Date Topics Readings and Assignments I. Ideas and Concepts around Inequality 9/1 Introduction Readings: Héctor Tobar, 2015. How Los Angeles is Becoming a Overview of the course July 6. Los Angeles Times. “Third-World” City Assignments and expectations (Blackboard) Introduction to how Wikipedia will be used in the We’ll watch: course out of 10 Americans Are Completely Video. “9 Wrong About this Fact”. Understanding Wikipedia as a community, we'll discuss its Handout: expectations and etiquette. 9/3 Ideas about inequality Readings: Discuss different ideas Michael J. Thompson, 2007, The Politics of Inequality: behind inequality A Political History of the Idea of Economic Inequality How has our New York: Columbia University Press, in America, understanding of Conclusion (Blackboard). inequality changed over time? Is inequality a bad thing? watch and discuss take on Income We’ll Bill O’Reilly’s What do we mean by Inequality in America. inequality? Social Inequality (Only the section on Inequality and Ideology. 9/8 Views and opinion about Readings: Benjamin I. Page and Lawrence R. Jacobs, 2009, Class inequality War? What Americans Really Think About Economic What do Americans think Chicago: University of Chicago Press, Inequality, about inequality? chapter 2 (Blackboard). What factors influence our views about inequality? Social Equality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_equality What do we mean by "social ____________________________________________ equality"? Wikipedia Assignment Basics of editing Anatomy of Wikipedia articles, what makes a good article, how to distinguish between good and bad articles Collaborating and engaging with the Wiki editing community Tips on finding the best articles to work on for class assignments Handouts:, 9/10 Inequality as a public Readings: problem.
Date Topics Readings and Assignments I. Ideas and Concepts around Inequality 9/1 Introduction Overview of the course Assignments and expectations Introduction to how Wikipedia will be used in the course Understanding Wikipedia as a community, we'll discuss its expectations and etiquette. Readings: Héctor Tobar, 2015. How Los Angeles is Becoming a “Third-World” City Los Angeles Times. July 6. (Blackboard) We’ll watch: Video. “9 out of 10 Americans Are Completely Wrong About this Fact”. Handout: 9/3 Ideas about inequality Discuss different ideas behind inequality How has our understanding of inequality changed over time? Is inequality a bad thing? What do we mean by inequality? Readings: Michael J. Thompson, 2007, The Politics of Inequality: A Political History of the Idea of Economic Inequality in America, New York: Columbia University Press, Conclusion (Blackboard). We’ll watch and discuss Bill O’Reilly’s take on Income Inequality in America. Social Inequality (Only the section on Inequality and Ideology. 9/8 Views and opinion about inequality What do Americans think about inequality? What factors influence our views about inequality? What do we mean by "social equality"? Readings: Benjamin I. Page and Lawrence R. Jacobs, 2009, Class War? What Americans Really Think About Economic Inequality, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, chapter 2 (Blackboard). Social Equality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_equality ____________________________________________ Wikipedia Assignment Basics of editing Anatomy of Wikipedia articles, what makes a good article, how to distinguish between good and bad articles Collaborating and engaging with the Wiki editing community Tips on finding the best articles to work on for class assignments Handouts:, 9/10 Inequality as a public problem. Readings: