ENGLISH 3

 

 

 

Materials

Gerrard, Gender Issues  (APS)

1 floppy or zip disk

Bruin Online account

Connections MOO character and password

Class websites:       http://ecampus.humnet.ucla.edu/classes/engcomp3_lec25_04sp/

                                 http://ecampus.humnet.ucla.edu/classes/engcomp3_lec30_04sp/

 

Basic Facts

• This is a course in reading, analyzing, and writing academic discourse. The writing assignments will ask you to pull together information from multiple sources and draw inferences from them.

• All your reading and writing will be on issues of male and female gender.

• You will be using a computer for all the writing, library research, and for much of the class discussion you do in class, and you will spend substantial time using a virtual environment called a MOO. You do not need extensive computer experience to take this course, but if you do not have Internet access where you live, be prepared to do some of your assignments in the CLICC labs in Powell or in 87 or 88 Kinsey.

• Teamwork is essential to your success in this course. Please be prepared to work closely with other students in the class on pre-writing, computer, and writing projects.

• This is a hands-on course, with a workshop rather than lecture format. Come to class on time and prepared to work, and bring your books, disks, and papers-in-progress with you. Regular attendance is compulsory and will figure in your final grade. You cannot make up a missed class.

 

Goals

The goals of the course are 1) to sharpen your intellectual acuity, and 2) to increase your rhetorical skill. Specifically, you will refine your ability to do the following:

• Read texts attentively and critically

• Use theoretical knowledge as a means of interpreting texts

• Draw inferences from specific information

• Define a topic worthy of academic research

• Synthesize ideas and information from different sources

• Incorporate external sources into your writing

• Organize your ideas around a central point

• Explain your ideas in detail, using extensive illustrations

• Expand your stylistic range

• Use computers and virtual spaces to plan, research, compose, and revise your papers

• Learn strategies for doing library research.

• Work collaboratively as a community of writers

 

Requirements

• 6 drafts, minimum

• short writing assignments

• participation in collaborative projects and online class discussions

• working in and building a virtual space

• oral reports

 

Grading

Paper #1:                  25%

Paper #2:                  25%

Paper #3:                  25%

Work grade:             25% (attending all classes, on time and prepared; timely completion of all in- and out-of-class assignments, including computer and group work; substantial contribution to co-authored projects)

 

 

 

 

 

SCHEDULE

 

UNIT 1: DEFINING GENDER

 

Week 1

T  4/6         Class:        Introduction to course; introduction to Connections MOO

Home:        Lieberman, H.D., Sabo, Coyle, Majors, Staples, Reed, oral reports and questions

Th 4/8        Class:        Discuss readings; approaches to Paper 1; oral reports

Home:        Beck, Cofer, Haldane, Sontag, Faludi, Naylor, web site “About-Face,” web site "Cindy Jackson"; oral report, questions; APS 313-318 (Connections MOO policies, conventions, basic commands

 

Week 2

T  4/13       Class:        Discuss readings; MOO discussion

Home:        APS 120-148 (ads)

Th 4/15      Class:        Film: Still Killing Us Softly: Advertising’s Image of Women; discuss ads

Home:        Barthel, Katz, Clark; bring 4 copies of ad to class T 4/20

 

Week 3

T 4/20        Class:        Film: Stale Roles and Tight Buns; discuss readings and ads

Home:        APS 2, 3, 5; APS (sample papers); Paper 1, draft 1

Th 4/22      Class:        Paper 1, draft 1 due; discuss Paper 1, revising techniques (thesis/organization)

Home:        APS, 13-14 (organizing), 6-12 (development), 48-49 (collaboration); bring 3 copies of Paper 1 (with ads) to class T 4/27

 

Week 4

T 4/27        Class:        Paper 1, revising techniques (using detail); edit groups

Home:        APS 272-283 (Morgan, Wallace); APS 21-22 top (conciseness), 25-27 (removing unnecessary words); bring MOO character/password to class Th 4/29

Th 4/29      Class:        Discuss Paper 1, revising techniques (conciseness); Introduction to MOO character; discuss Morgan, Wallace

Home:        Paper 1, final draft; Fong-Torres, Rounds, Steinem; Sullivan, Zuniga, Hagedorn, Camp, Brail, Marsa, Pogrebin; oral report/questions in MOO

 

 

UNIT 2: RESEARCHING GENDER ISSUES

 

Week 5

T 5/4          Class:        Paper 1, final draft due; approaches to Paper 2; discuss readings in MOO

Home:        Choose co-author and topic for Paper 2; APS 94-117 (research tools); sign up for library Research Appointment

Th 5/6        Class:        Orion and Melvyl; begin research

Home:        APS 65-91 (sample papers); APS 14-16 (introductions/conclusions); research Paper 2; write prospectus

Week 6

T 5/11        Class:        Discuss papers and research findings; discuss and revise prospectus

Home:        Paper 2, draft 1; APS 33-34 (punctuation and style) 

Th 5/13      Class:        Paper 2, draft 1 due ; discuss Paper 2; revising techniques; punctuation/style

Home:        Bring 3 copies of Paper 2 to class T 5/18

 

 

UNIT 3: BUILDING A GENDERED MOO SPACE

 

Week 7

T 5/18        Class:        Revising techniques, punctuation/style; edit groups

Home:        APS (Connections MOO: Help Manners, Help Research Policy, Getting Started, Quick Reference for Connections Commands); browse Connections link; bring MOO character and password to class Th 5/20; Bruckman, Dibbell; Paper 3, preparation 1

Th 5/20      Class:        Discuss readings in MOO; explore MOO rooms (paper 3, preparation 2)

Home:        Paper 2, final draft; explore Connections MOO; APS (Building in Connections MOO)

 

Week 8

T 5/25        Class:        Paper 2, final draft due; explore MOO; build room in Connections MOO (paper 3, preparation 3)

Home:        Work on MOO room

Th 5/27      Class         Work on MOO room

Home:        Finish MOO room; Paper 3, preparation 4 (write statement about your MOO room)

 

Week 9

T 6/1          Class:        Paper 3, preparation 4 and MOO room due; explore classmates' rooms

Home:        Paper 3, draft 1

Th 6/3        Class:        Paper 3, draft 1 due; discuss Paper 3, revising strategies; bring 3 copies of Paper 3 to class, T 6/8

Home:        APS 30-32 (voice), 34-35 (style); 44-45 (sentence types)

 

Week 10

T 6/8          Class:        Style and voice; stylistic revision; edit groups

Home:        Paper 3, final draft

Th 6/10      Review

 

Finals week

M 6/14       Paper 3, final draft due, 4:00 p.m., my mailbox, 271 Kinsey