UCB Harmony and Confucian Understanding of The Family Paper

The required course readings are:

Xinzhong Yao, An Introduction to Confucianism (Entire book by Week 4)

Assignment requirements:

Choose and answer one of the following (cite lectures and Xinzhong Yao, An Introduction to Confucianism (Entire book by Week 4)

for all answers)

1.Explain the paradox of proper order and illustrate it

2.Explain the Confucian understanding of the family

3.Explain harmony

This assignment should be 5-6 pages

Formatting

Use standard formatting (points will be deducted otherwise)

• Double spacing,

• 12 Times New Roman,

1 inch margins,

• No more than 1 inch of space dedicated to title and header,

• No extraneous space between paragraphs or headers.

Cite lecture and class readings where appropriate (points will be deducted otherwise)

• Include a bibliography page at the end of your paper,

• Include in-text parenthetical citations throughout the paper (including lecture dates),

• Please do not use footnotes unless absolutely necessary,

• Please do not use outside sources,

• Do not copy/paste lecture notes into the text of your response (this is plagiarism),

• Please do not simply paraphrase the lecture notes or the book,

• Again, plagiarism (including self-plagiarism) will not be tolerated. Turnitiin can detect similarities

to papers submitted for previous versions of this course and outside sources.We will report any

violations to the Academic Integrity office, and the University will assemble a team to assess the

incident and determine consequences.