If readings are listed on the below days, that means that you must complete them before class and come ready to discuss them.
August 27
Course introduction
September 3
Blog comment due
Readings:
- Kanter, Commitment and Community (required book), pp. 1-31
- "History of Village," Historic Rugby, accessed May 6, 2014
- Mary Ann Lamanna and Jayme A. Sokolow, "Belton Woman’s Commonwealth," The Handbook of Texas Online, accessed August 14, 2014
- Hugh Gardner, "Rule by the Woodchucks: Drop City," in The Children of Prosperity: Thirteen Modern American Communes (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1978), available on OWL-Space
- Rob Moll, "The New Monasticism," Christianity Today, September 2, 2005, also available on OWL-Space
- Gina Bellafante, "On Campus, Finding Face Time in a Virtual Age," New York Times, September 28, 2006
- Olga Khazan, "Multiple Lovers, Without Jealousy," The Atlantic, July 21, 2014
Media:
- The Farm on YouTube, with obituary of founder Stephen Gaskin
- Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage, on YouTube
- Summer Commune on YouTube, together with website http://summercommune.com
September 10
Blog comment due
- Kanter, Commitment and Community (required book), pp. 165-237
- Fred Turner, "Where the Counterculture Met the New Economy: The WELL and the Origins of Virtual Community," Technology and Culture 46 (July 2005), 485-512, online at Turner’s website (PDF)
- Donald E. Pitzer, "Developmental Communalism into the Twenty-First Century," in The Communal Idea in the 21st Century, ed. Eliezer Ben-Rafael et al. (Brill, 2013), available online from Fondren or on OWL-Space (thanks, Bill!)
Ruskin Colony at Yellow Creek, Tennessee
September 17
Blog comment due
- Brundage, A Socialist Utopia in the New South (required book), entire
September 24
Blog comment due
Readings on Oneida:
- Lawrence Foster, "Free Love and Feminism: John Humphrey Noyes and the Oneida Community," Journal of the Early Republic 1, no. 2 (Summer 1981), pp. 165-183, available on JSTOR
- Marilyn Klee-Hartzell, "’Mingling the Sexes’: The Gendered Organization of Work in the Oneida Community," The Courier (Fall 1993), available online
Readings on The Farm:
- Louis J. Kern, "Pronatalism, Midwifery, and Synergistic Spiritual Enlightenment and Sexual Ideology on The Farm," in Chmielewski, Kern, and Klee-Hartzell, ed., Women in Spiritual and Communitarian Societies in the United States (Syracuse University Press, 1993), reprinted online
- Tim Hodgdon, "’We Here Work as Hard as We Can’: The Farm’s Sexual Division of Labor," Chapter 5 in Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 1965-83 (Columbia University Press, 2007), available as an online book
Note: Informal email due by end of day on Friday; discuss your interests and ideas for the research paper
October 1
"Two Topics" Memo due by noon.
- Kanter, Commitment and Community, pp. 61-138
October 8
Blog comment due
- K’Meyer, Interracialism and Christian Community in the Postwar South (required book), entire
Final Sprint
Wedding of two members of Hog Farm, Photo by Lisa Law
For the remainder of the semester, you will be focusing intensively on reading and writing your research paper outside of class. The required benchmark assignments and their deadlines are listed below. During class, we will be conducting writing workshops and in-class source analyses to help you with the tasks of doing and writing about your research.
October 15
"Wikipedia" entry due by noon.
October 22
Submit your Proposal to me by midnight before our usual class time. In lieu of meeting as a group, I will be scheduling brief meetings with each of you this week to discuss your proposal.
October 29
Outline of your paper due by noon.
- Noyes, ed., Free Love in Utopia: John Humphrey Noyes and the Origin of the Oneida Community, pp. 213-218, available on OWL-Space.
- Robert S. Fogarty, ed., Desire and Duty at Oneida: Tirzah Miller’s Intimate Memoir, pp. 53-74, available on OWL-Space.
- First Annual Report of the Oneida Association (1849), scroll down and skim "Testimony of the Members"
November 5
Outline of your paper due by noon.
"Primary Source" Memo should be brought to class at 2pm.
November 12
"Three to Seven Page" Memo due by noon
November 19
"Three to Seven Page" Memo due by noon
November 26
NO CLASS. Complete first draft due by noon to me and your designated peer reviewer.
December 3
Final draft of research paper due by 5 p.m.
You will be meeting this week with myself and a student peer reviewer to discuss your paper.
December 17
Final draft of research paper due by 5 p.m.