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Class Info, description, organization & MORE!
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women, art, and culture, a FESTIVAL of feminisms and art activisms in search of systems justice
WMST 250 (sections: 0301 0302 0303 0304 0305), Fall 2015 UMDOur large Tuesday Weekly Lecture is from 3 pm – 4:40 pm at JMZ 0220. Our first day of class will be Tuesday 1 Sept
Thursday personal seminars and discussion sections:
Sec. 0301 – SQH 2120: Thursday 3-3:50pm, Clara Montague: montague.clara@gmail.com
Sec. 0302 – KEY 0120: Thursday 4-4:50pm, Anna Storti: amstorti@umd.edu
Sec. 0303 – HBK 1108: Thursday 4-4:50pm, Cara Snyder: csnyder3@umd.edu
Sec. 0304 – JMZ 0120: Thursday 3-3:50pm, Tangere Hoagland: Thoagland3@gmail.com
Sec. 0305 - JMZ 1120: Thursday 3-3:50pm, Jocelyn Coates: jmcoates@umd.edu
Professor: Katie King
Office: 2101C Woods Hall, University of Maryland, College Park
Katie's Fall 2015 OFFICE HOURS 2101C Woods Hall are WEDNESDAYS & THURSDAYS from 3-4:30pm BY APPOINTMENT ONLY!
Please make appointment BY Email AT katking@umd.edu! FOR OFFICE HOURS ALWAYS BE SURE TO ALSO EMAIL ME AT katking@umd.edu TO CONFIRM the morning you are coming too! otherwise you might lose your place!
Office phone: 301.405.7294 (voice mail)
IF YOU SUBMIT ANY ATTACHMENTS BY EMAIL to KK DO IT ONLY TO: katiekin@gmail.com (notice “kin” NOT “king”)
But best email for fast reply is: katking@umd.eduKK’s website with office hrs & More! :http://katiekin.weebly.com/You can follow Katie on Twitter @katkingumd
Class Website at: http://wmst250fall15.blogspot.com
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course description: a FESTIVAL of feminisms and art activisms in search of systems justice
Women's art, art by women, feminist art, and art activism have been ways women have analyzed and changed everyday life. Art is one of the forms of passionate politics feminists have mobilized to make life better, for themselves and others. In this course we will investigate how artists and activists have asked sometimes hard, sometimes joyful questions about power, gender and sexuality, practices of racialization, nations and languages, abilities and disabilities, religion and meaning and more. We will examine assumptions we and others make about women, art, culture and feminism. We will especially consider how art can reshape possibilities and actualities for everybody. What counts as art? What do we do with public art? What is art activism?To create our own community of thinking and action, we want to get to know and work with each other. Ours will be an active and ambitious learning community, both one and many at the same time, as is feminism! Our large Tuesday Weekly Lecture is from 3 pm – 4:40 pm at JMZ 0220. Our first day of class will be Tuesday 1 Sept.
Thursday personal seminars and discussion sections:
Sec. 0301 – Thursday 3-3:50pm, Clara Montague
Sec. 0302 – Thursday 4-4:50pm, Anna Storti
Sec. 0303 – Thursday 4-4:50pm, Cara Snyder
Sec. 0304 – Thursday 3-3:50pm, Tangere Hoagland
Sec. 0305 - Thursday 3-3:50pm, Jocelyn Coates
We will not be using Canvas in this class, but rather working with Blogger, a public online site, using it for class multimedia presentations, for class preparation and review, and maybe for other possibilities! Please bookmark our class site: http://wmst250fall15.blogspot.com
All students please do come to office hours to just talk. The TAs and I want to get to know each of you personally! This should be a very fun class, demanding we hope in the most satisfying ways, and full of comradeship and excitement. We all want to know how the class is working for you, what touches and excites you, how your projects are going. So please make a point of coming to office hours and opening up conversations!Let us know in office hours or after class when you need help, the sooner the better. If you have any kind of disability, whether apparent or non-apparent, learning, emotional, physical, or cognitive, please contact Katie at katking@umd.edu ASAP, and your TA as appropriate, to discuss reasonable accommodations for your access needs. Folks who need time from class to observe religious holidays, please contact Katie and your TA to make any arrangements necessary.
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explore our readings, media, artworks!
