Date |
What
we're doing |
Readings
& Things Due |
| August 28th - Tuesday |
INTRODUCTION to the
class – to key concepts – and to each other
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Meet
ONLINE @ 2 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.
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September 4th -
Tuesday
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SHIFTING THE CENTER
- THEORY IN THE FLESH: WOMEN OF COLOR EXPERIENCE & IDENTITIES
Video
at Library: A Place of Rage
This
video will be reserved under this number: 83400
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Meet
ONLINE @ 2 p.m.
Access online chats here through WebCT
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 2 p.m. - Questions Link #1 - link in WebCT
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September 11th - Tuesday
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SHIFTING THE CENTER
- THEORY IN THE FLESH: WOMEN OF COLOR EXPERIENCE & IDENTITIES |
Discussion Boards.
NO synchronous chat today.
Please post your Discussion Boards [DB's] by midnight tonight.
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:
· Jo Carrillo – And When You Leave, Take Your Pictures With You [poem]
DUE: Discussion Boards #1 on readings above - link in WebCT
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| September 18th - Tuesday |
REDEFINING DIFFERENCE:
WHITE PRIVILEGE
Video at Library: Color of Fear.
This video will be reserved under this number: 84657
Online Links:
Peggy McIntosh
Article
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Meet
ONLINE @ 2 p.m.
Access online chats here through WebCT
Reader:
· Peggy McIntosh – White Privilege and Male Privilege (also available online)
Sing, Whisper, Shout, Pray… Text
· Sec III - Mab Segrest, On Being White and Other Lies (243-286)
· Sec IV - June Rostan, Inside-Out and Upside-Down:(505-510)
· Sec IV - Sheri Scott, Stolen Memory (546-555)
DUE by 2 p.m. - Questions Link #2 - link in WebCT
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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 25th - Tuesday
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QUEERING THE SPECTRUM
Video: WatchTransAmerica (available at Blockbuster or other video stores)
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Meet
ONLINE @ 2 p.m.
Access online chats here through WebCT
Reader:
· Spargo: Foucault and Queer Theory. (Pp. 3-33).
· Judith Butler: Imitation and gender insubordination
· Amanda Udis-Kessler: Biphobia as a Crisis of Meaning
DUE by 2 p.m. - Questions Link #3 - link in WebCT
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October 2nd - Tuesday
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QUEERING THE SPECTRUM |
Discussion Boards.
NO synchronous chat today.
Please post your Discussion Boards [DB's] by midnight tonight.
Sing, Whisper, Shout, Pray… Text
· Sec III – Grace Poore - Three movements in a minor – p. 372-377
· Sec III – Multiplicity – p. 340-341 [poem]
Reader:
· Hooks – Homophobia in Black communities
DUE: Discussion Boards #2 on readings above - link in WebCT
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October 9th - Tuesday
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ONLINE TEST 1 to be accessed through the WebCT site. WebCT login
DUE: Autoethnography Paper #1 – On RACE
Please turn in your papers through www.turnitin.com
Turnitin instructions
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Your Online Test 1 will be available from 2-4 p.m. TODAY.
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.
You can access the exam by clicking on the "GRCS ONLINE TEST 1 " link once you log in to the WebCT class site (link on left).
The exam consists of Multiple Choice questions and Essay questions that will draw on the readings, class discussions and videos upto September 26th. You will be expected to demonstrate through your answers that you have engaged with the materials in a meaningful way and made connections between different texts.
You will have be timed. Please budget your time according to exam length.
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October 16th - Tuesday |
INTERSECTIONS OF CLASS & POWER
Video at Library: Dam/Age
This video will be reserved under this number: 86365
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Discussion Boards.
NO synchronous chat today.
Please post your Discussion Boards [DB's] by midnight on the 23rd (at the latest).
Reader:
· Gar Alperovitz – Tax the Plutocrats
· Suniti Namjoshi – Magpie
· Barbara Ehrenreich – The Silenced Majority
DUE: Discussion Boards #3 on readings above - link in WebCT. These DB's include readings that are now due on October 23rd. So make sure you read Roy, Williams and Langston before answering them. You can have until Oct 23rd midnight to turn them in.
