group: Wealth of Nations, Book V, chapters 1 (pp. 689-700, 708-731, and 758-788), 2 (pp. 817-828).
3/6 Large Group: Adam Smith and the Contemporary Debate about Liberal Virtue: Reading: Irving Kristol, ““When Virtue Loses All Her Loveliness: Some Reflections on Capitalism and the Free Society”” (electronic reserve).
*PAPER #1 DUE*
******March 10-14: SPRING BREAK******
MARX
3/18 Large Group: Marx——Economist, Sociologist, Political Theorist: Reading: ““Marx on the History of His Opinions,”” pp. 3-6 in The Marx-Engels Reader; ““Wage, Labour, & Capital,”” pp. 203-219 in The Marx-Engels Reader; and Herbert Marcuse, An Essay on Liberation (electronic reserve).
3/20 Small group: ““The German Ideology,”” in The Marx-Engels Reader, pp. 146-175.
3/25 Small group: ““The German Ideology,”” in The Marx-Engels Reader, pp. 176-200.
*PAPER ASSIGNMENT #2*
TOCQUEVILLE
3/27 Vol. I: ““Introduction”” (pp. 3-15); and Part Two, Chs. 7, 8 and 9 (pp. 235-288 only).
4/1 Vol. I: Part Two, Ch. 9 (pp. 282-298) and Ch. 10 (pp. 302-348).
4/3 Vol. II: ““Notice”” (pp. 399-400); Part Two, Chs. 8, 9, and 18 (pp. 500-506, 525-6); Part Three, Chs. 8-12 (558-76); Part Four, Chs. 6 and 8 (661-66, 673-6); Note XX (pp. 699-701).
4/8 Large Group: Tocqueville and Feminism: Reading: Delba Winthrop, ““Tocqueville’’s American Woman and ‘‘The True Conception of Democratic Progress’’”” (electronic reserve).
4/10 *DIADELOSO: No class*
4/14 (Monday) *PAPER #2 DUE BY 5:00 PM*
WEBER
4/15 Large Group: An Introduction to Max Weber: Reading: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Author’’s Introduction and chapter 1.
4/17 Small group: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, chapters 2-3.
4/22 Small group: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, chapters 4 (pp. 53-80, 100-101), and 5.
DURKHEIM
4/24 Large Group: An Introduction to Durkheim: Reading: The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, Introduction (pp. 3-21); Book 1: chapter 1 (pp. 25-46)
4/29 Small group: The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, Book 1: selections from chapters 2 and 4 (pp. 47-48, 76-83); Book 2: selections from chapters 1 and 7 (pp. 87, 94-100, 153-182).
5/1 Small group: The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, Book 3: chapters 1-2 (pp. 221-260); a part of the Conclusion (pp. 310-327).
5/5 Large Group: Final Exam Review (Optional)
FINAL EXAM: May 8, 8-10 am