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Okay folks, I want to teach a course on Dorothy Day for interterm. The proposal is due at 4, EST, so I'm cutting it close. More for my own satisfaction than any productive end, here is my course proposal, bio and catalog description.
May 1, 1933: the first issue of the Catholic Worker is sold for a penny a piece in New York's Union Square. Dorothy Day, a young former communist convert and Peter Maurin, a former Christian Brother and French Peasant began the paper as a means to spread their message of personalism, voluntary poverty and nonviolence. This publication and their work spurred a world-wide movement which is still active seventy years later. Day and Maurin lived the tenets of personalism, advocating social change through a change on an individual. Rather than advocating government-funded charitable social services or a military coup, they believed one should take it on themselves to right the wrongs around them through personal action and interaction. Those who lived and worked in the House of Hospitality ate the same food, take their clothes from the same donation box and slept under the same roof as those in need. An advocacy paper, the Catholic Worker remained staunchly pacifist throughout the Second World War, Korea, Vietnam and every military conflict in between and since. There are now Houses of Hospitality and local Catholic Worker newspapers around the country and the globe.
This course proposes gives an overview of: the lives of Day and Maurin; the history and tenets of the Catholic Worker Movement; the significance and originality of this work in the American Catholic Church and offer resources for those who are interested in learning about this movement's history or current work beyond what the course can offer. Students will receive copies of the Catholic Worker; read examples of Maurin's "Easy Essays," the prose poems he used to tie together Christianity and social justice; see a movie on the life of Dorothy Day and discuss the morality of pacifism.
"When I feed the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist." - Dom Camera. An overview of the Catholic Worker movement and the life of Dorothy Day. This course will examine the Catholic Worker newspaper, and discuss the tenets of the movement: personalism (social change through individual-level action), voluntary poverty nonviolence and pacifism. One day of the course will be devoted to showing a film on Dorothy Day called "Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story."
Masscooper hails from Chicago, IL and is fascinated by women's work for social change as individuals and in groups. A soc geek since 2001 and a feminist since birth, she dreams of libraries that never close and is always seeking out others passionate about the beauty of ideas.
So yeah, if you're a smithie and they accept this, you should sign up. I need 10 people! ::Puppy dog eyes::
May 1, 1933: the first issue of the Catholic Worker is sold for a penny a piece in New York's Union Square. Dorothy Day, a young former communist convert and Peter Maurin, a former Christian Brother and French Peasant began the paper as a means to spread their message of personalism, voluntary poverty and nonviolence. This publication and their work spurred a world-wide movement which is still active seventy years later. Day and Maurin lived the tenets of personalism, advocating social change through a change on an individual. Rather than advocating government-funded charitable social services or a military coup, they believed one should take it on themselves to right the wrongs around them through personal action and interaction. Those who lived and worked in the House of Hospitality ate the same food, take their clothes from the same donation box and slept under the same roof as those in need. An advocacy paper, the Catholic Worker remained staunchly pacifist throughout the Second World War, Korea, Vietnam and every military conflict in between and since. There are now Houses of Hospitality and local Catholic Worker newspapers around the country and the globe.
This course proposes gives an overview of: the lives of Day and Maurin; the history and tenets of the Catholic Worker Movement; the significance and originality of this work in the American Catholic Church and offer resources for those who are interested in learning about this movement's history or current work beyond what the course can offer. Students will receive copies of the Catholic Worker; read examples of Maurin's "Easy Essays," the prose poems he used to tie together Christianity and social justice; see a movie on the life of Dorothy Day and discuss the morality of pacifism.
"When I feed the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist." - Dom Camera. An overview of the Catholic Worker movement and the life of Dorothy Day. This course will examine the Catholic Worker newspaper, and discuss the tenets of the movement: personalism (social change through individual-level action), voluntary poverty nonviolence and pacifism. One day of the course will be devoted to showing a film on Dorothy Day called "Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story."
Masscooper hails from Chicago, IL and is fascinated by women's work for social change as individuals and in groups. A soc geek since 2001 and a feminist since birth, she dreams of libraries that never close and is always seeking out others passionate about the beauty of ideas.
So yeah, if you're a smithie and they accept this, you should sign up. I need 10 people! ::Puppy dog eyes::
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I read an excerpt from The Long Loneliness to my kids today for daily prayer.