DOCUMENT by: Bob Hassenger
Subject: What We're Doing

Module Overview:

In this module, we continue to explore the dimensions of community, as you tease them out of Ehrenhalt, which we shall finish. At the conclusion, at the end of the week, you will have an opportunity to pull together what you have learned, in the first assignment.

Module Learning Objectives:

To think further about some of the basic qualities and characteristics of community, and what it means to be an individual in a community, using Chicago of the 1950s as a baseline. We need to begin somewhere. This is within the lifetimes of at least some members of the families of most students, if not of the students themselves. As I have said, it is that part of the time-space continuum in which I grew up. We are not trying to be nostalgic about it. Nor unduly critical of it. But, rather, to understand it. Not only on its own terms, but as a yardstick against which to "measure" social change in the half-century since.

Readings:

Due Date: October 5, 2003

Parts III-V of Ehrenhalt (Chapters 6-13)

Assignments:

Due Date: Week of October 5, 2003

First assignment due.

Discussions:

Start Date: September 29, 2003

End Date: October 5, 2003

If you have any questions about the assignments or activities for this module, please click on the ASK A QUESTION link below. Now go to the next document to begin this module.

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