N.B. Each chapter ends with a Making Connections Across and Beyond the Disciplines section
1. Putting a Price on Integrity: EDUCATION + ETHICS
OPENING IMAGE: Neville Elder, Counterfeit Items on Canal Street, New York
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, What the Bagelman Saw FROM: Freakonomics, Morrow, 2005
David Callahan, Everybody Does It FROM: The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead, Harvest, 2003
Rebeka Nathan, The Art of College Management: Cheating FROM: My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student, Cornell University Press, 2005
J. D Heyman, et al., psssstÉWhat’s the Answer? FROM: People, 24 January 2005
Jason Stephens, Justice or Just Us? What to do About Cheating FROM: www.carnegiefoundation.org/perspectives/perspectives2004.May.htm
William Gibson, God’s Little Toys: Confessions of a Cut and Paste Artist FROM: Wired, July 2005
Ed Tenner, Rise of the Plagiosphere: How New Tools to Detect Plagiarism Could Induce Mass Writer’s Block FROM: Technology Review, June 2005
FOCUS ON GENRE: WEB SITES
A Portfolio of Term Papers
Term Paper Terminal
www.samedayresearch.com
www.fastpapers.ca
READING DEEPLY: An Annotated Selection
Malcolm Gladwell, Something Borrowed FROM: The New Yorker, 22 November 2004
2. The Changing Landscape of Family: SOCIOLOGY + PUBLIC POLICY
OPENING IMAGE: Slava Veder, Burst of Joy, 1973
Carolyn Kleiner Butler, Coming Home FROM: Smithsonian, January 2005
Stephanie Coontz, The American Family FROM: Life, November 1999
Phyllis Rose, Le Beau-Pere
FROM: My Father Married Your Mother: Writers Talk about Stepparents, Stepchildren, and Everyone in Between, W.W. Norton, 2006
Emma Pearse, Rabenmutter: Germany in Angst Over Low Birthrate FROM: Women’s eNews,
11 April 2006
Caitlin Flanagan, Executive Child FROM: To Hell with All That: Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife, Little, Brown, 2006
Robert Kuttner, The Politics of Family FROM: The American Prospect, 8 April 2002
Susan Dominus, Growing Up with Mom and Mom FROM: The New York Times Magazine, 24 October 2004
Henry Louis Gates Jr., My Yiddishe Mama FROM: The Wall Street Journal,
01 February 2006
Michael Schuyler, We’re All Cousins and Other Web Revelations FROM: Computers in Libraries, February 2000
Roca Wear and Brooks Brothers advertisements FROM: Cookie, September 2006
FOCUS ON GENRE: MEMOIRS
A PORTFOLIO OF FAMILY MEMOIRS
Philip Weitl, The Important Things FROM: Nebraska Life, September/October 2005
Ruth Reichl, Grandmothers FROM: Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table, Broadway Books, 1999
Raymond Carver, Where He Was: Memories of My Father FROM: The Granta Book of the Family, Granta Books, 1995
Judith Ortiz Cofer, Casa: A Partial Rememberance of a Puerto Rican Childhood FROM: Prairie Schooner, Fall 1989
READING DEEPLY: An Annotated Selection
Patricia Hyjer Dyk, Complexity of Family Life Among the Low-Income and Working Poor FROM: Family Relations, March 2004
3. Defining Identity in a Virtual World: PSCYHOLOGY + TECHNOLOGY
OPENING IMAGE: From Second Life — 2up and 2down
Second Life, Snow
Second Life, Hanging
Second Life, Overheard
Second Life, Skydiving
Bruce Bower, Growing up Online FROM: Science News with Paula Lehman, 17 June 2006
Jessi Hempel, The MySpace Generation FROM: BusinessWeek, 12 December 2005
Sandra Barron, R We D8ting? FROM: The New York Times, 24 July 2005
Clive Thompson, The Sims: Suburban Rhapsody FROM: Psychology Today, Nov./Dec. 2003
Karen Moltenbrey, Life or Something Like It FROM: Computer Graphics World, July 2004
Jane Black, The Perils and Promise of Online Schmoozing FROM: Business Week, 20 December 2004
Peter Svensson, The Business of Life: Making a Virtual Living Telecommunting to a Brave New World FROM: abcnews.go.com, 2005
Barry Wellman, Community: From Neighborhood to Network FROM: Communications of the ACM, October 2005
Sherry Turkle, How Computers Change the Way We Think FROM: The Chronicle of Higher Education, 30 January 2004
FOCUS ON GENRE: BLOGS
A PORTFOLIO OF PERSONAL IDENTITY BLOGS
www.fortyishisfab.com/
www.vanityrunamok.com/blog/
www.memyi.us/
livesstrong.blogspot.com/
mylifeitalian.blogspot.com/
worstgenerationseed.blogspot.com/
www.mylifemypace.com/my-hp/
READING DEEPLY: An Annotated Selection
Adam N. Joinson and Beth Dietz-Uhler, Explanations for the Perpetration of and Reactions to Deception in a Virtual Community FROM: Social Science Computer Review, August 2002
4. Branding a Way of Life: BUSINESS + MARKETING
