College of Business Administration

Seminar in Business and the Good Society

Assignment for February 26:

Literature on utopia plays a foundational role in consideration of just how the 'good society' might be constructed. Students are to read and report to the class on one piece of utopian literature of their own choosing. This is a non-graded assignment; the intention is to expose the class to as many alternative constructions of the 'good society' in as brief an amount of time as possible. Each 'presentation' will be limited to fifteen minutes, including time for questions. Issues to be included in the oral report should include those questions outlined in Part I of the Term Project as outlined in the course syllabus. A list of sample readings is offered on page 7 of the course syllabus; in order to avoid duplication of treatment, titles will be awarded to discussants on a first-come, first-served basis. It is also acceptable for the student to report on contemporary novels, films, poetry, music, and/or theatre arts which relate to the general theme of utopia. Recommended reading for this assignment is Ruppert's Reader in a Strange Land: The Activity of reading Literary Utopias.

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