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3-5 Cruelty vs. Compassion; Peer Pressure, Authority, and Sadism; bring quote selection preferences from anthology: Tower interior: quotations.…………………295-296

TODAY'S GOALS:

[1] IMMEDIATE PRACTICAL GOALS

Our goals are to help students meet college academic standards and to help them get and keep jobs. To that end, students need to learn [1C] how to read and follow directions

[2E] WRITING. GOAL OF THE OLD AS WELL AS THE NEW CURICULUM: “Every graduate of the University is expected to be able to express himself or herself clearly and correctly in writing” (U. T. “Basic Education Requirements”) [2E5] To practice the new writing as the product of conscious, deliberate collaboration as well as isolation, drawing on the help and advice of your fellow students as well as your instructor.

[2A2] ETHICS [2A2] The second goal of the required leadership/ethics flag courses -- learn to make real-life ethical choices -- is closely related to the core purpose of the University of Texas, to transform lives for the benefit of society. It is also one of the basic education requirements of U.T.: “have experience in thinking about moral and ethical problems.” Our ethics goals are

[2A2e] To return to the traditional college goals of developing character and conscience.

[2A2f] To practice replacing fear and greed with love, compassion, tolerance, and the sympathetic imagination.

[2G] INDEPENDENT INQUIRY GOALS [2I1] “to know thyself.”[2I2] to think for your self, make your own ethical decisions, be able to resist peer pressure

TODAY'S TOPICS:Sadism, Peer Pressure vs. Emotive Ethics;

TODAY'S ACTIVITIES: FEEDBACK, QUIZ, BLOG DISCUSSION, bring quote selection preferences from anthology: Tower interior: quotations.…………………295-296

REQUIRED READING:

Hogarth's Stages of Cruelty

http://youtu.be/fKT-LcFrA78

The Zimabardo experiment

http://youtu.be/4Q7oH4WH8wU

The Experiment movie trailer

Crush Videos

Schadenfreude

http://youtu.be/4XmZIcmRKkc

Starving a Dog to Death as "Art":

Guardian article

ACTIVITIES: Feedback, Quiz, Discussion of P2, P1, and Sadism. At 3 leave for Leadership Speech: return to Tower, symbol of UT leadership: today Hall of Noble Words, will leave at 3 or so, and have a brief assignment there Snapping Turtle's speech on Tower Reading Room Quotes.

REQUIRED COURSE ANTHOLOGY PAGES

471-475     Sadism in Yale and Stanford Experiments

476-482     Hogarth, Four Stages of Cruelty

http://www.la.utexas.edu/users/bump/images/Hogarth/cruel1.jpg

http://www.la.utexas.edu/users/bump/images/Hogarth/Cruelty2.JPG

483--487   The Animal Cruelty Syndrome

489-523    Zimbardo et al, "Stanford Prison Experiment"

REVIEW, CONNECT, HAMMER INTO UNITY: your self and the animal kingdom, your experiences of the relationship between animals and us, your relationship to the term "Earthling"

LOOKING AHEAD: bring P1 and all critiques received so far. 3-7 P1 CRITIQUES DUE ON BLACKBOARD by midnight, 3-19 Revision OF P1 FOR INSTRUCTOR: Speeches Mt. Lion: Battle Hall; after Spring Break: Grizzly Bear: Sutton Hall; Penguin: Washington Statue; Owl: Wilson Statue. Extra Credit for rest of South Mall statues.

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