WMST 200 January 2012: Assignments for Next Week

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Assignments for Next Week

Thanks for all of your good work this week.
I am sure that your brain is full after an intense week!!

Here are the assignments for next week to help keep you organized:

1) Per the syllabus, read and post on your blog by Sunday night at midnight.

Assignment: Talking Points #5: Spend an hour exploring the websites www.pbs.org/peoplelikeus and The Center for Working Class Studies (http://cwcs.ysu.edu). Blog about what you found. Why/how is economic inequity a feminist issue? (NOTE: you do not need to use one of the format options for this blog post -- just answer the question above.)

2) Read my blog post for the week on Economic Injustice and leave me a comment by Monday night at midnight.

3) Read everyone's blog posts for the week and leave each person a comment by Monday night at midnight. (We strongly encourage you to comment back to the people who leave you comments -- you can do this in a new post or by leaving a comment on your own blog!)

4) Complete the reading and assignment for Wednesday's class and post to your blog by Tuesday night at midnight.

Readings: Ayvazian, “Interrupting the Cycle of Oppression;” visit Occupy websites online to explore what the Occupy movement is about.

Assignment: Talking Points #6 on Ayvazian and Occupy websites (posted to your blog by 1/17 @ midnight)

NOTE: We will be passing out the Final Exam in class.

5) Complete the reading and assignment for Thursday's class and post to your blog by Wednesday night at midnight.

Readings: Love and Helmbrecht, “Teaching the Conflicts”

Assignment: Talking Points #7 on Love & Helmbrecht (posted to your blog by 1/18 @ midnight)

Assignment: Prepare 2-4 minute Presentation on Final Exam Project (we will talk about this after we pass out the exam on Wednesday)

NOTE: Post on Occupy Experience is due Monday, January 23.

NOTE: Final Exam is due on Monday, January 23.

2 comments:

Kayla said...: I'm feeling a little over whelmed!!; January 14, 2012 at 10:55 AM
Vanessa Brache said...: i agree with kayla....but we have gotten this far, so only shows we have little left and its crunch time!!!lets doooo it; January 16, 2012 at 9:05 AM

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Occupy Assignment

Sometime before Jan. 23, you need to visit the Occupy Providence Camp in Burnside Park. Think of yourself as a journalist gathering information about the Occupy Movement. You can find more information about daily events, meetings and activities on Facebook or online.

Your assignment is to visit the site, talk to the activists who are camping out there and find out why they occupy. What issues matter to them? What are they fighting for and why? As you write about your experiences on your blog, please make connections to at least 2 of our course texts. The websites you are reading for 1/16 and the readings for 1/18 will be very helpful here. Please post this assignment on your blog by Monday, January 23.

Why We Use Blogs in WMST 200

In the context of this course, your blog has three purposes:

1) Your blog will provide a space for you to keep all of your Talking Points assignments over the course of our three weeks together. You will not hand in written assignments to us each day; rather you will post them on your blog. In this sense, your blog is merely your assignment notebook that you will use as you read and prepare for class each day. You will also be posting any additional thoughts you have: responses to class discussion, after thoughts, things you forgot to say in class, relevant experiences you have, etc.

2) But importantly, your blog is a public space and as you post (and comment on others'), you will gain a much richer understanding of everything we read and discuss in class. I want you to think of it as interactive and intertextual in that way. Blogging is not the same as writing a paper in Microsoft Word — you have to stretch your brain to make sure you are taking advantage of this unique technological and communal experience.

3) Creating your own blog will also introduce you to the blogisphere if you don't know this place already. I hope that you will discover creative personal and professional uses for this online medium. You will see how easy it is to use blogger.com, and perhaps it will inspire you to use blogging as a form of activism and community.