Schedule

The most up to date version of the course schedule will be found here: https://sites.oxy.edu/ron/fys6/schedule.htm

 

DATE	TOPIC	READING	ASSIGNMENT
Week 1
Wed. Aug. 30	Introduction to FYS 6		Fill out the (entry) student survey online before 11am Fri Sep 1.
Fri. Sep. 1	FYS Lab Day #1: Create social media/blogging accounts	Bring laptops to class.
Week 2
SECTION I: UNDERSTANDING IDENTITY: INTERSECTIONS AND COMBINATIONS OF GENDER, RACE & SEXUALITY
Mon. Sep. 4	Labor Day Holiday. No Class.		Watch Ethnic Notions before 11am Friday September 8 (Available online here)
Wed. Sep. 6	Introduction to Critical Reading, Critical Thinking	“Free Papers” by Wideman.	Writing Assignment #1 available online.
Fri. Sep. 8	Race is a social construct.	“The Social Construction of Race” by Haney López Race: The Power of an Illusion (Excerpt 1, Excerpt 2, Excerpt 3, Excerpt 4) SUPPLEMENTAL READING: “White by Law” by Haney López  Race the Power of an Illusion (26 minutes of Part 3: The House We Live In)	Writing Assignment #1 distributed. Finish watching Ethnic Notions before today's class.
Week 3
Mon. Sep. 11	Gender is a social construct.	“‘Night To His Day’: The Social Construction of Gender” by Lorber SUPPLEMENTAL READING: "The Social Construction of Gender” by Lorber	ACTIVITY: Gender Boggle! Male/Masculine and Female/Feminine
Wed. Sep. 13	Sex is a social construct.	“The Five Sexes” by Fausto-Sterling “The Five Sexes (Revisited)” by Fausto-Sterling SUPPLEMENTAL READING: “Dueling Dualisms” by Fausto-Sterling	Gender Boggle results as Word Cloud
Fri. Sep. 15	MANDATORY CORE PROGRAM EVENT : Tania El Khoury, Thorne Hall, 11:45am.	All students should attend the Core Program lecture in Thorne Hall.
Week 4
Mon. Sep. 18	Sexual orientation is a social construct,	“On heterosexual masculinity” by Herek“ SUPPLEMENTAL READING: The invention of heterosexuality” by Katz  “From bisexuality to intersexuality: Rethinking gender categories” by Drescher.	Writing Assignment #1 due in class, by 11:45am. Paper #1 Assignment distributed.
Wed. Sep. 20	Deconstructing the Binary, Part 1: Hybridity.	“La conciencia de la mestiza,” by Anzaldúa SUPPLEMENTAL READING: “Living the Contradiction (excerpt)” by Spencer
Fri. Sep. 22	Deconstructing the Binary, Part 2: Intersectionality.	“Intersectionality 101” by Hankivsky SUPPLEMENTAL READING: “Intersectionality to the Rescue” by Hancock “Mapping the margins: intersectionality, identity politics, and violence against women of color” by Crenshaw Williams
Week 5
Mon. Sep. 25	Buckmire absent. FYS LAB DAY #2 Thesis Workshop Taught by Writing Fellow Leila Anzalone SLIDES
Wed. Sep. 27	FYS Lab Day #3: Library Information Session	Mandatory Library Research Session.
Fri. Sep. 29	Structural Inequality: Structural racism, patriarchy, compulsory heterosexuality.	"Structural Racism" by Ray	First version (draft) of Paper #1  due uploaded to Moodle by 5pm PT.
Week 6
Mon. Oct. 2	FYS LAB DAY #4 Peer Review (Led by Leila Anzalone) NO SLIDES
Wed. Oct. 4	FYS Lab Day #5: Working on Papers	Come to class with hard copies of your papers to share with and help others.
Fri. Oct. 6	Transition from Section I to II. Buckmire absent. (No class, watch The Celluloid Closet by  next class on Wed Oct 11.)	The Celluloid Closet (102 mins, Dir: Epstein and Friedman) (Available online here)	Paper #1 is due online at 12noon: SUBMIT PAPER #1 ONLINE HERE
SECTION II: LGBT RIGHTS IN THE OBAMA ERA (1961 to Now)
Week 7
Mon. Oct. 9	Oxy Fall Break. No class.
Wed. Oct. 11	The 1960s.	“Stonewall and the Birth of Gay and Lesbian Liberation” by Miller (Victory, Chapter 3) “It Was The Sixties That Did It: Gays Get Radical, Radicals Get Gay” by Hirshman. (Victory, Chapter 4) “Stonewall Uprising” by Hirshman.	Writing Assignment #2 distributed.
Fri. Oct. 13	The 1970s.	“The 1970s: The Times of Harvey Milk and Anita Bryant” by Miller (Victory, Chapter 5) “The Good Gays Fight The Four Horsemen: Crazy, Sinful, Criminal and Subversive” by Hirshman
Week 8
Mon. Oct. 16	The 1980s.	“The 1980s: The Age of AIDS” by Miller (Victory, Chapters 6-7) “Dying for the Movement: The Terrible Political Payoff of AIDS” and  “ACT UP: Five Years That Shook The World” by Hirshman
