I've been having so much fun planning for this class, considering unique ways to explain some of the tenets of humanistic psychology. I stepped well outside the conventional box this week by reading to you Shirley Jackson's famous/infamous short story, "The Lottery." My thought here is to enter into a dialogue about concepts of morality, using this controversial story as a springboard. We'll get some basic ideas out (are some things just "wrong," some things just "right?") and then look at this from a humanistic standpoint.
In some ways, this class is evolving from strictly a "Humanistic Psychology" class to more a class on humanism. In fact, you may want to look at the Wikipedia entry for Humanism.
If you missed today's class, you can read "The Lottery" online here. To be well prepared for our continuing dialogue on morality, please consider reading Christiane Amanpour and the Moral Lottery.
Note, there is no class next week due to intensives week so we'll continue our dialogue on March 11th. Counting class that day, there are only 3 class sessions remaining. And do be aware I'll be pitching the "49 Up" class many of you requested for spring term.
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