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YOU CAN DOWNLOAD EXPERIENCE SET ONE AS A PDF HERE
YOU CAN DOWNLOAD EXPERIENCE SET TWO AS A PDF HERE
YOU CAN DOWNLOAD EXPERIENCE SET THREE AS A PDF HERE
YOU CAN DOWNLOAD EXPERIENCE SET FOUR AS A PDF HERE
YOU CAN DOWNLOAD LOGBOOK FORMAT AS A CUSTOMIZABLE .DOCX FILE HERE
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YOU CAN DOWNLOAD EXPERIENCE SET ONE AS A PDF HERE
YOU CAN DOWNLOAD EXPERIENCE SET TWO AS A PDF HERE
YOU CAN DOWNLOAD EXPERIENCE SET THREE AS A PDF HERE
YOU CAN DOWNLOAD EXPERIENCE SET FOUR AS A PDF HERE
YOU CAN DOWNLOAD LOGBOOK FORMAT AS A CUSTOMIZABLE .DOCX FILE HERE
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Notice
that presentations are an essential part of most assignments, necessary
in order to receive credit for the assignment. That means you must build into
your understanding of each one the idea that anything written is not all that
is necessary to complete your work and to get credit for it. If an emergency or
illness kept you from participation in presentations, to get full credit you
will have to meet with three other students to share your work and their work
outside class, and write up the experience and what you learned from it to
complete the presentation portion and to get your grade. SO DO NOT MAKE OTHER
PLANS FOR THOSE DAYS ON WHICH ASSIGNMENTS ARE DUE: BUILD THEM CAREFULLY INTO
YOUR SCHEDULE FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE TERM! 30 SEPTEMBER FOR TUESDAY’S SEMINAR,
21 OCTOBER FOR TUESDAY’S SEMINAR, THE WEEK OF 18 NOVEMBER FOR BOTH TU AND TH
SEMINARS, AND THE LAST WEEK OF CLASS, 9 & 11 DECEMBER. Put these into your
logbook from the beginning so that attending them will always be at the
forefront of your term plans.
Reading, Writing, Assignment Schedule
Readings
are of several sorts: some will be discussed in depth in class or section, some
will help you with each assignment, some are background reading to enrich
discussion and class experiences. You will need to faithfully complete all to
do assignments well, especially the final learning analysis.
<<<EXPERIENCE SET ONE: WHOSE ART IS IT? HOW DO YOU KNOW?>>>
Tuesday, 2 September – Welcome to
our course!
• Bring in as many
course books as you have so far
• Bookmark the course
website, be sure you are receiving coursemail
• Check out which section
you are in and meet your TA
• Learn how to do
Ass. #1: SEE COURSE SITE TAB: 1:MUSEUMS
We jump right into the thick of it all! Today we will met each other,
make some class buddies, learn about the books for the course, and think about
how to use the course website. Katie, Sara, and Cheyenne will introduce
themselves. We will talk about how the class is structured as a series of
experiences. And we will start immediately with experience #1 – your museum
visits and what to do! It all starts right away and you should make plans for
museum visits NOW!
Tuesday, 9 September – Women’s
Studies, what is it about?
• Bring in our
book-museum,
Pérez’ book, Chicana Art.
• You are encouraged to
bring in laptops or other electronic devices. How will we use them in class?
• What is Web Action? How
will we activate it?
• Start finding the
artists in Perez on the Web. Bring in an example to share.
Women’s Studies is a scholarly field, a range of feminist actions, a
set of issues that matter to women, an analysis of power and knowledge, and an
intersectional intervention into dominant social structures. Our class is an
introduction into all of these, by way of engaging the interrelationships
between Women, Art, and Culture. How will we use Perez to help us care about it
all?
WEEK OF 16 SEPTEMBER—NO CLASS SO
YOU CAN HAVE TIME TO VISIT MORE MUSEUMS!
You should have started the museum assignment already, already
visiting and doing what you can during these hectic first weeks of classes. But
we will not meet this whole week to give you as much room to complete it all as
we can!! The assignment is due TUESDAY
30 SEPTEMBER!
Tuesday, 23 September – Why is
art a political issue at all?
• You should have
read Freeland, Chs 4,5,7 by today and be prepared to discuss!
• Check out
Freeland’s website: http://www.uh.edu/~cfreelan/ What sort of passionate
thinker is she?
How will we activate web action to see how alive and dynamic women’s
studies’ concerns are? That they involve people of passion individually and in
groups? What is your stake in all this? How might it matter to you and to those
you care about? You will be telling us about your museum experiences next week!
Mentally prepare yourself to talk in class! Notice the Freeland readings for
next week too!
Tuesday, 30 September – What
counts as art? What counts as feminism? For whom?
• DUE ASS. #1: Museums & More: logbook 1 + hardcopy in
class; electronic copies in TA dropbox
• finish up Freeland!
• finish up Freeland!
Reports, thoughts, analysis of our first class experiences, the museum
visits. What assumptions altered as you got involved here? What was surprising?
What insights about feminisms emerged? What was new? What was exciting and fun?
Where will this beginning take us this semester? What sort of journey have you
begun? How will Freeland guide us? The more Freeland you have read, the better!
<<<EXPERIENCE SET TWO: ACTIVISMS, MOVEMENTS, WOMEN’S STUDIES>>>
Tuesday, 7 October – The F-word?
Steps to taking Action
• Read Reed, Ch 3 & 4
• choose your 5th
book with Thursday seminar group this week and make sure your EVENT is up and
running!
• what else do you need to
consider for Ass. #2?