OPENING IMAGE: Barbara Kruger, Untitled (I shop, Therefore I am), 1987
Jane Hammerslough, What’s Changed? FROM: Dematerializing: Taming the Power of Possessions, DeCapo Press, 2001
Lauren Greenfield, Elysia, Evan, and Alison, all 14, and the self-titled ‘reject’ group (www.viiphoto.com/showstory.php?nID=191)
Claudia Wallis, The Thing About Thongs FROM: Time, 06 October 2003
TOMMY.com, ÒFollow the FlockÓ Spoof Advertisement FROM: Adbusters, adbusters.org/spoofads/fashion/tommy)
Rob Walker, Sprite Remix FROM: New York Times Magazine, 28 March 2004
Kate MacArthur and Hillary Chura, Urban Warfare FROM: Advertising Age, 4 September 2000
Renee Dye, The Buzz on Buzz FROM: Harvard Business Review, November/December 2000
Kenneth Hein, The Age of Reason FROM: MediaWeek, 27 October 2003
Kalle Lasn, The Cult You’re In FROM: Culture Jam: How to Reverse America’s Suicidal Consumer Binge — and Why We Must, William Morrow, 1999
Bruce Horovitz, P & G ‘Buzz Marketing’ Unit Hit with Complaint FROM: USA Today, 19 October 2005
FOCUS ON GENRE: MARKETING WEB SITES
A PORTFOLIO OF BUZZ MARKETING WEB SITES
universalbuzzintelligence.com/
www.intelg.com
www.buzz-oven.com/
streetattack.com/
poddesign.com/v2/
READING DEEPLY: An Annotated Selection
Scott Bedbury, The Value of Brand for the Commodity FROM: A New Brand World: Eight Principles for Achieving Brand Leadership in the 21st Century, Viking, 2002
5. Making and Remaking History: HISTORY + MEDIA
OPENING IMAGE: Slate.com, Drawings by Refugee Children in Darfur
Taha, 13 or 14.
Leila, 9.
Abd-al Rahman, 13.
Clayborne Carson, Malcolm X FROM: Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies, Ed. Mark C. Carnes, Henry Holt, 1996
Sarah Vowell, Excerpt from Chapter 1 FROM: Assassination Vacation, Simon and Schuster, 2005
Soldiers’ Blogs, Dispatches from US Soldiers in Iraq FROM: New York Times, April 15–May 3, 2006
John Hodgman, The States, Their Nicknames and Mottoes, and Other Facts Critical to Safe Travel FROM: The Areas of My Expertise, Penguin, 2005
Anne Scott MacLeod, Rewriting History FROM: Teacher Magazine, April 1998
Ian Mortimer, Revisionism Revisited FROM: History Today, March 2004
Robert Brent Toplin, Judging Cinematic History FROM: Reel History: In Defense of Hollywood, University Press of Kansas, 2002
Lynn Neary, The Mixed Reviews of the Museum of the American Indian FROM: All Things Considered, National Public Radio, 17 August 2005
John Leo, Googling the Future FROM: US News & World Report,
16 May 2005
FOCUS ON GENRE: Graphic Novels
A PORTFOLIO OF HISTORICAL GRAPHIC NOVELS
Art Spiegelman, Excerpt FROM: Maus: A Survivor’s Tale, Pantheon, 1986
Marjane Satrapi, Excerpt FROM: Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, Pantheon, 2003
Rick Geary, Excerpt FROM: The Murder of Abraham Lincoln, NBM/Comics Lit, 2005
Aaron Renier, Just Answer the Phone FROM: 9-11 Artists Respond, Volume One, Dark Horse Comics, 2002
Joe Sacco, Excerpt FROM: Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-95, Fantagraphics Books, 2000
READING DEEPLY: An Annotated Selection
Janet Jacobs, From the Profane to the Sacred: Ritual and Mourning at Sites of Terror and Violence FROM: Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, September 2004
6. Mapping the Human Genome: BIOLOGY + ART
OPENING IMAGE: Susan Robb, Bunny Test, 2000
Alan Lightman, A Tale of Two Loves FROM: Nature, 17 March 2005
Stephen Jay Gould, Humbled by the Genome’s Mysteries FROM: The New York Times, 19 February 2001
Roz Chast and Tom Tomorrow, Creative Time DNA Deli Coffee Cups (2000) FROM: www.creativetime.org
Johannes Borgstein, The Poetry of Genetics FROM: Lancet, 02 May 1998
Art Lentini, Ban All Human Cloning FROM: USA Today, 11 August 2005
James Watson, Genome Ethics FROM: New Perspectives Quarterly, Fall 2004)
Dave Barry, Genes Cleaned and Starched, While You Wait FROM: The Miami Herald, 23 July 2000
Carol Becker, GFP Bunny FROM: Art Journal, Fall 2000
FOCUS ON GENRE: GENOMIC ART
A PORTFOLIO OF ART ABOUT THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT
Eduardo Kac, GFP Bunny
Virgil Wong, Genochoice Homepage
Nancy Burson, There is No Gene for Race
Carrie Mae Weams, Ribbon and Child at Play, 1999
Dennis Ashbaugh, Jolly Green Giant
Christy Rupp, Tell Us What We Are Eating
READING DEEPLY: An Annotated Selection
Tamar Schlick, The Critical Collaboration Between Art and Science: An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump and the Ramifications of Genomics for Society FROM: Leonardo, August