(Harvard University Press) --Thomas Laqueur, Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud (Harvard University Press) All other readings online at the Course Blog. On the course blog find readings, hints on writing your papers, cool links about gender and more Course Requirements: 1. Participation: Each student is expected to come to class having read the assigned readings and be able to discuss them. You are also expected to answer a question/bring something in to each class. Please put these on in the drop box of our class folder at: I will not accept any after the class itself since the point is to aid discussion. However, you only need to hand in 16 discussion responses (that means there are several days you can skip doing it and still receive full credit). Participation will constitute 20% of your grade. 2. Four Papers: These papers will be 3-5 typed pages plus citations and each paper will be worth 20% of your grade. Papers are due on the date listed in the syllabus. Please see advice on course you wanted to know about writing a paper for website “Everything Gender and the Body but were afraid to ask.” OR Three Papers & 1 Project: Instead of one paper, you can choose to do a project. The project should be some sort of cultural text (e.g. a comic book, short documentary, blog or vlog) that utilizes the readings in that section. This project can be individual or group, but must be cleared with me ahead of time (just send me an email- no formal proposal is necessary). Examples of previous projects include: a comic book of Judith Gender Trouble, Gender Trash, a zine of poetry and art in response to the Butler’s readings, and of gender presentations at Middlebury. You may do one project “vlogs” only- the rest of the assignments must be papers. Like papers, a project will count as 20% of your grade. A note on the importance of being here: I do not take attendance in class. I will never know if you are here or not except by the depth of your work. However, if you do come, then I expect you to be here. That means no computers- seriously. Feel free to take
(Harvard University Press) --Thomas Laqueur, Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud (Harvard University Press) All other readings online at the Course Blog. On the course blog find readings, hints on writing your papers, cool links about gender and more Course Requirements: 1. Participation: Each student is expected to come to class having read the assigned readings and be able to discuss them. You are also expected to answer a question/bring something in to each class. Please put these on in the drop box of our class folder at: I will not accept any after the class itself since the point is to aid discussion. However, you only need to hand in 16 discussion responses (that means there are several days you can skip doing it and still receive full credit). Participation will constitute 20% of your grade. 2. Four Papers: These papers will be 3-5 typed pages plus citations and each paper will be worth 20% of your grade. Papers are due on the date listed in the syllabus. Please see advice on course website “Everything you wanted to know about writing a paper for Gender and the Body but were afraid to ask.” OR Three Papers & 1 Project: Instead of one paper, you can choose to do a project. The project should be some sort of cultural text (e.g. a comic book, short documentary, blog or vlog) that utilizes the readings in that section. This project can be individual or group, but must be cleared with me ahead of time (just send me an email- no formal proposal is necessary). Examples of previous projects include: a comic book of Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble, Gender Trash, a zine of poetry and art in response to the readings, and “vlogs” of gender presentations at Middlebury. You may do one project only- the rest of the assignments must be papers. Like papers, a project will count as 20% of your grade. A note on the importance of being here: I do not take attendance in class. I will never know if you are here or not except by the depth of your work. However, if you do come, then I expect you to be here. That means no computers- seriously. Feel free to take