GENDER,
RACE, CLASS, SEXUALITY
Fall 2007 - PACE Section
SCHEDULE
GENDER,
RACE, CLASS, SEXUALITY
Fall 2007 - PACE Section
SCHEDULE
Notes: - PACE Session I for Fall 2007: August 29th to October 20th, 2007.
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Date |
What
we're doing |
Readings
& Things Due |
| August 29th - Wednesday | INTRODUCTION to the
class – to key concepts – and to each other |
Meet ONLINE @ 6 p.m. Access online chats here through WebCT Introductions - link in WebCT Instructions on how to access link: Discussion Boards Online Responses to Introductions link in WebCT – Due by August 31st @ Midnight. I will be emailing the class from time to time. I will use your CSUN emails to do so. Please make sure that you check your CSUN emails daily -- or go to the ITR website to arrange for mail forwarding to an email account that you DO check. |
September 5th -
Wednesday |
Video at Library: A Place of Rage This
video will be reserved under this number: 83400 |
Meet ONLINE @ 6 p.m. Access online chats here through WebCT Sing, Whisper, Shout, Pray… Text · Sec II – Merle Woo – Josephine and me – p.221-230 · Sec III – Susan Shown Harjo, “What do you want to be called?” – p.288-290 Reader: · Donna Kate Rushin – The Bridge Poem [poem] · Cherrie Moraga – La Guera · Nellie Wong – When I was Growing Up [poem] · Audre Lorde – Age, race, class and sex: Women redefining difference DUE by 6 p.m. - Questions Link #1 - link in WebCT |
| September 8th - Saturday | SHIFTING THE CENTER - THEORY IN THE FLESH: Nation, Immigration and Resistance along the Intersections. | Discussion Boards. NO synchronous chat today. Please post your Discussion Boards [DB's] by midnight tonight. Sing, Whisper, Shout, Pray… Text · Sec IV - Becky Thompson, Multiracial Feminism (397-424) Reader: · Chandra Talpade Mohanty – Defining genealogies: Feminist reflections on being South Asian in North America · Margaret Atwood – A woman’s issue [poem] Online · Aimee Carrillo Rowe – My Spine - Power Lines -- PLEASE access through link in WebCT. DUE: Discussion Boards #1 on readings above - link in WebCT |
| September 12th -
Wednesday |
REDEFINING DIFFERENCE:
WHITE PRIVILEGE |
Reader: DUE by 6 p.m. - Questions Link #2 - link in WebCT Please think about the following questions when doing the readings and watching the film. Reflect on them BEFORE class today. 1. How has your awareness of white privilege changed or been affected by these readings and this video? 2. What are some aspects of white privilege as presented by McIntosh that you could relate to most, or have seen operating before? 3. Who did you identify with most in the video and why? 4. Who made you most uncomfortable in the video and why? 5. What are some ways in which we can disrupt white privilege?
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September 19th - Wednesday
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Video: WatchTransAmerica (available at Blockbuster or other video stores)
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DUE: Discussion Boards #2 on readings above - link in WebCT |
September 26th - Wednesday
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QUEERING THE SPECTRUM |
Reader: DUE by 6 p.m. - Questions Link #3 - link in WebCT
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September 29th - Saturday
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Please turn in your papers through www.turnitin.com
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Please make sure you are prepared (with books and notes, and a reliable internet connection) BEFORE logging in to the exam as you will be allowed ONLY ONE attempt at the exam.
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October 3rd - Wednesday |
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October 10th - Wednesday
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Sing, Whisper, Shout, Pray… Text
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October 13th - Saturday
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DUE by TODAY: Response Paper # 2 – On WAR. Please turn in your papers through www.turnitin.com Turnitin instructions |
Link to Walter Mosley article – An African American Appeal for Peace DUE: Discussion Boards #3 on readings above - link in WebCT |
| October 17th - Wednesday | THRIVING AT THE INTERSECTIONS Individual Papers DUE today by MIDNIGHT |
· Audre Lorde – The Erotic as Power
Overview and wrap up discussion for the class. |
| October 20th - Saturday | ONLINE TEST 2 to be accessed through the WebCT site.WebCT login |
Please make sure you are prepared (with books and notes, and a reliable internet connection) BEFORE logging in to the exam as you will be allowed ONLY ONE attempt at the exam. |