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| October 23rd - Tuesday |
INTERSECTIONS OF CLASS & POWER
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Meet
ONLINE @ 2 p.m.
Access online chats here through WebCT.
Reader:
· Arundathi Roy - The reincarnation of Rumpelstillskin
· Patricia J. Williams – Of race and risk
· Donna Langston – Tired of Playing Monopoly?
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October 30th - Tuesday
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THE RACIAL AND GENDERED ASPECTS OF WAR – SPECIAL FOCUS
Video at Library – Hidden Wars of Dessert Storm
This video will be reserved under this number: 10338
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Discussion Boards.
NO synchronous chat today.
Please post your Discussion Boards [DB's] by midnight tonight.
Sing, Whisper, Shout, Pray… Text
· Sec I: Suheir Hammad – First writing since - p.3
· Sec I: Lisa Albrecht – From the First Intifada to the Second Intifada – p. 103
· Sec I: Anonymous – Lurching through these frightening days – p. 116
· Sec III – Joanna Kadi – “Letter to Hassan” – p. 291-292
Available Online
Link to Roy article: Instant Mix Imperial Democracy
DUE: Discussion Boards #4 on readings above - link in WebCT
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| November 6th - Tuesday |
THE RACIAL AND GENDERED ASPECTS OF WAR – SPECIAL FOCUS
DUE by TODAY: Response Paper # 2 – On WAR.
Please turn in your papers through www.turnitin.com
Turnitin instructions |
Meet
ONLINE @ 2 p.m.
Access online chats here through WebCT
Sing, Whisper, Shout, Pray… Text
· Sec I: Barbara Lee – I’ve seen this war before – p. 13
· Sec I: Rosalind Pechesky – Phantom Towers… - p. 15
Available Online
Link to Walter Mosley article – An African American Appeal for Peace
Extra Credit Opportunity: Watch Farenheit 9/11 and write a one page reaction to it -- DUE by November 13th. Please turn in your paper through www.turnitin.com
DUE by 2 p.m. - Questions Link #4 - link in WebCT
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November 13th - Tuesday
[Sheena @ NCA] |
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 #5 on readings above - link in WebCT
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November 20th - Tuesday
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THEORY IN THE FLESH: Nation, Immigration and Resistance along the Intersections.
DUE: Group projects.
Please email your group presentation links to me by midnight TODAY.
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Meet
ONLINE @ 2 p.m.
Access online chats here through WebCT
Reader:
· Audre Lorde – The Erotic as Power
· Bell hooks – Love as the practice of freedom
· Audre Lorde – The Art of Response [poem]
· Marge Piercy – The Low Road [poem]
DUE by 2 p.m. - Questions Link #5 - link in WebCT
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November 27th - Tuesday
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ONLINE TEST 2 to be accessed through the WebCT site.WebCT login |
Your Online Test 2 will be available from 2-4 p.m. TODAY.
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.
You can access the exam by clicking on the "GRCS ONLINE TEST 2 " link once you log in to the WebCT class site (link on left).
The exam consists of Multiple Choice questions and Essay questions that will draw on the readings, class discussions and videos from October 16th onwards. You will be expected to demonstrate through your answers that you have engaged with the materials in a meaningful way and made connections between different texts.
You will be timed. Please budget your time according to exam length.
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December 4th - Tuesday
|
Individual Papers DUE
Please turn in your papers through
www.turnitin.com
Turnitin instructions
|
Meet
ONLINE @ 2 p.m.
Access online chats here through WebCT
Please visit the group projects BEFORE logging in to class today.
Group Links:
1. Katrina Group: http://web.mac.com/yoginimorena/Womens_Studies_Group_Project/Katrina_Homepage.html
2. Human Trafficking Group: http://mynameisgiedre.googlepages.com
3. Minorities in the Media Group: http://jlangille827.googlepages.com/home
4. War on Terror Group: www.shanemartin.net/wot.html
5. Waves of feminism group: 1st2nd3rdwavefeminism.blogspot.com
6. Dissabilities group: http://ws350disabilities.blogspot.com/
Overview and wrap up discussion for the class. |
