Date | Topic |
| Assignments |
| Week 1 | |||
| Wed. Aug. 30 | Introduction to FYS 6 | Fill out the (entry) student survey online before 11am Fri Sep 1. | |
| Fri. Sep. 1 | GUEST SPEAKER: William Tentindo of the Williams Institute (via Zoom) | 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 Friday September 8 (Available online here) | |
| Wed. Sep. 6 | Introduction to Critical Reading, Critical Thinking | “Free Papers” by Wideman. | You should have created Twitter and Blogger accounts and logged into your Google account to make sure you know all the passwords at least ONCE before class. Writing Assignment #1 available online. |
| Fri. Sep. 8 | Race is a social construct. | “The Social Construction of Race” by Haney López “White by Law” by Haney López | Writing Assignment #1 distributed. |
| 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 | |
| Wed. Sep. 13 | Sex is a social construct. | “The Five Sexes” by Fausto-Sterling SUPPLEMENTAL READING: “Dueling Dualisms” by Fausto-Sterling | 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“The invention of heterosexuality” by Katz SUPPLEMENTAL READING: “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 “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 | ||
| Wed. Sep. 27 | FYS Lab Day #3: Library | Mandatory Library Research Session. We will walk over to Brown Lab in the Library at 11:50am. | |
| Fri. Sep. 29 | Structural Inequality: Structural racism, patriarchy, compulsory heterosexuality. | First version of Paper #1 due in class by 11:45am. | |
| Week 6 | |||
| Mon. Oct. 2 | FYS LAB DAY #4 Peer Review | ||
| Wed. Oct. 4 | FYS Lab Day #5: Working on Papers | ||
| Fri. Oct. 6 | Transition from Section I to II. | The Celluloid Closet (102 mins, Dir: Epstein and Friedman) (Available online here) | Paper #1 is due at the beginning of class (11:45am) in hardcopy form. |
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 | Writing Assignment #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 | The 2010s & 2020s. | ||
| Wed. Oct. 25 | FYS Lab Day #5 Study Workshop | 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. | 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. | Baehr v. Lewin by Eskridge & HunterSUPPLEMENTAL 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. | “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 #6: Pre-Writing Workshop by Leila Anzalone | Bring laptops and Paper #3 prompt to class | |
| Week 12 | |||
| Mon. Nov. 13 | Gender, Sexuality and Law.
| “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!: DOMA Dies, Proposition 8 Perishes. |
"Goodridge
v. Dept. of Public Health” By Eskridge & Hunter (pp. 123-130). Perry v. Schwarzenegger (Conclusions of Law) “In re Marriage Cases” by Eskridge & Hunter Hollingsworth v. Perry (syllabus only) United States v. Windsor (syllabus only) SUPPLEMENTAL TEXT VIDEO: “8”
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| Fri. Nov. 17 | GUEST SPEAKER: William Tentindo of the Williams Institute at UCLA Law Schoool (via Zoom) | | |
SECTION IV: LGBT RIGHTS IN THE ERA OF GOOGLE | |||
| Week 13 | |||
| Mon. Nov. 20 | FYS Lab Day #7: Revision | NOTE: Electronic versions of Paper #3 due via Googledocs by Monday November 20th at 5pm. 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 | LGBT Rights in the Internet Era (STUDENT PRESENTATIONS OF SOCIAL MEDIA EXAMPLES: 3 MINUTES EACH) | Writing Assignment #3 due at the beginning of class
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| Wed. Nov. 29 | FYS LAB DAY #8: Reflection on Writing | ||
| Fri. Dec. 1 | FYS LAB DAY #9: Consuming and Producing Knowledge | ||
| Week 15 | |||
| Mon. Dec. 4 | Last day of Class! | 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 | Comments on Final Paper complete by 5pm. Hand-in Hard Copy versions of Final Paper by 5pm.
Changes to online | ||