Date |
What
we're doing |
Readings
& Things Due |
| August 30th |
Introduction to the
class – to key concepts – and to each other
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Meet ONLINE @ 7 p.m.
Try and post your introductions on the link in WebCT's BEFORE logging in to the online classroom chat.
Introductions - link is available in WebCT
EMAIL: I will be emailing students in this class on their CSUN account. You are responsible to check that account regularly. If you do not use that account often, please go to the ITR website or call the CSUN Helpdesk [x1400] and learn how to forward mail from your CSUN account so that you get the class communications regularly.
Online Responses to Introductions link in WebCT
Due
by September 2nd, 2005 - Midnight.
Instructions on how to access link: Discussion Boards
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September 6th
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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 @ 7 p.m.
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
Discussion Board on readings above - link is available in WebCT
Questions & Current Events Link - link is available in WebCT
Instructions on how to access link: Discussion Boards
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| Please post to Discussion Boards & Questions link by MIDNIGHT on:
September
13th
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REDEFINING DIFFERENCE:
WHITE PRIVILEGE
Video at Library: Color of Fear.
This video will be reserved under this number: 84657
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NO synchronous online chat TODAY
Sing, Whisper, Shout, Pray… Text
· Sec II – Merle Woo – Josephine and me – p.221-230
· 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)
Discussion Board for Readings above - link is available in WebCT
Questions & Current Events Link - link is available in WebCT
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| September 20th |
REDEFINING DIFFERENCE: WHITE PRIVILEGE
Online Links:
Peggy McIntosh Article
Video at Library: Color of Fear.
This video will be reserved under this number: 84657 |
Meet ONLINE @ 7 p.m.
Sing, Whisper, Shout, Pray… Text
· Sec III – Multiplicity – p. 340-341 [poem]
· Sec III – Susan Shown Harjo, “What do you want to be called?” – p.288-290
Reader:
· Peggy McIntosh – White Privilege and Male Privilege (also available online)
· Jo Carrillo – And When You Leave, Take Your Pictures With You [poem]
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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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Please post to Discussion Boards & Questions link by MIDNIGHT on:
September 27th
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QUEERING THE SPECTRUM
DUE:
Autoethnography Paper #1 – On RACE
Please turn in your papers through
www.turnitin.com
Turnitin instructions
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NO synchronous online chat TODAY.
Sing, Whisper, Shout, Pray… Text
· Sec III – Multiplicity – p. 340-341 [poem]
· Sec III – Grace Poore - Three movements in a minor – p. 372-377
Reader
· Spargo: Foucault and Queer Theory. (Pp. 3-33).
· Hooks – Homophobia in Black communities
Discussion Board for Readings above - link is available in WebCT
Questions & Current Events Link - link is available in WebCT
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| October 4th
|
QUEERING THE SPECTRUM |
Meet ONLINE @ 7 p.m.
Reader
· Judith Butler: Imitation and gender insubordination
· Amanda Udis-Kessler: Biphobia as a Crisis of Meaning
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| October 11th |
ONLINE EXAM 1 to be accessed through the WebCT site.
WebCT login |
Your Online Exam #1 will be available from 7-9 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 EXAM" 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. 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.
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October 18th
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INTERSECTIONS OF CLASS & POWER
Video at Library: Dam/Age
This video will be reserved under this number: 86365
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Meet ONLINE @ 7 p.m.
Reader:
· Arundathi Roy - The reincarnation of Rumpelstillskin
· Patricia J. Williams – Of race and risk
· Donna Langston – Tired of Playing Monopoly?
· Barbara Ehrenreich – The Silenced Majority
· Gar Alperovitz – Tax the Plutocrats
· Suniti Namjoshi – Magpie
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Please post to Discussion Boards & Questions link by MIDNIGHT on:
October 25th
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THEORY IN THE FLESH: Nation, Immigration and Resistance along the Intersections.
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NO synchronous online chat TODAY
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
Discussion Board for Readings above - - link is available in WebCT
Questions & Current Events Link - - link is available in WebCT
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| November 1st |
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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NO synchronous online chat TODAY
Sing, Whisper, Shout, Pray… Text
· Sec I: Rosalind Pechesky – Phantom Towers… - p. 15
· Sec I: Lisa Albrecht – From the First Intifada to the Second Intifada – p. 103
· Sec I: Anonymous – Lurching through these frightening days – p. 116
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.
Questions & Current Events Link - link is available in WebCT
Discussion Board on Readings Above - link is available in WebCT
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| November 8th |
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
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MEET ONLINE @ 7 p.m.
Sing, Whisper, Shout, Pray… Text
· Sec I: Suheir Hammad – First writing since - p.3
· Sec I: Barbara Lee – I’ve seen this war before – p. 13
· Sec III – Joanna Kadi – “Letter to Hassan” – p. 291-292
Online
Link to Roy article: Instant Mix Imperial Democracy
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| November 15th |
Note: You can send me your links to your Group Projects in ADVANCE today ... if you need any help on them.
However, they are only officially due on the 28th |
MEET ONLINE @ 7 p.m.
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]
Questions & Current Events Link - link is available in WebCT
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| November 22nd |
THEORY IN THE FLESH: Nation, Immigration and Resistance along the Intersections.
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MEET ONLINE or in person @ 7 p.m. -- work in groups
Group meeting time - work on projects. This class time is to be used by you to work in your groups on the group projects that are due by Monday, November 28th.
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| November 28th (Monday) |
Group projects are
DUE on November 28th (Monday):
Links to your Group projects should be posted through the forum on the right. (Please also email a copy of them to me directly). |
Please post your group presentation links by midnight on Monday, November 28th here:
Group Presentations
- Juarez group presentation |
| November 29th |
ONLINE EXAM 2 to be accessed through the WebCT site.
WebCT login
Presentations
Individual Papers DUE
Please turn in your papers through
www.turnitin.com
Turnitin instructions |
Your Online Exam #2 will be available from 7-9 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 EXAM" 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. 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 1 hour to complete it. Please budget your time accordingly.
Please turn in your papers through
www.turnitin.com
Turnitin instructions
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December 6th
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Please visit all the group project links online before we meet. |
Meet ONLINE @ 7 p.m.
Wrap up discussion for the class. |