1    9/11:    What question/issue about hate crimes do you find most interesting? Why?

2    9/16:    Petrosino discusses several historical examples that she considers hate crimes. Do you agree?

3    9/18:    Can we trust the government to police hatred when it often institutionalizes bias itself?

4    9/30:    What is your reaction to the letter to the editor I distributed today in class?

5    10/9:    What are some of your own prejudices? Where do you think they came from?

6    10/14:    In what ways do you think society's treatment of your group (race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc.) has helped or hindered you? What privileges or disadvantages have you experienced?

7    10/21:    Take any two of the hidden bias tests online. What were your results and what is your reaction to them?

8    10/28:    What do you think would be effective ways of reducing hate groups' influence? Kepp in mind why people join, how the groups recruit, and why people leave.

9    11/4:    Why do you think people join hate groups?

10    11/13:    A Jewish colleague once said to me, "I can never forgive the Germans." I replied that I thought that the Germans were no worse than anyone else, and the Holocaust could have happened anywhere. What do you think?