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May 31 - July 5 / Finals on July 6

Week 1 (May 31- July 5): Rhetoric and Democracy

• Blog Post:
• Rhetoric and Democracy
• Readings
• On Democracy by Robert A. Dahl
• News: The Politics of Illusion by W. Lance Bennett

Week 2 (June 6-12): Music

• Blog Post: 
• Rebelling and Rebelling Again
• Crime to Cultural Truncation
• Will Sing for Clothes
• Readings
• Anarchy, Pop and Violence: Punk Rock Subculture and the Rhetoric of Class, 1976-78.
• Cultural Democratisation and Popular Music
• Female body dissatisfaction after exposure to overweight and thing media images: The role of body mass index and neuroticism by Simon E. Dalley
• Teaching Music As Democratic Practice by Lisa C. Delorenzo

Week 3 (June 13-19): Satire

• Blog Post: 
• Funny Ha-Ha?
• Perspective and Preposterous Political Parties
• Readings
• Journalism, Satire or Just Laughs? "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" Examined by Pew Research Center For the People & the Press
• On Democracy by Robert A. Dahl
• News: The Politics of Illusion by W. Lance Bennett
• Political satire and postmodern irony in the age of Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart by Lisa Colletta 

Week 4 (June 20-26): Fiction

• Blog Post:
• Functional Fiction
• Stop Voldemort
• Readings:
• The Ones Who Walked Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Modes of Moral Reasoning in Uncle Tom's Cabin by Joel Johnson
• A letter from an ex-witch writing about Harry Potter by Anonymous
• Is Harry Potter Evil by Judy Blume

Week 5 (June 27- July 3): TBA

• Continued with previously listed topics, editing and adding a post here and there.
• Final Project: Safe Sex in the Media