PREVIOUS COURSES

1. Politics, Society, & the Mass Media
2. Social Entrepreneurship
3. ​Citizenship, Land, Economy
4. Social Innovation Lab
5. Social Welfare ​
6. Democracy & Dissent

1. Politics, Society,
​& the Mass Media

SLIDES

SYLLABUS

Additional slides: Ideology in media

​ASSIGNMENTS 
Presentation sign-up sheet
Learning statement entries
Presentation grading form
Annotated Bibliography instructions

TEXTS
Communication and New Media, by Harrison et al. 

// SYMBOLS & IDEOLOGY
Rhetorical Criticism as the Asking of Questions, by Sonja Foss 
Down with Ideology: Zizek Video
Performing Civic Identity (Iwo Jima), by Hariman and Lucaites 

// MEDIA ECOLOGY (definition)
Manufacturing Consent, by Herman & Chomsky 
The Medium is the Message, by Marshall McLuhan
Orality & Literacy, by Walter Ong
Amusing Ourselves to Death, by Neil Postman

// CRITICAL STUDIES 
The Culture Industry, by Horkheimer & Adorno

// THE INTERNET + DEMOCRACY
The Shallows, by Nicholas Carr (summary)
Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?, by Jean Twenge (Atlantic)
The Shattered Mirror, by the Public Policy Forum (website)
Post-Truth, by Evan Davis (video)
Trick Mirror, by Jia Tolentino (podcast interview)
Digital Democracy/Tyranny of Cyberspace, by Slavoj Zizek (video)
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ADDITIONAL READING
The App Generation, by Howard & Davis

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4. Social Welfare

SYLLABUS

GRADING

SLIDES
​Social Welfare
Child Welfare and EI
First Nations and CFS

SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS
The Precariat, by Guy Standing
A World With No BS Jobs, by David Graeber
The Disappearing Company Job, CBC​

ASSIGNMENTS
Annotated Bibliography

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5. Social Innovation Lab

SLIDES

2. Social Entrepreneruship

SYLLABUS

SLIDES
Theory + Practice
Management for SE
The Persuasive Essay

SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS
Why the Lean Startup Changes Everything
Startup Structures: MaRS Impact Report
The Quiet Radicalism of Building a Lifestyle Business

MAJOR ASSIGNMENT 
​Pathway descriptions (select your pathway)

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3. Citizenship, Land, Economy

SYLLABUS

Grading

SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS

DEFINITIONS + OBJECTIVES
What is the Steady State Economy? by James MJ
What is Degrowth? by Frederico Demaria et al

PRIMARY TEXTS
Sacred Economics, by Charles Eisenstein
Small Is Beautiful, by EF Schumacher
The Land Ethic, by Aldo Leopold
Towards a Society of Frugal Abundance pt 1, by Serge Latouche 
Towards a Society of Frugal Abundance pt 2, by Serge Latouche 

SEPARATION
A History of Alienation, by Martin Jay
Why Loneliness is Toxic, by Wendy Leung
In extremis, by Nabeelah Jaffer
Only the Lonely, by Cody Deslistraty

ENERGY
Revisiting the Limits to Growth, by Hall & Day
The Physics of Energy and the Economy, by Gail Tverberg

TECHNOLOGY
A Critique of Techno-Optimism, by Samuel Alexander
Twenty Questions: Technology and Simple Living, by Mark Burch 

JOBS
The Precariat, by Guy Standing
A World With No BS Jobs, by David Graeber
The Disappearing Company Job, CBC
Educating for Simple Living, by Mark Burch

COSMIC CONSIDERATIONS
The Church of Economism..., Richard Norgaard
​Enlivenment, by Andreas Weber
A New Story for a New Economy, by David Korten

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6. Democracy & Dissent

syllabus

slides

• Contact form (please provide your email address for regular correspondence)
  
• Letter writing campaign instructions

​*Updated withdrawal date: March 20, 2020*

Open book test on chapters 1-3.
​(the test will be taken in class)