Readings All readings are available online through the Electronic Reserve service of the Reserve Room in the Oberlin College Library (http://www.oberlin.edu/eres/); hardcopies of them may also be checked out in the Reserve Room in the Oberlin College Library.
Videos All video viewings will take place on Wednesday evenings in Mudd 050 from 7:30-9:30 pm. If you are unable to attend the scheduled viewing or would like to take a second look at a video, copies are available from the Reserve Room in Mudd and may be checked out to view in the Audio Visual section of the library (located on the 4th floor of Mudd) or taken home for a day.
Turning in Papers Unless I request otherwise, turn in papers by emailing them to Jan.Cooper@oberlin.edu as an attachment in Microsoft Word, Rich Text Format. See instructions handed out in class for more information on how to do that.
Attendance Attending and coming to class on time are especially crucial in this course, given how much work is scheduled for each class meeting. If you are absent from class or miss an appointment with me, I expect you to contact me as soon as possible to explain the absence and to turn in writing or pick up materials you may have missed. If you are late to class, I expect you make some explanation to the me at the end of the period, and if (for some dire reason only!) you have to leave early, I expect you to explain why that will happen at the beginning of the class meeting.
Thurs., 9/2 class introductions, name game, first day writing
How have we learned a language of sexuality and gender?
Mon., 9/6 Paper 1 due in email sent by 6 pm
Tues., 9/7 syllabus handed out , discussion of Paper 1 drafts
Wed., 9/8 Hide and Seek viewing at 7:30-9:30 pm in Mudd 050
Thurs., 9/9 Paper 1 Revision due in email sent by 6 pm; in class discussion of Hide and Seek , Katz's "'Homosexual' and 'Heterosexual': Questioning the Terms," and Clausen's "Extract from My Interesting Condition"
How is the language of sexuality and gender we've learned historically situated?
Tues., 9/14 Paper 2 due in email sent by 6 pm; in class workshop student papers
Wed., 9/15 Before Stonewall viewing at 7:30-9:30 pm in Mudd 050
Thurs., 9/16 in class discussion of Before Stonewall , Goodman's "Written Statement," from Into the Pink: An Oral History of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Students at Oberlin College from 1937-1991, and Hanawa's "inciting sites of political interventions: queer 'n asian"
How can languages of sexuality and gender be seen in visual codes? How have people trying to communicate their anger at US reactions to the AIDS epidemic provided particularly vivid examples of this?
Tues., 9/21 Paper 2 revision due in email sent by 6 pm; visit Allen Memorial Art Museum for discussion let by Stephan Jost
Wed., 9/22 After Stonewall viewing at 7:30-9:30 pm in Mudd 050
Thurs., 9/23 stage 1 of Paper 3 due in email sent by 6 pm; in class discussion of After Stonewall and Wojnarowicz's "DO NOT DOUBT THE DANGEROUSNESS OF THE 12-INCH TALL POLITICIAN"
How do visual and verbal codes work together in film and television to convey constructions of sexuality and gender?
Tues., 9/28 stage 2 of Paper 3 due in email sent by 6 pm; in class workshop student papers
Wed., 9/29 Celluloid Closet viewing at 7:30-9:30 pm in Mudd 050
Thurs., 9/30 in class discussion of Celluloid Closet and Sikov's "Laughing Hysterically: Sex, Repression, and American Film Comedy"
Tues. 9/28-Thurs. 9/30--each member of the class should take her or his first draft of Paper 3 to the Expository Writing Program tutors in Mudd 210 for advice
by Fri., 10/1 noon--email Jan.Cooper@oberlin.edu a short description of what happened in tutoring session
note change: Sun., 10/3--stage 3 (second full draft) of Paper 3 due to Jan by 6pm
Mon. 10/4 by 6pm--Jan will email 3 papers to be workshopped in class on Tues., 10/5--be sure to download, read, and write comments for the writers on each paper
Tues., 10/5 in class workshop student papers
Wed., 10/6 possibly videos related to student papers shown
Thurs., 10/7 in class workshop student papers
Tues., 10/12 in class workshop student papers
Wed., 10/13 no film this week
Thurs., 10/14 in class midterm discussion
Fri., 10/15 Midterm Folders due in box at my office by noon
Tue., 10/19 in class discussion of Wypijewski's "A BOY'S LIFE: For Matthew Shepard's killers, what does it take to pass as a man?"
Wed.,10/20 Tongues Untied viewing at 7:30-9:30 pm in Mudd 050
