IDC 201 READING LIST

WEEK TWO

 "Warfare: An Invention . . ."

"Mainstreams of World History"

"The U.S. Was Right"

"The U.S. Was Wrong"

"First Atomic Bomb"

"Black Rain"

"Two Styles of Learning" On Reserve

"Departmental"

"The Marks of an Educated Man"

WEEK THREE

"Body Ritual Among the Nacirema"

"Morning Song"

"The Anthropology of Manners"

"The Allegory of the Cave"

WEEK THREE

"Just What is Science?"

"Design of a Simple Experiment"

WEEK FOUR

"Science & China's Influence"

"Science"

"Religion and Science"

WEEK FIVE

"The Tao of Physics"

from "Dancing Wu Li Masters,"

WEEK SIX

"Schrodinger's Cat"

"Beginner's Mind"

from Data for Decisions

from The Logic of Social Inquiry

"Blind Data"

from Future Shock

"Tally's Corner" On Reserve

"Warfare: An Invention . . ." (review)

"The Anthropology of Manners" (review)

WEEK SEVEN

"Probability and Coincidence"

"The Danger of Lying in Bed"

". . . Environmental Problems and Poverty"

"The Eye of the Beholder"

WEEK EIGHT

"Programmed for Disaster"

"Is Error-Free Software Achievable?" On Reserve

"Bourgeois and Proletarians"

WEEK NINE

"When Does History Happen?" On Reserve

"In Search of History" On Reserve

Reading from Booker T. Washington and On Reserve

W.E.B. DuBois

from A Distant Mirror On Reserve

from "The American Scholar"

from "The Custom-House"

from Walden

"Young Goodman Brown"

from The Hound of the Baskervilles

 WEEK TEN

"The Child by Tiger"

"The Most Dangerous Game"

"Religion and Nothingness"

"Of Universal Tolerance"

"Understanding the Bible" On Reserve

"Two Concepts of Deity" On Reserve

"the preacher . . ." On Reserve

WEEK ELEVEN

"Three Concepts of Creation" On Reserve

"After the Death of God the Father" On Reserve

from Great Feminist Texts On Reserve

WEEK TWELVE

"The Machine Stops" On Reserve

"Love Among the Robots" On Reserve

"Men of Science Have Their Say" On Reserve

The Unknown Citizen" On Reserve

"God's Grandeur"

"Is Thinking Computable?"

"The Marks of an Educated Man" (review)

We have put most of our readings into a "book" that we print ourselves. It took a while to gather the copyright permissions.