ENG 104: Exploring the Margins
SPRING 2015 COURSE SCHEDULE
(Subject to Change)
* “IAW” refers to From Inquiry to Academic Writing
WEEK
ACTIVITIES
(PLEASE BRING LAPTOPS TO CLASS)
Things To Have Completed or Read
Week 1
1/6
Introductions; Discuss Research Process &
Course Theme
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1/8
Sign up for Q&Qs; Turning things in (gDrive,
gSites, & Blackboard)
Oppression
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Meet in the Library! (BL225)
Research Questions
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Week 2
1/13
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Have set up your Google account and Google Site (VIDEO
tutorial), email Ms. Mc with your gSite URL
Have set up your Dropbox
Have read syllabus & Young’s “Five Faces of Oppression”
Have viewed Vizi Lesson 1 and complete any exercises
Have completed Syllabus Quiz
Have viewed Vizi Lesson 2, completed exercises, & come
prepared with research questions
Discussion Post
Unit Theme: Social Systems
1/15
Q&Q
Annotating
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Week 3
1/20
Q&Q
MLA Format Refresher
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Have read Johnson’s “Patriarchy: The System” & hooks “Men:
Comrades in Struggle.”
Have Read Chapter 2 of From Inquiry to Academic Writing (IAW)
pages 29-32, 36-39.
Read McIntosh’s “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible
Knapsack” & Crosley-Corcoran’s “Explaining White Privilege to
Evaluating Sources
1/22
Q&Q
Using MLA PowerPoint
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a Broke White Person…”
Have read IAW (from Ch. 6) 120-138.
Discussion Post
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Have viewed Vizi Lesson 3 & complete assignments
Have read hooks “Teaching Resistance” & 21 RACIAL
MICROAGGRESSIONS
Week 4
1/27
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Visual Rhetoric
Peer Review
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1/29
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Q&Q
Receive draft comments from
Ms. Mc.
Have read “Visual Rhetoric” from the Purdue OWL & all links in
the document.
Have a rough draft of your project in the Google Drive or on
your Google site and ready to share with your partners.
Have Read Richardson’s “Stereotyping in the English
Language” & Lorber’s “Night to His Day”
Unit Theme: Relationships & Family
Week 5
2/3
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Have read “Podcasting Basics” in Dropbox.
Have created a Soundcloud account & played with the site.
Project 1 Reflection
Q&Q
Using Sources
PPE Quote Sandwiches
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Have read IAW pages (from Ch. 3) 55-63, 67-72
Have read Morell’s “Explaining the Choice” & Friedman’s
“Sharing Madison”
Q&Q
Finding Connections
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Have read IAW pages (from Ch. 7) 139-144, 146-153, 165-170
Have read Gillespie & Strauss’s “What Women Aren’t Told
About Childbirth.”
Discussion Post
PROJECT 1 DUE (GSITES &
BLACKBOARD)
Discuss Project 2; Intro. To Podcasting
2/5
Week 6
2/10
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2/12
Q&Q
Organizing & Drafting
Uploading on SoundCloud & Posting to your
gSite
Week 7
2/17 & 2/19
Week 8
2/24
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Have read excerpt from Polikoff’s Beyond
(Straight and Gay) Marriage
Midterm Conferences with Ms. McGinnis—you will receive feedback on Project 2
Meet in her office RB 257 at your assigned time.
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Q&Q
Peer Review
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Have read Gattrell, et. al.’s “Adolescents with Lesbian
Mothers Describe Their Own Lives”
Discussion Post
Unit Theme: Sexuality
2/26
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PROJECT 2 DUE!
Q&Q
Discuss Project 3. Meet your groups.
Week 9
3/2-3/6
Week 10
3/10
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SPRING BREAK
Be safe!
Q&Q. Expanding your research. Set up
communication plan. Group workshops.
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3/12
Have read Taormino’s excerpt from Opening Up.
Have read A Guide to Field Research & accompanying links on
right margin.
Project 2 Reflection
Q&Q. Data. Group workshops.
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Have read Scott “Sexual Skirmishes & Feminist Factions”
Have viewed Vizi Lesson 6: Collaboration & complete
assignments
Group Discussion Post
Have read Wright’s “Discrimination of SM-identified
Individuals” & Jeffreys’s “Sadomasochism”
Have viewed Vizi Lesson 4: Understanding Data & complete
assignments
March 16: Last day to drop!
Week 11
3/17
3/19
Week 12
3/24
3/26
Q&Q
Writing for the Web
Group workshops.
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Have read Jensen’s “Pornographic World” and Sheiner’s
“Odyssey of a Feminist Pornographer”
Have read “Writing for the Web” & “The BIG four”
Discussion Post
Q&Q
Group workshops.
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Have read Rubin’s “Thinking Sex” pages 1-15
Q&Q
Peer Review!
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Have read Burroway “Heterosexual Agenda” &
Bednarska’s “Passing Last Summer”
Q&Q.
Group workshops. REVISING.
Get feedback from Ms. Mc.
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Schroth & Mitchell’s “Why Bisexuality Matters” & Halperin’s
“Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Bisexual”
Unit Theme: Gender
Week 13
3/31
PROJECT 3 DUE (GSITES &
BLACKBOARD)
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Have read Thorne “Boys & Girls Together, But Mostly Apart”
Group Reflection Memo
Q&Q. Discuss Project 4. Review Multimodal
Options & Examples
4/2
Week 14
4/7
4/9
Q&Q. Reviewing Citations.
Avoiding Plagiarism Refresher
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Have read Kessler’s “Medical Construction of Gender”
Have read IAW (from ch. 7) 180-187.
Q&Q. Project 4 Organization Workshop.
Outlining & reshaping your work.
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Have read Fausto-Sterling’s “The Five Sexes, revisited”
Discussion Post
Q&Q.
Editing
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Have read Stoltenberg’s “ ‘I Am Not a Rapist!’: Why College
Guys are Confronting Sexual Violence” & Martin &
Hummer’s “Fraternities and Rape On Campus”
Have viewed Vizi lesson 7: Style & Editing & complete
lessons
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Week 15
4/14
Q&Q. Presenting like a rock star!
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Have read Kimmel’s “ ‘Bros before Hoes’: The Guy Code” &
Morgan’s “From Fly Girls to Bitches & Hos”
Have read Vizi Lesson 5: Presentation & complete lessons
Discussion Post
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Have read Beemyn’s “Transgender Issues on College
Campuses” & APA’s “Transgender Pamphlet”
Week 16 4/21 Project 4 Conferences with Ms. McGinnis
& 4/23
Meet in her office RB 257 at your assigned
time
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Revise Project 4 for Submission
Polish your Google Site
Complete Final Reflection
Finals
Week
4/31
SCHEDULE
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ENG104-75 (8 a.m.) EXAM: Wednesday 7:30-9:30 a.m.
ENG104-82 (11 a.m.) EXAM: Tuesday 9:30-11:45 a.m.
4/16
Q&Q
Peer Review
PROJECT 4 DUE (GSITES &
BLACKBOARD)
Presentations
MONDAY, MAY 4, 2014
GRADES DUE
12 P.M.