Everyone will read our “book-museum,” a collection of literary art for social justice, and an autobiography of a feminist graphic novel artist:· Pérez. 2007. Chicana Art. Duke. 0822338688 (also on Kindle but without pictures, which is a problem)
· Brown. 2015. Octavia's Brood. AK. 9781849352093 ALSO WEBSITE: http://octaviasbrood.com
· Bechdel. 1998. Indelible Alison Bechdel. Firebrand. 9781563410963 ALSO WEBSITE: http://dykestowatchoutfor.com
Actually ANY BOOK BY ALISON BECHDEL IS APPROPRIATE!! So if you cannot get this particular one (which is fabulous), find any of her work and use that instead! :)
Everyone will read these handbooks to art, social movements, and feminisms:
· Freeland. 2002. But Is It Art? Oxford. 0192853678 (also Kindle & Google ebook)
· Reed. 2005. The Art of Protest. Minnesota. 0816637717 (also Kindle and Google ebook) ALSO WEBSITES: http://culturalpolitics.net/social_movements
In Collaboration with your Thursday seminar group, you will also choose ONE of these books too!
Dixon. 2014. Another Politics. California.
9780520279025
Kindle ASIN: B00KOLR378
Glennon-Zukoff. 2014. Queer and Trans Artists of Color. CreateSpace.
9781492215646
Guerrilla Girls. 1998. Bedside Companion. Penguin.
9780140259971
hooks. 2000. Feminism Is for Everybody. South End.
9780896086289
McMillan. 2015. Capitalism Must Die! INIP.
9780991604708
Paoletti. 2013. Pink and Blue. Indiana.
9780253009852
Kindle ASIN: B007A0PHL0
Steely. 2007. Fight Like a Girl. NYU.
9780814740026
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You are required to read these books, not to buy them, or even to own them. All are on reserve at McKeldin and many are available at other libraries. Share them, rent them, borrow them, xerox them, scan them. Fair use means producing copies for your own private research use. Of course you can help others in obtaining originals for such fair use copying. Always be sure to locate your books long before you need to read them, even if one or more turn out to be just coming out or even out of print. Find what you can and read them anyway! ISBN numbers are included to make ordering them easier if you wish to buy them.
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how the class will be organized
This will be a media and technology intensive course. So-called constructionist learning and collaboration open up our analysis of women, art, and culture, and our introduction to the field of women’s studies, as well as to activist practices. Bring your own laptop, netbook or iPad if you can, to connect across media, to become increasingly savvy about web resources, and to use data visualizations and virtual environments for cognition and collaboration. Throughout the course we will share resources for all these.
But pay attention to how using devices affects yours and others' learning. If using a laptop gets in the way of your learning and paying attention in class, please alter your practices accordingly. If sitting next to someone using a laptop or other device is distracting you, please make a point of sitting elsewhere. LEARNING HOW TO LEARN MATTERS! Work in good faith, for yourself and for others.
The course will involve both taking things in, absorbing them and learning to put them in context; and also actively using what we come to know, sharing it others, thinking on one's feet, brainstorming and speculating, figuring out how it all fits together. Both require careful preparation before class and keeping up with the reading. Some educators call these forms passive and active learning. One can take in and absorb more complicated stuff than one can work with and work out, at least at first. We do both in the class, but we also realize that active learning requires patience and imagination, a bit of courage to try things out without knowing something for sure yet, and a willingness to play around with being right and wrong, guessing and a lot of redoing.
The website for our entire class is located at: http://wmst250fall15.blogspot.com
This is where graphics, mini-lecture materials and notes, communications and assignment help, and other vital class information and presentations are displayed. You can complete your assignments properly only if you stay very familiar with this website. Bookmark it immediately! Plan on visiting our class site and reading email every couple of days, and not just a few minutes before class. These are class requirements. If you have any difficulties getting access to these resources come and talk to us as soon as possible. Any announcements about cancellations due to weather or other considerations, and general class requirements will be sent out on coursemail and put up on the website and you need to see them quickly. To get help go to OIT's Help Desk at the Computer and Space Sciences Building, Rm. 1400, or checkout the help desk webpage at: http://www.helpdesk.umd.edu/
Get to know as many people in the class as you can, especially those in your Thursday seminar group, share contact information with these folks and if in emergencies anyone must be absent, support each other with class notes and discussion. Everyone should also have several class buddies to rely on. We will introduce ourselves early in the semester, and buddies can help each other brainstorm projects, edit each others’ work, provide feedback before assignments are due, and help each other work in drafts, starting projects early and completing them in good time.
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graded assignments: individual museum paper, group flyer and event, individual or partner curation project, individual learning analysis
Four kinds of assignments are required in this class: • an individual essay about your museum visits & how you know something is feminist, • a group (your section) project in which together you create a feminist event, real or fictional, a flyer to let folks know about it, and a collective definition of the term “feminist,” included on the flyer as an important feature of event; all presented by group in class (presentation participation is required to receive a grade) • an individual or partner curation project linking intersectional identities and feminist art activisms (a presentation of this work is also part of its grade) • a final learning analysis (a presentation of which will also be part of its grade). LOOK AT CLASS WEBSITE TO DOWNLOAD ADDITIONAL GUIDELINES FOR EACH ASSIGNMENT AS THEY ARE AVAILABLE!
