Jim Josefson
Department of History & Political Science
Bridgewater College

 



 
 

 

 


Pre-Law Information

I am the Pre-Law advisor at Bridgewater College.

Students who wish to join the Pre-Law Society which organizes activities for aspiring lawyers should contact me or current president Meghan O'Keefe at mmo001@eagles.bridgewater.edu

http://www.bridgewater.edu/~jjosefso/Glasgowrose.gif    Bridgewater College Pre-Law Society Home Page

http://www.bridgewater.edu/~jjosefso/Glasgowrose.gif    What courses should I take at Bridgewater College if I’m interested in a legal career?

http://www.bridgewater.edu/~jjosefso/Glasgowrose.gif    What should my major be if I want to got to law school?

http://www.bridgewater.edu/~jjosefso/Glasgowrose.gif    Law School Admissions Council- administers LSATs and LSDAS

http://www.bridgewater.edu/~jjosefso/Glasgowrose.gif  American Bar Association Pre-Law Resources

 


 

 

Fall 2011 Courses:

http://www.bridgewater.edu/~jjosefso/Glasgowrose.gif   PDP 350     Personal Development in the Liberal Arts

          Syllabus

         

          Guidelines for Reflective Paragraphs

Strategies for Analysis

Intellect essay prompt

          Bridgewater College PDP Page

          Plato’s Myth of the Cave from The Republic

          Jim Josefson, “Learning Is Not Fun”

 

 

http://www.bridgewater.edu/~jjosefso/Glasgowrose.gif   PSCI 210 US Government and Politics

          Syllabus

          Term Paper Reflective Essay
 

         Lecture Notes in PowerPoint

         

http://www.bridgewater.edu/~jjosefso/Glasgowrose.gif   PSCI 470 Seminar in Political Science and International Studies

          Syllabus

 

 


 

 My research:

http://www.bridgewater.edu/~jjosefso/Glasgowrose.gif Don’t Argue, Reflect! : Reflections on Introducing Reflective Writing into Political Science Courses (forthcoming in PS)

 

http://www.bridgewater.edu/~jjosefso/Glasgowrose.gif Learning is Not Fun: Reflections on the Liberal Arts and Living Your Best Life

 

http://www.bridgewater.edu/~jjosefso/Glasgowrose.gif  A Theory of Justice as Ethical Consumption

http://www.bridgewater.edu/~jjosefso/Glasgowrose.gif"A Critique of Rawls's Hermeneutics of Translation
In the January, 1997 edition of Philosophy and Social Criticism with Jonathan Bach
 

My dissertation:

The Changing Construction of Partisan Identity:  Partisan Stereotypes in American National Elections, 1952-1994.

http://www.bridgewater.edu/~jjosefso/Glasgowrose.gifAbstract
 

http://www.bridgewater.edu/~jjosefso/Glasgowrose.gifChapter1: Introduction

http://www.bridgewater.edu/~jjosefso/Glasgowrose.gifChapter7: Implications of the Changing Construction of Partisan Identity
 


Op-Ed Pieces and Lectures

 

Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Speech, January 2003

 

Fighting for Power to Build Peace: A Roadmap for Pacifist Politics in the 21st Century

 

Gay Marriage Amendment Another Tragedy of Christian Literalism

 

 

Published in Daily New Record, Harrisonburg, VA:

 

Bush’s Social Security Plan Undermines Security and Economy

 

Iraq War Undermines War on Terrorism

 

President Bush’s New Liberalism

 

A Conservative Defense of Gay Marriage

 

Bush’s Tax Cuts a Trojan Horse Cut of Social Security

 

Solve International Crisis by Internationalism

 

 

 

 

 


 

http://www.bridgewater.edu/~jjosefso/Glasgowrose.gifMy curriculum vitae:

http://www.bridgewater.edu/~jjosefso/Glasgowrose.gifNot-so recent Family pictures

http://www.bridgewater.edu/~jjosefso/Glasgowrose.gifClaire Eleanor Roosevelt Josefson Homepage

http://www.bridgewater.edu/~jjosefso/Glasgowrose.gifMy list of Arts and Crafts Websites

http://www.bridgewater.edu/~jjosefso/Glasgowrose.gifShenandoah Valley chapter of Trout Unlimited: Information about my TU chapter, including information and current conditions

for trout streams in the Shenandoah Valley and a fly-of-the-month.


 
 


 
 

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Jim Josefson
Department of History & Political Science
Bridgewater College
Bridgewater, VA 22812-1599
Last modified August, 2010