ILS 2180 Sexuality: Science/Culture/Law
Tentative Course Fall 2018
WEEK 1 WEEK 2 WEEK 3 WEEK 4 WEEK 5 WEEK 6
WEEK 7 WEEK 8 WEEK 9 WEEK 10 WEEK 11
NOTE: This schedule may change as needed. Your presence in class ensures correct assignments
WEEK 1
HOMEWORK (DUE 9/5):
- Complete Syllabus Quiz in Ulearn; See Quizzes link
- Set Up Blog; email the Web address to your page (http://wordpress)
- Read "Epitemology of the Closet" by Sedgwick; see "Course Readings" link in Ulearn
W 9/5 Share Response 2; open discussion; Review film terms
HOMEWORK (DUE 9/10):
- Watch the Celluloid Closet (1996; streaming on Amazon; $4.28)
- Complete Response 3, The Celluloid Closet: What struck you as surprising, interesting, or particularly important about this film? What connections can you make to Sedgwick's "Epistemology of the Closet?"
WEEK 2
M 9/10 Film Clip Analysis & Blog Post
HOMEWORK (DUE 9/12):
- Read "Run, Mourner, Run" by Randall Kenan; See Course Readings
- Complete Response 4: Argue what you see as the theme of this story and why. Theme = the central idea communicated by the work. Identify the theme as a one word idea.
W 9/12 Blog Post & Share: Discuss Reading; Analyze Film Clip & Blog
HOMEWORK (DUE 9/17):
- Read "The Social Constructions of Difference & Inequality: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality"
- Watch Brokeback Mountain (2005, Ang Lee, 135 minutes); See Amazon.com (rent $3.99)
- Response 5: While watching Lee's film, identify potential ways that sexual identity and gender are socially constructed and explain in a minimum of 300 words. Include one quote from Ore's article.
WEEK 3
M 9/17 Preview Essay 1; Watch Undertow (2012, dir. Javier Fuentes-Leon, 1 hr. 40 minutes); live
blogging
HOMEWORK (DUE 9/19):
W 9/19 Continue film
HOMEWORK (DUE 9/25):
WEEK 4
M 9/23 Approaching Essay 1; film clip and analysis
HOMEWORK (DUE 9/27):
- Complete first draft of Essay 1 & submit to Ulearn: SUBMIT ESSAYS/ASSIGNMENTS >
FIRST DRAFT, ESSAY 1
- Submit copy of first draft to SmartThinking tutor
W 9/25 First Draft of Essay 1 Due ; Watch film or film clip; blogging
HOMEWORK (DUE 10/1):
- Complete Peer Critique of your partner's visual analysis and post to Ulearn: SUBMIT ESSAYS/ASSIGNMENTS > PEER CRITIQUES
- Upload Smart Thinking report and revision plan as one MS Word file; Go to SUBMIT ESSAYS/ASSIGNMENTS <SMARTHINKING REPORTS & REVISION PLANS
WEEK 5
(Nicholas Bediako); Peer Critique
HOMEWORK (DUE 10/3):
Homosexuality?: Group Exercise (Rya Ramsey, Megan Larkins, Jessica Turnipseed)
HOMEWORK (DUE 10/8):
- Read, "Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics" by Cathy J. Cohen
- Watch film: Carol (2015, 118 min); available on Netflix
Read "Sex & The Brain
- Complete Response 6: Should the film Carol be considered a work with political potential? How does the work of Simon LeVay complicate or reinforce this political potential?
WEEK 6
M 10/8 Group Presentation, the Social Construction of Sexual Identity: Group Exercise & film clip
(Nick Jones, Justin Nichols, Jayla Wood)
HOMEWORK (DUE 10/10): Read "'Quare' studies, or (almost) everything I know about queer studies I learned from my grandmother" by E. Patrick Johnson
W 10/10 Group Presentation, The Stonewall Riots & the Gay Civil Rights Movement (Cultural &
Legal Significance) : Group Exercise & film clip (Taylor Collins, Samantha Deselms,
Daylean Pereira)
HOMEWORK (DUE 10/15):
- Read "Queer Times, Queer Assemblages" by Jasbir K. Puar
F 10/12 LAST DAY TO WITHDRAW FROM AN ACADEMIC COURSE
WEEK 7
(Barry Jenkins, 2016): (Gillian Howard, Danielle Jones, Barbara Jackson)
HOMEWORK (DUE 10/17):
- Read first half of Virgil
W 10/17 Watch Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, 2016); running time 1 hr. 51 min.
HOMEWORK (DUE 10/22):
- Complete Reading of Virgil
WEEK 8
M 10/22 Discuss Moonlight & Virgil; Discuss Essay 2
HOMEWORK (DUE 10/24):
- Read first half of Blue is the Warmest Color
- Complete First Draft of Essay 2
- Upload Copy of Draft to Submittable
Identity & The Graphic Novel (Iman Mitchell, Rachel Perron, Serena Benson)
HOMEWORK (DUE 10/29):
- Read Remainder of Blue is the Warmest Color
- Complete Response 10: Blue is the Warmest Color
- Upload Smart Thinking report and revision plan as one MS Word file; Go to SUBMIT ESSAYS/ASSIGNMENTS <SMARTHINKING REPORTS & REVISION PLANS
WEEK 9
M 10/29 Peer Critique; Discuss Blue is the Warmest Color; Set up documents for Group Project
(Final)
HOMEWORK (DUE 10/31):
HOMEWORK (DUE 11/5):
WEEK 10
M 11/5 Work on Group Project (Final)
HOMEWORK (DUE 11/7):
- First Draft of Group Project Due
W 11/7 First Draft of Group Project Due; Work on Group Project (Final)
WEEK 11
M 11/12 Reading Day (no class meeting);