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Martin H. Peretz, instructor in Social Studies, asserts that the Institute must justify itself as a positive gain to the community. "They obviously haven't thought through the full implications of what they're doing--they're just trying to spend all that money," Peretz declared...
There will be no prerequisites for the course, but Peretz hopes enrollment can be kept to a modest figure. Soc. Sci. 101 will also be one of the new courses which; when taken in conjunction with a full year's course in History. Government, Social Relations, or Economics, will fulfill one half the Basic Requirement in Social Sciences...
...Martin Peretz, instructor in Social Studies, who will teach the course, explained that "it will deal with the implicit assumptions, value orientations and ideological implications of some selected ways of thinking about society and history." The approach, he continued, will be similar to Social Studies 10 and will examine "the predispositions and uses of theory...
...Peretz will be assisted by David Levey teaching fellow in Economics, who will share a substantial part of the lecturing. The plan, Peretz explained, is to structure into the course the notion that almost every assertion in the Social Sciences is contestable. By having two teachers at the podium arguing an issue on which they disagree, Peretz continued, students hopefully will be jarred out of the role of stenographer and become critics of social theory...
...course will concentrate on two intensive case studies: theories of power in America, taught by Peretz, and theories of the capitalist economy taught by Levey. There will probably be a number of sections concentrating on different aspects of these two fields so that students will be able to sign up for a topic which interests them. The sections, Peretz said, should be preparation for a long theorotical paper which will be due at the end of the term...