Recommended:
- L. Björk, et. Al., The Writing Process: Composition Writing for University Students, especially, Chapters II & III (reference section, Sophus Bugges library).
Required:
- Alec Fisher, Critical Thinking: An Introduction
Excerpts averaging 15 pages from the following books and articles (Classfronter):
A. Classical Works in American Studies:
- Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull House
- Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio
- Robert Bellah, "Civil Religion in America"
- Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer
- John Dewey, Democrcay and Education
- Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography
- Paul Goodman, Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals
- Thomas Jefferson, “The Ward Republic”
- Jack Kerouac, “Ghosts of the Pawtucketville Night”
- C. Lasch, Culture of Narcissism
- Lewis Mumford, The Myth of the Machine
- Thomas Paine, Common Sense
- Vernon Louis Parrington, Main Currents in American Thought
- Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
- Alan Trachtenberg, The Incorporation of America
- F. J. Turner, The Frontier in American History
B. Contemporary Academic Texts/Discourses:
- Kathleen K. Abowitz & Jason Harnish, “Contemporary Discourses of Citizenship” in Review of Educational Research (2006)
- Judith Vega, “A neorepublican cultural citizenship: beyond Marxism and liberalism” in Citizenship Studies (2010)
- Desmond King, Making Americans: Immigration, Race and the Origins of Diverse Democracy (Harvard, 2000)
- Peter Newman, Timothy Beatley, & Heather Boyer, Resilient Cities: Responding to Peak Oil and Climate Change (Island Press, 2009)