Fall 2000 607 Seminar
Instructors: Pamela Birrell and Jennifer Freyd
Grading option: Optional
Credits: 4
Instructor's consent
CRN: 16836
Time: Fridays 13:00-14:50 in 156 Stb
Course Home Page at http://dynamic.uoregon.edu/~jfreyd/psy607-fall00/index.html
This seminar will cover teaching, research, and clinical and ethics with the wider issues of psychology in society and an examination of underlying assumptions about the role and nature of psychological practice and reasoning. The material will be relevant to all psychology graduate students, as we will cover ethics and diversity issues pertaining to teaching, research, and psychological practice/therapy.
The goal of the course is for students to develop their own deep ethic, which will serve as a guide to understanding and using "pre-packaged" ethical guidelines in any field. We will examine underlying assumptions using the feminist ideals of reflexivity and relationality, and we will evaluate the use and interpretation of "rationality" to determine ethical behavior.
Textbook: M.M. Brabeck (Ed), 2000, Practicing Feminist Ethics in Psychology, American Psychological Association.
Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye. (You should be finished reading this book by November 3.)
The required texts is found at Mother Kali's bookstore, 720 E 13th, 343-4864.
Other readings in room 348.
Discussion Leaders: Anne DePrince and Gretchen Lussier
Readings: Chapter 1 of Brabeck
Brown, Laura (1994) Feminism and Ethics. Chapter 8 of Subversive Dialogues: Theory in Feminist Therapy. Basic Books.
Dalai Lama (1999) Ethics for the New Millennium, chapters 2, 8, and 16. Riverhead Books.
Discussion Leader: David Freed
Readings: Chapter 5 of Brabeck
Gergen, Kenneth (1994) chapter 7 (Objectivity as Rhetorical Achievement) of Realities and Relationship: Soundings in Social Construction. Harvard University Press.
Whitt, L.A. (1998) Resisting Value-Bifurcation: Indigenist Critiques of the Human Genome Diversity Project, In B. Bar On and A. Ferguson (Eds), Daring to be Good: Essays in Feminist Ethico-politics. Routledge.
Discussin Leader: Kathy Becker
Readings: Chapter 6 of Brabeck
Grossman, F.K. et al. (1997) Feminist Research: Practice and Problems in Worell, J. and N.G. Johnson, Shaping the Future of Feminist Psychology: Education, Research and Practice. American Psychological Association.
Klonoff, E.A., Landrine, H., & Campbell, R. (2000) Sexist discrimination may account for well-known gender differences in psychiatric symptoms. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 24, 93-99.
Discussion Leader: Vicky Curry
Readings: Chapters 2 and 8 of Brabeck
Roper-Huilman, Becky (1998) Conceptualizing Truth in Teaching and Learning: Implications of Truth Seeking for Feminist Practice. In B. Bar On and A. Ferguson, Daring to be Good: Essays in Feminist Ethico-politics. Routledge.
Smith, D. C. (1996) The Ethics of Teaching. InLinc. Fisch, (Ed.) Ethical Dimensions of College and University Teaching: Understanding and Honoring the Special Relationship Between Teachers and Students. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, #66, Jossey-Bass.
Reynolds, C. H. (1996) Making Responsible Academic Decision. University Teaching: Understanding and Honoring the Special Relationship Between Teachers and Students. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, #66, Jossey-Bass.
Discussion Leaders: Bayta Maring and Alison Lusk
Readings: Chapters 3 and 10 of Brabeck
You should be finished with The Bluest Eye!
McWhorter, Ladelle. (1999) Chapter (Views from the Site of Political Oppression: Or, How I Served as an Anchor Point for Power and Emerged as a Locus of Resistance) Bodies and Pleasure: Foucault and the Politics of Sexual Normalization. Indiana University Press.
Discussion Leader : Linda Donovan
Readings: Clement, Grace. (1996) Introduction and Conclusion from Care, Autonomy, and Justice: Feminism and the Ethic of Care. Westview Press.
Gergen, K. (1994). Chapter 6 (The Cultural Consequences of Deficit Discourse) of Realities and Relationship: Soundings in Social Construction. Harvard University Press.
"On professionalism" by Miriam Greenspan. In When boundaries betray us: beyond illusions of what is ethical in therapy and life. Ed: Heyward, Carter; HarperSanFransisco, 1993 pp 193-205.
Scheurich, J.J. & Young, M.D. (1997) Coloring epistemologies: Are our research epistemologies racially biased? Educational Researcher, 26, 4-16.
Discussion Leader: Alice Rothschild
Readings: Chapter 9 of Brabeck
Smith, A.J. and M.A. Douglas (1990). Empowerment as an Ethical Imperative. In Hannah Lerman and Natalie Porter (Eds.) Feminist Ethics in Psychotherapy, Springer Publishing. Pp. 43-50.
Rivera, M. (1996) I-Thou: Interpersonal Boundaries in the Therapy Relationship. In Ragsdale, K.H. (Ed.) Boundary Wars: Intimacy and Distance in Healing Relationships. The Pilgrim Press.
Discussion Leader: Kristin Penza
Readings: Chapters 4, 7, 11 of Brabeck or other topics of interest