This also means that presentations, some in the lecture class, some in section, some in both, are an essential part of most assignments, necessary in order to receive credit. That means you must build into your understanding of each experience set the idea that anything written is not all that is necessary to complete your work and to get credit for it. If an emergency or illness kept you from participation in presentations, to get full credit you will have to meet with three other students to share your work and their work outside class, and write up the experience and what you learned from it to complete the presentation portion and to get your grade.
Together the museum paper and the group feminism project and presentation count for 1/3 of your grade, the curation project and presentations for another 1/3, and the learning analysis, presentation, and info sheet count for the final 1/3. Together these make up a portfolio of work for the term.
Obviously attending class faithfully and taking good notes will make all this work a lot easier. Lecture materials are displayed on the class website, to be reviewed at any time. In college courses ALWAYS use your projects to demonstrate how you uniquely put together, or synthesize, class readings, lectures and discussion. Make a point of displaying that you are doing all the reading and attending all the classes. Doing this clearly and carefully will demonstrate that this is your own work, and ensure your credit for honesty and for real engagement with the course.
Wondering how grades are determined? What they mean?
- A work is excellent, unusually creative and/or analytically striking
- B is fine work of high quality, though not as skilled, ambitious, or carefully presented as A
- C is average or usual work fulfilling the assignment; should not be hasty, or insufficiently collaborated
- D work is below average or incomplete; shows many difficulties or cannot follow instructions
- F work is not sufficient to pass; unwillingness to do the work, or so many difficulties unable to complete
Remember, you can always talk to Katie and / or your TA about grades and your evaluation concerns during office hours anytime. Feedback is always available, be sure to ask for it when you are concerned about it and note that grades are not the only sort of feedback either, or even the best sorts. Indeed, try not to let the grades structure your learning experiences wholly: it is the learning that matters most! Don’t eat the menu (the grades) instead of the meal (learning)! Those who aim for A’s don’t get as many A’s as those who abandon the quest for A’s and seek knowledge or at least curiosity!
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what to do when you must unavoidably miss class, perhaps for illness:
· TALK TO AT LEAST TWO CLASS BUDDIES IMMEDIATELY. Before you even come back to class, call them up or email them and find out if any thing you need to plan for is happening the day you return, and make sure that you know about any changes in the syllabus. Try to have done the reading and be as prepared as possible to participate in class and with your projects when you return.
· MAKE A DATE TO MEET WITH CLASS BUDDY TO GET NOTES AND DISCUSS WHAT WENT ON IN CLASS WHILE YOU WERE GONE. You are responsible for what happened in class while you were gone. As soon as possible, get caught up with notes, with discussions with buddies and finally with all the readings and assignments. Always talk with class buddies first. This is the most important way to know what went on when you were gone and what you should do.
· AFTER YOU HAVE GOTTEN CLASS NOTES AND TALKED ABOUT WHAT WENT ON IN CLASS WITH BUDDIES, THEN MAKE APPOINTMENT TO SEE YOUR TA. If you just miss one class, getting the notes and such should be enough. But if you've been absent for more than a week, be sure you make an appointment with your TA and possibly with Katie, and come in and discuss what is going on. We all want to know how you are doing and how we can help. Or, while you are out, if it's as long as a week, send your TA or Katie email (Katie at katking@umd.edu) and let us know what is happening with you, so we can figure out what sort of help is needed. You may need to contact section members or class buddies as well.
· IF YOU ARE OUT FOR ANY EXTENDED TIME be sure you contact Katie as well as your TA. Keep all of us up to date on what is happening, so that any arrangements necessary can be made. If you miss too much class you will have to retake the course at another time. But if you keep in contact, depending on the situation, perhaps accommodations can be made. Since attendance is crucial for the process of this special course and thus for your final grade LET KATIE AND TA KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING so that we can help as much and as soon as possible.
· THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AN EXCUSED ABSENCE AND ANYTHING ELSE: generally speaking you are only allowed to make up work you missed if you have an excused absence. That the absence is excused does not mean you are excused from doing the work you missed, but that you are allowed to make it up. Katie usually permits people to make up any work they miss, and does not generally require medical or other official documentation for absences. Still, be sure to give a brief explanation in writing to your TA with dates involved and do make up all work you have missed.
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