1984, The Handmaid's Tale, Brave New World
1984 seminar topics and related readings:
North Korea
Teaching Essay Writing in Pyongyang
Language
Does Your Language Shape How you Think?
Propaganda and Public Relations
Public relations: Rise of the image men
Surveillance
Does Surveillance Make Us Morally Better?
The Handmaid's Tale seminar topic and related readings:
A) Why and how does Gilead seek to make women into objects?
Haunted by The Handmaid's Tale
B) Why and how do women in Gilead seek to make themselves subjects?
The Gap between Official History and Women's Histories: Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
C) Close reading of two passages and the Historical Notes
Brave New World seminar topics and related readings:
A) Historical Context: Sex - What was Huxley afraid of?
Sex Education and Changing Sexual Norms in the 1920s
B) Historical Context: Mass Society and Conditioning - What was Huxley afraid of?
Mass Production, Henry Ford, Pavlov and Classical Conditioning
C) Historical Context: Why is the idea of loss of choice and authenticity disturbing?
excerpt from Charles Taylor's The Malaise of Modernity
D) Close reading: The discussion between Mustapha and John
E) Close reading: What do you think of the Savage Reservation?
F) Character exploration: Bernard, Helmholtz, Lenina - rebels?
G) Have Huxley fears about sexuality come to pass?
The Playboy and his Western World
H) What is the Good Life? Mond's answer challenged
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1984 seminar topics and related readings:
North Korea
Teaching Essay Writing in Pyongyang
Language
Does Your Language Shape How you Think?
Propaganda and Public Relations
Public relations: Rise of the image men
Surveillance
Does Surveillance Make Us Morally Better?
The Handmaid's Tale seminar topic and related readings:
A) Why and how does Gilead seek to make women into objects?
Haunted by The Handmaid's Tale
B) Why and how do women in Gilead seek to make themselves subjects?
The Gap between Official History and Women's Histories: Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
C) Close reading of two passages and the Historical Notes
Brave New World seminar topics and related readings:
A) Historical Context: Sex - What was Huxley afraid of?
Sex Education and Changing Sexual Norms in the 1920s
B) Historical Context: Mass Society and Conditioning - What was Huxley afraid of?
Mass Production, Henry Ford, Pavlov and Classical Conditioning
C) Historical Context: Why is the idea of loss of choice and authenticity disturbing?
excerpt from Charles Taylor's The Malaise of Modernity
D) Close reading: The discussion between Mustapha and John
E) Close reading: What do you think of the Savage Reservation?
F) Character exploration: Bernard, Helmholtz, Lenina - rebels?
G) Have Huxley fears about sexuality come to pass?
The Playboy and his Western World
H) What is the Good Life? Mond's answer challenged
Lucky Jim
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