Assignment and Reading Schedule

Week 1	Description	Reading(s) Due	Assignment(s) Due
M   8/19	Introductions	N/A	N/A
W   8/21	Social Construction and Close Reading	Social Construction Lorber: Social Construction Of Gender Close Reading Guide	N/A
F    8/23	Close Reading for Gender Constructions and Bias	Riley’s Rant Bias Info/Media Bias Project Implicit: Take Harvard’s Gender/Career test	Bring children’s book you read as a kid! 🙂

Week 2	Description	Reading(s) Due	Assignment(s) Due
Su  8/25	Change-of-Course ends.
M  8/26	Close Reading for Gender Constructions and Bias	N/A	Draft: Mini Close Reading: Children’s Book
W  8/28	Researching Context	Inference – Critical Thought  Truth: Aint I a Woman? 19th Amendment Historical Context	Mini Close Reading: Children’s Book
F    8/30	RQ I: Invention Strategies	N/A

Week 3	Description	Reading(s) Due	Assignment(s) Due
M  9/2	Labor Day!  NO CLASS, NERDS!!!!	N/A	N/A
W  9/4	RQ I: Invention Workshop	Autoethnography Gibson: Warrior Dreams Beato: Culture Shock Curtis: Man Cave Masculinity	Research Quest I : Proposal
F    9/6	Structuring Your Close Reading into an Autoethnography	Structure of an Argument READ: Project I: Close Reading Heuristic	N/A

Week 4	Description	Reading(s) Due	Assignment(s) Due
M   9/9	Structuring Your Close Reading Continued	N/A	Research Quest I: Close Reading Heuristic
W  9/11	Thinking Through Examples of a Close Reading Autoethnography	In Class: Student Examples!	Have Fight Club
F    9/13	Invention Workshop	N/A	Full Draft of Research Quest  I: Autoethnography

Week 5	Description	Reading(s) Due	Assignment(s) Due
M   9/16	Reading Gender Commentary	N/A	Final Research Quest  I: Autoethnography
W   9/18	Reading Gender Commentary	Fight Club: Chapters 1-4	N/A
F    9/20	Reading Gender   Commentary	Fight Club: Chapters 5-10	N/A

Week 6	Description	Reading(s) Due	Assignment(s) Due
M   9/23	Reading Gender   Commentary	Fight Club: Finished	N/A
W   9/25	Socially Constructing Sexuality	How Homophobic Are you? Ross: Love on the March Rosen: Gay Stereotypes on TV Proulx: Brokeback Mountain	N/A
F    9/27	Relationship Between Legal and Cultural Constructions	Poddles: Love in the Trenches DADT: Legislative consturctions Don’t Ask Don’t Tell: One Year later – Take a look at a few videos!	N/A

Week 7	Description	Reading(s) Due	Assignment(s) Due
M   9/30	Begin Midterm Review		STUDY!
W   10/2	Finish Midterm Review		STUDY!
F    10/4	MIDTERM EXAM		STUDY ALL THE THINGS!!!!

Week 8	Description	Reading(s) Due	Assignment(s) Due
M   10/7	Fall Break!!!  OMG GO CRAZY!!!!	N/A	N/A
W   10/9	Race and Research	Onwuachi-Willig: Race and Racial Identity White Privilege: 29 – 38	Mini Racial Construction History
F    10/11	Race and Research	White Privilege: 71 – 89, 127 – 131, 45 – 55 Harriot: When the Irish Weren’t White Crosley: Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person	N/A

Week 9	Description	Reading(s) Due	Assignment(s) Due
M   10/14	Finding Primary Sources	Dear White People	N/A
W   10/16	Conference Sign Up	N/A	N/A
F    10/18	No Class: Conferences	N/A	Research Quest II: Proposal

Week 10	Description	Reading(s) Due	Assignment(s) Due
M   10/21	No Class: Conferences	N/A	Research Quest II: Proposal
W   10/23	No Class: Conferences	N/A	Research Quest II: Proposal
F    10/25	No Class: Conferences	N/A	Research Quest II: Proposal

Week 11	Description	Reading(s) Due	Assignment(s) Due
M   10/28	Scholarly Research Day/Analyzing a Student Response	The Social Identity of the African American Intellect	Research Quest II: Primary Source Close Reading
W   10/30	Underwater Dreams Film Viewing	White Privilege, 59 – 67 Trump, Campaign Comments  DACA Explained	N/A
F    11/1	Underwater Dreams Film Viewing	Bracero Project	N/A

Week 12	Description	Reading(s) Due	Assignment(s) Due
M   11/4	Analyzing Student Responses	The Ability To Speak Is Tradition an Excuse?	Research Quest II: Secondary Source Annotations
W   11/6	Workshop	N/A
F    11/8	Research Quest III: Case Study	Qualitative Research	Research Quest II:  Cultural Interrogation FULL DRAFT

Week 13	Description	Reading(s) Due	Assignment(s) Due
M   11/11	In class: Research Quest III: Proposal	N/A	Research Quest II:  Cultural Interrogation Final
W   11/13	Making Media Documentaries	N/A	N/A
F    11/15	Work Day	N/A	N/A

Week 14	Description	Reading(s) Due	Assignment(s) Due
M   11/18	Work Day	N/A	Research Quest III: Interview/Poll Questions
W   11/20	Presentation Sign Up	N/A	Draft: Research Quest III: Media Documentary
F    11/22	Final Work Day!	N/A	Evaluations

Week 15: 11/25 – 11/29 – NO CLASS!  Be thankful. 😀

Week 16	Description	Reading(s) Due	Assignment(s) Due
M   12/2	Presentations		Research Quest III: Presentation
W   12/4	Presentations		Research Quest III: Presentation
F    12/6	Presentations		Research Quest III: Presentation

Week 17	Description	Reading(s) Due	Assignment(s) Due
M   12/9	Presentations Goodbyes!		Research Quest III: Presentation

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