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Contemporary American Experience
Syllabus
Three ways to access readings:
RCG= Roberta Fiske-Rusciano and Virginia Cyrus, Experiencing Race, Class, and Gender (anthology is available at the UI Bookstore)
OL= Click on "Links" at left from our website Copy and bring to class with you.
Bold type indicates events taking place outside ordinary class times.
| Date | Required Reading | Events, Due Dates |
| T Mar 20 | Crash & Babel: Listening Across Borders | |
| W Mar 21 | 2nd Evening Meeting: Monica A. Schurtman, Professor of Law at the UI Law School and Raul M. Sanchez, Director of the Center for Human Rights at WSU, |
Wednesday, JEB 104, 7 pm |
| Th Mar 22 |
Getting started on the Women's Oral
History assignment (Quiz 3)
Gender and Power: Read Interview
with Harvard president Drew Gilpin Faust |
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| T Mar 27 | Gender Identity, RCG, 63-98 | Due: 2nd Topical Paper |
| T Mar 27 | Dr. Tricia Rose, feminist activist and scholar from Brown University, keynote speaker at the Women's Center annual Virginia Wolf Distinguished Service Award ceremony, "The Female Matrix: How Hidden Gender Inequalities Shape Women's Lives" | Extra Credit #1
SUB Gold Room, noon, free, but registration appreciated |
| Th Mar 29 | Gender Identity |
Due: 2nd Response Paper |
| April 1-4 | Borah Symposium: Women, War & Peace | Extra Credit #2 |
| T April 3 | Sexual Identity, RCG, 99-126 | Due: Extra Credit paper #1 |
| Th April 5 | Sexual Identity | |
| T April 10 |
Power & Sexism, RCG, 292-343 |
Due: Extra Credit paper #2 |
| Th April 12 | Women's Oral Histories: In class discussion of women's oral histories | Due: Quiz 3 (Women's Oral Histories) |
| T April 17 | Paul Loeb, The Impossible Will Take A Little While. Visit Loeb's website at: http://www.paulloeb.org/newimp/impindex.htm | |
| W April 18 | 3rd Evening Meeting: Joan Opyr, novelist, and Melynda Huskey, Assistant Vice President for Research, Assessment, and Initiatives, Equity and Diversity at WSU, JEB 104 at 7 pm | Wednesday, JEB 104, 7 p.m. |
| Th April 19 | Paul Loeb, The Impossible (Presentations of fist reading) | Due: Final Project Proposal |
| T April 24 | Paul Loeb, The Impossible (Presentations of second reading) | Due: 3rd Response Paper |
| Th April 26 | Work period for presentations; no class meeting this day | |
| T May 1 | Presentations | Due: News Notebook |
| Th May 3 | Presentations | Due: Project & Paper |
| W, May 9 | Final Meeting, projects returned | Wednesday, 12:30 |