You have been invited to teach a semester-long introduction to women’s studies course to high school students. Walk us through the planning of the syllabus for this course.
Drawing on the wide range of materials from the course and elsewhere in your research:
provide a rationale for your course.
To do so, first identify two central questions of your course and two key ideas that you see as the most relevant/important for this age group. The rationale section must be must be between 2-3 pages double spaced. Please explain and elaborate the significance of your course, your course objectives, overall expectations, and your course structure. You may, if you choose, come up with examples of assignments or activities for your class.
Draft an annotated bibliography, with at least 6 sources: 3 from class and 3 outside of class, identifying which of these materials you will assign the high schoolers themselves and which you may not assign but will be important in your preparation for teaching them.
Be sure to demonstrate how these materials speak to each other and why these key ideas might matter to this age group. Your annotations must be at least 3-4 sentences.
You may, if you wish, include in your planning some of the assignments that you would give but keep in mind that this assignment is most invested in reading your comprehensive rationale for the selections/decisions you have made.
You speculative syllabus must be at least 5-8 pages double spaced.
As always, include a cover page, and a works cited page. If you come across other syllabi and use them as examples to set your syllabus up, please include those in your works cited page.
Here are some readings from the course that you may use in your annotated bibliography or the 3 “class” sources
bell hooks, “Theory as a Liberatory Praxis”
Audre Lorde, “Age, Race, Class and Sex: Women Redefining Difference”
Linda Nochlin, “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?”
Michele Wallace, “Why Are There No Great Black Artists?: The Problem of Visuality in African American Culture”
bell hooks, “Eating the Other: Desire and Resistance”
Candace West and Don H. Zimmerman, “Doing Gender”
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy and CeCe McDonald “Cautious Living: Black Trans Women and the Politics of Documentation” in conversation with Toshio Meronek in Trap Door
Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner, “Sex in Public”