Wed. Oct. 18	The 1990s.	“The Clinton Years.” By Miller (Victory, Chapters 8-10)”Failed Marriage and Losing Battles,” “Founding Fathers” and “Massing The Troops for One Last Battle” by Hirshman	WritingAssignment #2 is due at 11:45am by sharing with the professor via Googledocs. Paper#2 available.
Fri. Oct. 20	The 2000s.	“The New Millennium” by Miller. (Victory, Chapters 11-12) “With Liberal Friends: Who Needs Enemies?” and “Victory: The Civil Rights March of Our Generation” by Hirshman	Paper#2 distributed.
Week 9
Mon. Oct. 23	FYS Lab Day #6: Iterative Improvement
Wed. Oct. 25	FYS Lab Day #7 Study Skills Workshop	Review for Mid-Term	Practice Midterm Exam.
Fri. Oct. 27	Midterm Exam (on Section I and II)	The Mid-Term will be similar to the quizzes in class, with special emphasis on material from the readings of Section I and II.
SECTION III: GENDER & SEXUALITY, LAW & MARRIAGE
Week 10
Mon. Oct. 30	Transition from Section II to Section III	United States Constitution (Amendments 1-10,14)	Final Version of Paper#2 is due at beginning of class in hardcopy form. Paper #3 prompt available.
Wed. Nov. 1	Introduction to Constitutional Law. GUEST SPEAKER: KYLE SHEN (OXY POLITICS DEPARTMENT). SLIDES LINK	Constitutional Rights Summary by Eskridge & Hunter, pp. xxxix-l (39-50: Section 1 and Section 2) How to Read a Legal Opinion by Kerr
Fri. Nov. 3	Race & Marriage.	“Miscegenation Law, Court Cases, and Ideologies of ‘Race’ in Twentieth-Century America.” By Pascoe Loving v. Virginia  by Eskridge & Hunter SUPPLEMENTAL The Facts of Race in the Courtroom by Pascoe.
Week 11
Mon. Nov. 6	Gender & Marriage. Lecture Notes.	Baehr v. Lewin by Eskridge & Hunter SUPPLEMENTAL READING: “Why Discrimination Against Lesbian and Gay men IS Sex Discrimination” by Koppelman” When Is A Man a Man, and When is a Woman a Woman?” by Greenberg
Wed. Nov. 8	Marriage & Citizenship. Lecture Notes.	“Injustice For All?” by Cott SUPPLEMENTAL READING: “Introduction” and “Marriage Revised and Revived” By Cott Racial Restrictions in the Law of Citizenship by Haney López
Fri. Nov. 10	FYS Lab Day #8: Pre-Writing Workshop (Led by Leila Anzalone) SLIDES	Bring laptops and Paper #3 prompt to class!
Week 12
Mon. Nov. 13	Gender, Sexuality and Law. Lecture Notes.	“Sexual and Gender Variation in American Public Law (Section 1 and Section 2)“by Eskridge SUPPLEMENTAL READING: “A History of Same-Sex Marriage“ by Eskridge  “The Constitutional Case: Discrimination” by Eskridge
Wed. Nov. 15	Marriage Equality!: How Did We Get Here From There? Lecture Notes.	"Goodridge v. Dept. of Public Health” By Eskridge & Hunter (pp. 123-130). Obergefell v. Hodges (syllabus only) SUPPLEMENTAL READING “In re Marriage Cases” by Eskridge & Hunter Perry v. Schwarzenegger (Conclusions of Law) Hollingsworth v. Perry (syllabus only) United States v. Windsor (syllabus only) SUPPLEMENTAL TEXT “8” by Dustin Lance Black VIDEO: “The Case Against 8”
Fri. Nov. 17	GUEST SPEAKER: William Tentindo of the Williams Institute at UCLA Law School SLIDES
SECTION IV: LGBT RIGHTS IN THE ERA OF SOCIAL MEDIA
Week 13
Mon. Nov. 20	FYS LAB DAY #9: Information Literacy 101: Consuming and Producing Knowledge on the Internet Lecture Notes.		NOTE: Electronic versions of Paper #3 due via Googledocs Sharing by  TUESDAY NOVEMBER 21 11:59PM Final Assignment available online. Start Writing Assignment #3.
Wed. Nov. 22	Wednesday, November 22, 2023 (Thanksgiving Break)
Fri. Nov. 24	Friday, November 24, 2023 (Thanksgiving Break)
Week 14
Mon. Nov. 27	LGBTQ Rights in the Internet Era (STUDENT PRESENTATIONS ON WEB-BASED ARTEFACTS: 3 MINUTES EACH)		Writing Assignment #3 due at the beginning of class Final Assignment distributed.
Wed. Nov. 29	FYS LAB DAY #10: Meaningful Revision SLIDES
Fri. Dec.  1	FYS LAB DAY #11: Reflection on Writing SLIDES
Week 15
Mon. Dec. 4	Last day of Class! (Partay!) (STUDENT PRESENTATIONS ON WEB-BASED ARTEFACTS: 1-3 MINUTES EACH, continued)	We’ll be reading each others essays online and posting comments. Discussion of the semester’s writing process will also occur.	Online Version of Final Paper due in class at 11:45am and published to personal blogs.
Week 16
Mon. Dec. 11			. Changes to online version of published final paper must be complete by Monday December 11th at 5pm.