GWS 350 OL - Class Schedule

May 26th - Wednesday

Meet ONLINE @ 7 p.m.

Access online chats here through Elluminate

INTRODUCTION to the class - to key concepts - and to each other

Introductions - link in Moodle

Online Responses to Introductions link in Moodle by May 27th @ 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.

Instructions on how to access link: Forums

May 27th - Thursday

Shifting the Center: Theory in the Flesh

Asynchronous work

QL #1 (Questions Link) - link in Moodle

... is due for these readings by midnight - May 30th (Sunday)

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

June 2nd - Wednesday

Redefining Difference: White Privilege

Meet ONLINE @ 7 p.m.

Access online chats here through Elluminate

Watch video BEFORE class: The Color of Fear

It is available through the CSUN library - or online

Online:

• Peggy McIntosh: White Privilege and Male Privilege (also available online)
• Obama's Race Speech

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)

June 6th - Sunday

Redefining Difference: White Privilege

Complete Forum #1

Forum #1 - link in Moodle

Do these readings BEFORE working on the Forum.

Reader:

• Jo Carrillo - And When You Leave, Take Your Pictures With You [poem]
• Obama's Race Speech

Sing, Whisper Shout Pray... Text

• Sec II - Merle Woo - Josephine and me (221-230)
• Sec III - Susan Shown Harjo - "What do you want to be called?" (288-290)
• Sec IV - Sheri Scott - Stolen Memory (546-555)

June 9th - Wednesday

Queering the Spectrum

Meet ONLINE @ 7 p.m.

Access online chats here through Elluminate

Watch For The Bible Tells Me So BEFORE class today.

QL #2 (Questions Link) - link in Moodle

QL #2 is DUE by 7 p.m. today

DUE: Auto-Ethnography paper on RACE

Reader:

• Spargo: Foucault and Queer Theory. (Pp. 3-33)
• Judith Butler: Imitation and Gender Insubordination
• Amanda Udis-Kessler: Biphobia as a Crisis of Meaning

Online

• Prop 8: Formal arguments & rebuttals
• Basic facts on Prop 8
• Courage Campaign
• Prop 8 trial tracker

Read description of Prop 8 Forum due by Sunday, June 13th, and begin posting to it after today's class.

June 13th - Sunday

Queering the Spectrum

Complete Prop 8 Forum

Prop 8 Forum - link in Moodle. Complete the readings to the right and incorporate them and the readings from June 9th into your posts.

Prop 8 Forum is DUE by midnight tonight.

Reader:

• Hooks: Homophobia in Black Communities

Sing, Whisper Shout Pray... Text

• Sec III: Grace Poore - Three movements in a minor (372-377)
• Sec III - Multiplicity [poem] (340-341)

There is a different kind of Forum due today. I have created a Prop 8 Forum... where you can write through some of your analysis ... utilizing the readings from this week and from September 22nd to support your point and where you can post links to outside resources on the subject, etc.

In order to get credit for this Forum... you must do an Original Post (2-3 paragraphs) at least once... and then respond to at least two more of your classmates posts. However, I encourage you to use this Forum to really dialogue with each other - always with respect - and to bring together good resources for people on Prop 8. In order to do this well, you should be starting to post to this board from June 9th onwards... and return to it a couple of times over the week.

June 16th - Wednesday

The Racial and Gendered aspects of War

Meet ONLINE @ 7 p.m.

Access online chats here through Elluminate

Watch Hidden Wars of Desert Storm before class.

QL #3 (Questions Link) - link in Moodle

QL #3 is DUE by 7 p.m. today

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(103)
• Sec I: Anonymous- Lurching through these frightening days (116)

Online

• Link to Roy article: Instant Mix Imperial Democracy

June 20th - Sunday

Complete Forum #2

Turn in Anti-War Paper

Forum #2 - link in Moodle

Do these readings BEFORE working on the Forum.

DUE: Anti-War Paper by midnight

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)
• Sec III – Joanna Kadi - Letter to Hassan (p.291-292)

Online

• Link to Walter Mosley article – An African American Appeal for Peace

June 22nd - Tuesday

Asynchronous Work

Forum #3 DUE

Watch Dam/Age before doing forum

Forum #3 - link in Moodle

Do these readings & watch video BEFORE working on the Forum.

Reader

• Arundathi Roy - The reincarnation of Rumpelstillskin
• Patricia J. Williams - Of race and risk
• Donna Langston - Tired of Playing Monopoly?
• Suniti Namjoshi - Magpie
• Gar Alperovitz - Tax the Plutocrats
• Barbara Ehrenreich - The Silenced Majority

June 23rd - Wednesday

NO ONLINE meeting today.

Online Exam today

From 7-9 p.m.

Exam Link - availale through Moodle

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 EXAM" link once you log in to the Moodle 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.

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.

June 27th - Sunday

Asynchronous work

DUE: Group projects.

Please email me the link to your group project AND post it on Moodle

June 30th - Wednesday

Meet ONLINE @ 7 p.m.

Access online chats here through Elluminate

QL #4 (Questions Link) - link in Moodle

QL #4 is DUE by 7 p.m. today

DUE: Individual Papers

Online

• Aimee Carrillo Rowe - My Spine - Power Lines -- PLEASE access through link in Moodle.

Reader

• Audre Lorde – The Erotic as Power
• Bell hooks – Love as the practice of freedom
• Audre Lorde – The Art of Response [poem]