GWS 350 OL - Winter Class Schedule

December 23rd - Thursday

INTRODUCTION to the class - and to each other

Introductions - link in Moodle

Instructions on how to access link: Forums

Online Responses to Introductions link in Moodle by December 23rd @ 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 often (almost daily) -- or go to the ITR website to arrange for mail forwarding to an email account that you DO check.

This first day of the course may be used to familiarize yourself with the course, get the reader, sign up for Ms. online, and post your profile. I have spent a fair amount of time designing the course so information is easily accessible. Please take some time to read through the syllabus and schedule for the course.

Readings

• Cherrie Moraga: "La Guera" - This piece was written about 30 years ago, and yet it contains some profound truths that we will be referencing throughout this course. Please read it with care, and as you are reading it, please highlight key quotes. We will be returning to this reading later.

Ms. - login to Ms. and flip through the latest issue of the magazine. Find one quote from the magazine, and include it in your introductory post. Tell us why you picked that quote and why it resonates for you (Please don't forget to include the citation for the quote you choose).

Dec 27th - Monday

Shifting the Center: Theory in the Flesh

QL #1 (Quote Link) - link in Moodle

... is due for these readings by midnight - Dec 27th

Readings in Reader

• Donna Kate Rushin: The Bridge Poem [poem]
• Nellie Wong: When I was Growing Up [poem]
• Audre Lorde: Age, race, class and sex: Women redefining difference

December 29th- Wednesday

Redefining Difference: White Privilege

Watch video BEFORE doing forums: The Color of Fear

It is available through the CSUN library - or online

QL #2 (Quote Link) - link in Moodle

... is due for these readings by midnight - Dec 29th

Readings Online & on Ms.

• Peggy McIntosh: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack (also known as the article on White Privilege and Male Privilege)
• Mab Segrest, On Being White and Other Lies

• “Intersections” by Bonnie Thornton Dill
  Ms. Magazine Online (Spring 2009), p. 65

December 30th- Thursday

Redefining Difference: White Privilege

Complete Forum #1

Forum #1 - link in Moodle

Do these readings BEFORE working on the Forum. Forum 1 is on the readings from this week and previous weeks.

Readings in Reader, Online & Ms.

• Jo Carrillo - And When You Leave, Take Your Pictures With You [poem]

• Obama's Race Speech

• “Ana’s Choice” by Patricia Zavella
  Ms. Magazine Online (Winter 2009), 46-49.

Jan 3rd - Monday

Queering the Spectrum

Watch For The Bible Tells Me So before doing the Quote Link and Forum.

QL #3 (Quote Link) - link in Moodle

... is due for these readings by Jan 3rd midnight.

DUE: Auto-Ethnography paper on RACE

Readings - in Reader

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

Jan 5th- Wednesday

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 Jan 3rd into your posts.

Prop 8 Forum is DUE by midnight tonight.

Readings Online & Ms.

• “The State(s) of Same-Sex Marriage: California and Massachusetts lead the way in challenging state and federal bans” by Audrey Bilger, Ms. Magazine. Fall 2010 issue. p. 12-13

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

I have created a Prop 8 Forum... where you can write through some of your analysis ... utilizing the readings from this week and from January 3rd 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.

Also, investigate iinformation on the repeal of "Don't Ask Don't Tell." How will the repeal of DADT impact issues like Prop 8?

Jan 7th- Friday

The Racial and Gendered aspects of War

Complete Forum #2

Forum #2 - link in Moodle

Do these readings BEFORE working on the Forum.

I have listed a couple of OPTIONAL videos in the Video Link. They might be useful for your paper on the subject.

Readings Online

• Suheir Hammad - First writing since [poem]
• Watch YouTube video of Suheir Hammad's poetry
• Barbara Lee - I've seen this war before

• Link to Roy article: Instant Mix Imperial Democracy
• Rosalind Pechesky - Phantom Towers
• Ann Russo - Feminist Majority

The recent controversy on the Islamic Center/Mosque

Consider the recent controversy in light of the readings above. Presented below are two news "commentaries" on the issue delivered from the Left and the Right. Please watch these news clips and include them in Forum 2.

• Fox clipfile
• MSNBC clip

Jan 10th - Monday

Class at the Intersections

Watch Dam/Age before doing forum

Forum #3 DUE

Forum #3 - link in Moodle

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

DUE: Anti-War Paper by midnight

Readings in Reader

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

Ms.

• “Paycheck Feminism” by Karen Kornbluh and Rachel Homer. Ms. Magazine Online (Fall 2009), p. 28-33
• “How We Are Doing: Minding the Gap: Single Women of Color still face the dual burdens of economic racism and sexism,” Spring 2010, p. 11
• "When state budgets are cut, guess which programs bite the dust” by Katie Farden, Fall 2009, p. 15 – 16.

Jan 12th - Wednesday

QL #4 (Quote Link) - link in Moodle

... is due by midnight on Jan 12th.

Readings Online

• Aimee Carrillo Rowe - My Spine - Power Lines
• “Feminism in a Mad World” by Aviva Dove-VieBahn - Ms. Magazine Online (Summer 2010).
• “Sexist Advertising, Then and Now” by Jean Kilbourne. Ms. Magazine Online (Summer 2010), p. 32-3
• “Visions for Change” by Eleanor Smeal. Ms. Magazine Online (Winter 2009), p. 34-3

Social Change: Revisioning the Future and Making a Difference

QL #5 (Quote Link) - link in Moodle

... is due by midnight on Jan 14th.

Readings in Reader

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

Jan 17th - Monday

Online Exam today

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.

January 19th - Wednesday

DUE: Blog projects.

DUE: Individual Papers
-- also due by midnight (submit on Turnitin via Moodle).

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

January 20th - Thursday

DUE: Comments on Blog Project Forum.

Please look at each other's blog projects, and post comments to the project's forum on at least 3 of the projects.