Note: This class is open to high school students only.
During this class, students will practice close reading as a group utilizing three texts.
- Chapter 4: Colonizing Bodies and Minds from Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí’s Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses
- Chapter 1: Anatomically Speaking: Ungendered Flesh and the Science of Sex from Black On Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton
- Thomas Laquer’s Chapter 2: Destiny is Anatomy from Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud
By the end of this term, students will be able to describe each author’s presentations of sex and gender and relate them to present social constructs of gender and sex.
To earn credit in this course, students must:
-complete all readings
-keep ongoing notes in every course
-seek opportunities to dig deeper and make connections to prior knowledge or relevant material from other courses
-contribute during in class discussions courageously
-apply feedback to future writing
-follow all instructions and submit all three assignments by the final day of courses
Outside work: no outside reading, possible outside work to complete the course’s three assignments
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