These readings with Reed are the
beginning of the experience that culminates in Assignment #2: your group’s
event, flyer, and collective definition of feminism. What do we learn about
Women’s Studies as we go about deciding on a fifth book? Why is feminism
defined collectively, in our project and in the world? Each feminist speaks
from several collective locations. What are yours? Which collective locations
might matter the most to you? To people you care about? To people you don’t
know? What does taking action
mean in Women’s Studies?
Tuesday, 14 October – The Art of
Protest
• Read Reed Intro, Ch 1-2,
and look over the whole book as an event itself!
• Examine Reed’s book
website: http://art-of-protest.net/tvreedhome.html
• Check out his teaching
site: http://libarts.wsu.edu/english/TV%20Reed.html
• Look at his cultural
politics resources: http://culturalpolitics.net/about
What sort of “art” is protest? How do social movements create culture?
Which social movements do you know the most about? Which ones would you like to
learn more about? Which arts have engaged the feminist issues you care about
most? How do you know? How is women’s studies involved?
Tuesday, 21 October – Raising
our Consciousness: What is Feminism?
DUE ASS. #2: feminist event project elements & logbook 2
Everyone will say something today! Everyone should be in class today,
working with their group, and talking about the experiences that coalesce
around this set of projects. Prepare with your group before hand so that your
group’s presentation will allow everyone to be introduced and talk about
feminist process and CR, and discuss how definitions of feminism entail
collective action. See the Assignment TAB 2:Event for specifics for preparation!
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<<<EXPERIENCE SET THREE: INTERSECTIONAL ART ACTIVISMS & IDENTITIES>>>
Tuesday, 28 October – self-aware, questing, problem-solving flesh
• Check out the
art-activist online project on microagressions: http://www.microaggressions.com
• Butler, the whole book by
now
• Note Butler’s
description on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavia_E._Butler
• Read about Earthseed on
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthseed
Note the link there to an
interview with Butler.
From the book: “We are Earthseed. We are flesh---self-aware,
questing, problem-solving flesh. We are that
aspect of Earthlife best able to shape God
knowingly. We are Earthlife maturing, Earthlife
preparing to fall away from the parent world.
We are Earthlife preparing to take root in
new ground, Earthlife fulfilling its purpose,
its promise, its Destiny.”
Tuesday, 4 November – Whose Worlds? Intersectionality
and multiple identities
• Read Reed 5 and 8.
• Read two chapters from
the book 5 you chose.
What connections do you make among your readings for this week? Art
and social movements can speak powerfully about the worlds we live in, the
differences among worlds created by uneven power and social structures, the
forms of oppression and privilege that identities entail, and the histories in
which some groups thrive at the expense of others. How does intersectionality
help us understand these complexities? How do we live as individuals and as
groups at the intersections?
Tuesday, 11 November – Altar, Alter – Self, Other
• Look at artists in
Perez, Ch 3. Pick the artwork that speaks to you most. Read about it in Perez.
• Read Perez, Conclusion
• Read another chapter
from the book 5 you chose.
Self and Other, Otherings of various kinds are political and power
transactions with implications for social justice. Perez is interested in how
people survive oppression through art and spirit, creating culture and meaning,
and “politicizing spirituality.” What are the implications for
intersectionality? What feminisms are vibrant here? How do your readings
intertwine among art-activisms?
Tuesday, 18 November – Offerings
• Look at artists in
Perez, Ch1&5. Pick the artwork that speaks to you most. Read about it.
• DUE ASS. #3: Intersectional project & logbook 3;
Today we will learn about each other’s projects in a poster-session
style event!
EXPERIENCE SET FOUR: FEMINISM IS FOR EVERYBODY
Tuesday, 25 November – NO CLASS but there is viewing
to do online!
STEINEM & HOOKS VIDEO see link below (scroll down): this great conversation
is all about just how feminism is for everybody. Be sure you have watched ALL
of it by now! Watch it again and again! J
• Note hooks description
on the Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_hooks
• Her professional site: http://www.berea.edu/appalachian-center/home/faculty-and-staff/bell-hooks/
• Note Steinem description
on the Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Steinem
• Her professional site: http://www.gloriasteinem.com
Tuesday, 2 December – Visions for Justice
• Look over any stuff in Reed, Perez, Freeland you
haven’t gotten to yet
• If possible finish up your book 5 or at least read
an additional chapter.
• Refresh your memory after having read Butler
What are all these
books about now you’ve worked with both and done projects that tie you into the
insights they want to share with us? How do they each speak to the idea that
feminism is for everybody? What feminist worlds do they open? Which aspects of
Women’s Studies do you glimpse from these? How do they offer versions of
intersectionality, feminist identities, visions of social justice?
Tuesday, 2 December – Sharing Feminisms – LAST DAY!
• DUE ASS. #4: Final redrafted and edited version of your
Learning Analysis: logbook 4 + hardcopy in class; electronic copies to TA –
REMEMBER YOU WON’T GET CREDIT FOR ANY WORK IN THE COURSE WITHOUT TURNING IN
LOGBOOK 4!
Our class will share learning analyses today in class. You must be
present to get credit for this assignment!
Hear bell hooks talk about internalized oppression and Gloria Steinem agreeing and disagreeing with her about many feminist issues: a great conversation that illuminates a lot about the folks of the 70s women's movements. Enjoy! • You will want to have watched the WHOLE video by 25 November (and the Q&A at the end is really wonderful too!) Watch it again when you are writing your final Learning Analysis (which is Assignment 4).
http://new.livestream.com/TheNewSchool/Forever-Young-bell-hooks-Gloria-Steinem/videos/64181039
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