Course Schedule (subject to revision, as needed)

All reading assignments should be completed by the first meeting day of each week.

UPDATE: we will NOT be using Perusall this semester. All annotations should be done in the shared Google Doc files under the “Annotations” menu tab.

Aug. 29-Aug. 31

• Sign up for OpenLab and join our class
• Sign up for Perusall and join our class using code WESTENGARD-ER48M
• Download and bring to class (you don’t have to read it, but you can if you want to!):
  • Chopin, Kate. “The Story of an Hour.” 1894. Kate Chopin: Complete Novels & Stories.  Library of America, 2000.  Accessed at Library of America.

Sept. 5-Sept. 7

• Download, read, annotate, and bring to class:
  • Amory, Deborah. “What is LGBTQ+ Studies?” LGBTQ+ Studies: An Open Textbook. Accessed at SUNY OER Services (Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA)
  • TSQ (2014) vol.1, issue 1-2. Accessed at TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly.
    • Cisgender
    • Identity 
    • Intersex 
    • LGBT 
    • Queer 
    • Transgender
• Add questions and highlight words that need definition on Perusall

Sept. 12-Sept. 14

• Download, read, annotate, and bring to class:
  • Lorde, Audre. “Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference.” Sister Outsider. Trumansburg: The Crossing Press, 1984. Accessed at Alexander Street via City Tech Library.
  • Aimers, James. “Intersectionality.” LGBTQ+ Studies: An Open Textbook. Accessed at SUNY OER Services (Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA)
• Add questions and highlight words that need definition on Perusall

Sept. 19-Sept. 21

Field Research Essay 1 Due 9/21

• Download, read, annotate, and bring to class:
  • Miller, Jennifer. “The Constructionist Turn in Gender and Sexuality Studies.” LGBTQ+ Studies: An Open Textbook. Accessed at SUNY OER Services (Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
  • Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Grimm’s Fairy Tales (selections). Olcott, Frances Jenkins, ed. Philadelphia: The Penn Publication Company, 1927. Accessed at Project Gutenberg.
• Add questions and highlight words that need definition on Perusall

Sept. 26-Sept. 28

• Download, read, annotate, and bring to class:
  • Miller, Jennifer. “Gender Performativity,” LGBTQ+ Studies: An Open Textbook. Accessed at SUNY OER Services (Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA)
  • Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. “The Yellow Wallpaper.” The New England Magazine, January 1892. Accessed at  Project Gutenberg.
• Add questions and highlight words that need definition on Perusall

Oct. 3-Oct. 5

• Download, read, annotate, and bring to class:
  • Fausto-Sterling, Anne. “Dueling Dualisms.” Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality. New York: Basic Books, 2000: 1-29. Accessed at City Tech Library.
  • Feinberg, Leslie. Stone Butch Blues (Selections). Ithaca: Firebrand Books, 1993. Accessed at lesliefeinberg.net.
• Add questions and highlight words that need definition on Perusall

Oct. 10 (No Class, Monday Schedule)-Oct 12

Field Research Essay 2 Due 10/12

• Download, read, annotate, and bring to class:
  • Aimers, James. “Queering the Sex and Gender Binary.” LGBTQ+ Studies: An Open Textbook. Accessed at SUNY OER Services (Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA)
  • Feinberg, Leslie. Stone Butch Blues (Selections). Ithaca: Firebrand Books, 1993. Accessed at lesliefeinberg.net.
• Add questions and highlight words that need definition on Perusall

Oct. 17-Oct 19

• Download, read, annotate, and bring to class:
  • Miller, Jennifer. “Transgender Studies.” LGBTQ+ Studies: An Open Textbook. Accessed at SUNY OER Services (Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA)
  • Feinberg, Leslie. Stone Butch Blues (Selections). Ithaca: Firebrand Books, 1993. Accessed at lesliefeinberg.net.
• Add questions and highlight words that need definition on Perusall

Oct. 24-Oct. 26

• Midterm Review 10/24
• Midterm Exam 10/26

Oct. 31-Nov. 2

• Download, read, annotate, and bring to class:
  • Bey, Marquis. “Giving Voice to Black Gay Men Through Marlon Riggs’s Tongues Untied.” LGBTQ+ Studies: An Open Textbook. Accessed at SUNY OER Services (Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA)

Nov. 7-Nov. 9

Field Research Essay 3 Due 11/9

• Download, read, annotate, and bring to class:
  • Larsen, Nella. Passing (Part 1). New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. Accessed at Internet Archive.

Nov. 14-Nov. 16

• Download, read, annotate, and bring to class:
  • Larsen, Nella. Passing (Part 2). New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. Accessed at Internet Archive.

Nov. 21-Nov. 23 (No Class)

Group Project Working Session

Nov. 28-Nov. 30

Field Research Essay 4 Due 11/30

Group Project Working Sessions

Final Exam Review

Dec. 5-Dec. 7

Group Project Presentations

Dec. 12 (No Class)-Dec. 14

Final Exam 12/14

Dec. 19

Conclusions

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