GNDR 103 C
Spring 2004

Instructor: Valerie Lehr
Office Hours:
Office: 84 Park St., #203
Phone: x5677
email: vlehr@stlawu.edu

Course Requirements:

1) Daily response/question: For each reading, you should make note of a passage that you find particularly interesting or troublesome. If you find it interesting, why? What does it help you to understand or what questions does it raise in your mind? Does it reinforce a point that we have discussed or that you have read elsewhere? If you find it troubling, why? Is it hard for you to understand what the authors is getting at? Do you disagree? Does it conflict with something else that we have read? I may or may not collect these, but we will use them in class, either as a way of beginning class discussion or, occasionally, as a way of reviewing where we have been. You should always have these responses with you and be prepared to read them to the class. 5% of final grade.

2) Participation: I expect that you will participate in class discussions, that you will be engaged in careful listening to what others say, and that you will do your best to engage with one another productively. 5%.

3) Midterm exam: 20%.

4)Final Exam/Paper 25% -- This will be an essay final. All essays must be turned in by May 6th at 12:00pm.

5) Group research project: 20%

6) Gender Construction Paper: 20%

7) Record of class discussion -- Each day, one of you will be assigned the record keeper for the day. Your job is to take notes on the conversation, type them up, and email them to me and one other student. Each of us will read over them, and send you comments. You should then revise the notes and send them to me. I will post them on an attached web page so that we will all have them. During this class, you should refrain from speaking. 5% (one day of official recording and one day of back-up recording).

8) Attendance -- I expect that you will be in class, unless you have a very good reason-- family emergency, away athletic event, germs that should not be spread to anyone else. If you miss more than 2 classes without decent excuses, your participation and daily response grades will suffer.

Assignment Update

Required Texts:

Tracy Ore, The Social Construction of Difference and Inequality, Second Edition (Please note: There are significant differences between the first and second edition. If you buy the text somewhere other than the bookstore, be sure that you have the correct edition.)

Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time

Schedule: The assigned reading should be completed prior to class. I will also try to provide some questions for you to consider as you read. My goal will be to have the questions posted by Monday morning for class on Tuesday and by Wednesday morning for class on Thursday.