HUM 142-Women & Creativity Spring 2012

Tentative Course Schedule  (The following is a tentative schedule. Some readings will be announced later in the semester, or modified depending on the pace of the class).

Week 1

Tuesday (1/17)  Introduction to the Course and One Another

Syllabus Review, Required Texts, Course Expectations

Thursday  (1/19) Feminism 101

Women & Creativity Bingo

Introduce Semester Long Poetry Project

READ: Get books and read introductions in both Half the Sky & The Purity Myth by 1/26

Week 2

Tuesday (1/24) Representation and The Media

                Killing Us Softly 4 by Jean Kilbourne (45 min)

                Discuss film

                READ: Introductions to Half the Sky & The Purity Myth by 1/26

Thursday (1/26) Half The Sky & The Purity Myth

Why Women & Creativity?

                Poetry & Spoken Word Artists

Stacey Ann Chin- http://www.staceyannchin.com/

Alix Olson- http://www.alixolson.com/

Adrienne Rich

                HW: Bring to class a copy of favorite poem         

Week 3

Tuesday (1/31) Poetry

                Poetry exercise

Part 1- Semester Long Poetry Project –YOU poem exercise

Introduce Guerilla Girls Research Assignment

READ: & and print this article (bring to class) Veiled Threat: The guerrilla graffiti of Princess      Hijab http://bitchmagazine.org/article/veiled-threat

Thursday (2/2) Cultural Identity, Religion, & Art

                Filmmaker Shirin Neshat            

                Author Marjane Satrapi

Artist: Princess Hijab 

Cultural Symbols & Dominant Ascribed Meaning

Discuss Veiled Threat

READ: Embroideries

Week 4

Tuesday (2/7) DUE: Part 1- Poem Projects- YOU Poem

                Graphic Novel –Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi

Thursday (2/9) Film Women Without Men –(95 minutes) Shirin Neshat

Week 5

Tuesday (2/14) Finish Women Without Men

                Discuss film

READ: GG: Chapters 1-3

Thursday (2/16) Guerilla Girls

                Who are the Guerilla Girls?

                Discuss Ch. 1-3

                Hildegard Von Bingen, Christine De Pizan, Artemisia Gentileschi

                READ: GG: Chapters 4-6

 

Week 6

Tuesday (2/21) DUE: Women Without Men Paper

                Guerilla Girls

                Discuss Ch. 4-6

Thursday (2/23) Frida Kahlo

                Film: Frida (123 minutes)

Week 7

Tuesday (2/28) Guerilla Girls Research Assignment

                Group #1 Presentations

Thursday (3/1) Guerilla Girls Research Assignment

                Group #2 presentations

HW: Study for Exam and work on Part 2 of Poem Projects

Week 8

Tuesday (3/6) EXAM #1

Thursday (3/8) Part 2 Poem Projects “Gallery Show”

DUE: Semester Long Poetry Projects- Part 2

READ: The Purity Myth by Jessica Valenti

Chapters 1-3 & 6-8

Week 9

March 12-18 SPRING BREAK

READ: The Purity Myth- Chapters 1-3 & 6-8

Week 10

Tuesday (3/20) The Purity Myth-Jessica Valenti

                READ: 9 & 10

Thursday (3/22) TONIGHT—WHM Keynote-Amy Richards on Gloria Steinem! (REQUIRED

                ATTENDANCE)

                The Purity Myth-Jessica Valenti

Week 11

Tuesday (3/27) Performance Art

                 Marina Abramović, Suzanne Lacy, Carolee Schneemann

                Women in Performance Art-Presentation

Thursday (3/29) Theatre & Women of the Stage

Guest Speaker: Rivendell Theatre Ensemble-Chicago’s Premiere Women’s Theatre

                Feminist Theatre Practice

Discussion on the body, gender, and performance

Week 12

Tuesday (4/3) Women Make Movies

                http://www.wmm.com/

                Women’s contributions to filmmaking

                Significance of Boys Don’t Cry

Filmmaker: Kimberly Pierce

Begin Boys Don’t Cry (118 min)

Thursday (4/5) Finish Boys Don’t Cry

                Discussion of film

                READ: http://www.cwluherstory.org/CWLUGallery/mutineers.html

                http://www.sjsu.edu/upload/course/course_4495/02.3_Hisama.pdf

HW: bring lyrics to favorite song my female artist

 

Week 13

Tuesday (4/10)  DUE: Boy’s Don’t Cry Paper

                Feminist Music

                From Rap to Rock-Women and Music

                Kathleen Hanna-Riot Grrrl

                Queen Latifah-Ladies First

                READ: Half The Sky-Chapter 1

Thursday  (4/12) Turning oppression into opportunity

                Trading Women Documentary (77 minutes)

                READ: Half The Sky Chapters 2-5 by 4/24

Week 14

Tuesday (4/17) DUE: Part 3 Poem Projects

                Part 3 Poem Projects “Performance Space”

Thursday (4/19) Part 3 Poem Projects “Performance Space”

READ: Half The Sky Chapters 2-5

4/21 ART & ACTIVISM—REQUIRED ATTENDANCE!

Week 15

Tuesday (4/24) Half the Sky by Kristoff & WuDunn

                Discuss Chapters 2-5

                READ: Chapters 6-8

Thursday (4/26) Half The Sky

                Discuss Chapters 6-8

                READ: Chapters 10--14

Week 16

Tuesday (5/1) Half The Sky

                Finish remaining chapters

                Creative Social Justice  

Thursday (5/3) Half the Sky

                Creative Social Justice

Week 17

Tuesday (5/8) Half the Sky Presentations

                                DUE: Project & Paper

Thursday (5/10) Half the Sky

                                DUE: Project & Paper

 

****Dates for REQUIRED EVENTS!!!

3/8- Rosa Luxemburg OR Kita y Fernanda (3/1-3/11)

3/22- Amy Richards/Gloria Steinem

4/21-Art & Activism Event: Keynote: Strike Anywhere