Tuesday Dec 11

 11am JAKE

 11:30 TRAVIS

 12pm NICOLE

  1pm ANTONIO

  1:30 LELAND

  2pm LIV

  3pm BECKY

  3:30 MAX

  4pm MELISSA W

Wednesday Dec 12

11am KRYSTLE

 11:30 WENDY

 12pm SUSAN

 1pm LINNIE

  1:30 TIM

 2pm AMY

 3pm LIBERTY

 3:30 VIOLET

  4pm DREW

Thursday Dec 13

 1:30 OLIVIA

 2pm TESSA

 2:30pm PAIGERENEE

writing assignment for Emancipation’s Diaspora – due Thursday dec 6 at noon

focus on chapters 5 & 7.

part 1) summarize each chapter fully, ie, tell the story of what happened in each chapter and what Schwalm concludes about what happened in each.

part 2) discuss how the free community, once established, worked to build its historical memory of slavery? more specifically, what personal, social and family values were common to building community and memory both?


week 10, writing self evals and planning winter

monday dec 3

12:00 – history class

1:30 – panel presentation

• team 1 – Brick* “Nomads, Bunkies, Cross Dressers, and Family Men: Cowboy Identity and the Gendering of Ranch Work”; “White Men, Red Masks: Appropriations of ‘Indian’ Manhoood in Imagined Wests”

3:00 – fall quarter integrative discussion & self evaluation workshop

Thursday dec 6

12:00 – potluck, winter planning

2:00 – photo critique

materials due

• Emancipation’s Diaspora writing assignment
• photo portfolio
• writing/skills portfolio
• draft self eval

eval conferences

11:00-4pm – evals

self evals are required at the end of each quarter in difference and desire.

• due Thurs dec 6 at noon – a reasonably polished draft of your eval
• due at your eval conference – a final draft

if you leave the program, you must prepare a formal self-eval and submit it the registrar for addition to your transcript. a formal eval is usually a first person narrative, a story of your learning experience and growth.

if you stay in the program, you can write your eval in any form or genre you want, as long as it is meaningful, comprehensive, and makes sense. lots of people write a letter either to faculty or to themselves.

if you stay through winter, or through winter and spring, your final self eval will be due at the end of your last term. the eval will be cumulative – a single narrative discussing elements of each quarter – and will take a formal style for submission to the registrar for your transcript.

Writing center eval-writing guides

evaluation overview

where and how to begin

ehow guide

writing center self eval workshops

Sunday Dec 2
2:00 – 4:00PM
SEM 2 E2109

Tuesday Dec 4
6:30 – 8:30PM
LIB 2310

Wednesday Dec 5
1:00 – 3:00PM & 5:00 – 7:00PM
SEM 2 E2109

student evaluations of faculty

student evaluations of faculty are also required in difference and desire. the rules for student self evals generally apply — informal when you stay, formal when you leave.

student evaluations of faculty aren’t required for each quarter if you stay on. they are required when you leave. you can turn them in to me, or to Julie Douglass in the Library Administration suite adjacent to my office.

announcements for week 8

we are sticking with the horowitz book and the latest writing assignment for another week. please read the second half of the book, parts 3 & 4, for thursday nov 15. complete the writing assignment in consideration of the whole book.

also don’t forget our retreat adventure is this friday, saturday and sunday, nov 16, 17, 18. it is up to each of us to make sure transportation and other logistical arrangements will be finalized when the time arrives. tea and snacks will be provided on saturday, but we’re on our own for lunch. drew plans a party at his house on saturday night. 😮


writing assigment for thurs nov 15

seminar paper (2-4 pages), due thursday nov 15 at noon – please summarize Horowitz’s basic argument and conclusions in Rereading Sex. explain the four frameworks she describes as “in conversation” with each other. what does she consider to be the civil war’s impact on how the conversation turned out? how did the conversation turn out?


Week 8, Nov 12-16 Reconstruction north, south, east, west

monday nov 12

no classes – veteran’s day

thursday Nov 15

12:00 book seminar: rereading sex, pts 3&4 by h l horowitz; writing practice

2:00 – photo lab

friday Nov 16

2:00 – lecture

3:30 – panel presentations: American Sexualities 122-134

• team 4 – Reis ch6 “Sex Among the Rabble”
• team 2 – Peiss ch7 “Free Love, Free Speech, and Sex Censorship”

7pm – 9pm – contemplative studies retreat

saturday Nov 17

9am – 4pm – retreat

Sunday Nov 18

9am – 12:00pm – retreat

Thanksgiving Week, Nov 19-23

no classes

writing assigment

seminar paper (2-4 pages), due thursday at noon – please summarize Horowitz’s basic argument and conclusions in Rereading Sex. explain the four frameworks she describes as “in conversation” with each other. what does she consider to be the civil war’s impact on how the conversation turned out? how did the conversation turn out?

monday Nov 5

12:00 – history class

1:30 – panel presentations: American Sexualities 101-114

• team 1 – Reis ch5 “The Overflowing of Friendship”
• team 5 – Peiss ch6 “Love and Intimacy in 19th Century America”

3:00 – skills practicum

thursday Nov 8

12:00 book seminar: rereading sex, pt 2 by h l horowitz; writing practice

2:00 – photo lab

friday Nov 9

12:00 – history lecture

2:00 – film

Written essay Assignments for week 6

Please polish these essays. Make a beginning, middle, and end for each one. Pay attention to spelling, grammar, and style. please print or type. no handwritten papers.

1. practice self eval/academic statement (1-2 pages), Due Monday at noon.
Explain briefly where Evergreen fits into your life story. Discuss what you’ve learned so far at Evergreen generally – and in Difference and desire specifically – and how your learning has changed/is changing your thinking.

2. discussion of primary sources (2-4 pages), Due Thursday at noon.
Pick a primary source that Lefkowitz uses to explain something about the past. Choose an interesting source. describe the source and explain its use as you would to someone outside the program.

In your description, pay attention to:

– author(s) name and social position (mother, father, doctor, minister, lawyer)

– genre (letter, diary, pamphlet)

– time and place of origin (north, south, rural, urban, before, during or after the Civil War, etc)

– content of the source

In your explanation, discuss how Lefkowitz uses her source to reach an historical conclusion. What specific information does she draw from the source? What is her specific conclusion? What supporting evidence does she pair with the source? For what larger argument does she use the source? What are the limitations of her use of the source and/or her larger argument as a whole?

class schedule

monday Oct 29

12:00 – history class

1:30 – panel presentations: American Sexualities 147-160

team 3 – Reis ch7 “White Women, Black Men, and Adultery in the Antebellum South”
team 7 – Peiss ch7 “Sexuality, Race, and Violence in Slavery and Freedom”

3:00 – skills practicum

thursday Nov 1

12:00 – book seminar: rereading sex, pt 1 by h l horowitz; writing practice

2:00 – photo lab

friday Nov 2

12:00 – photo discussion and critique

2:00 – film

monday Oct 22

12:00 – history class

1:30 – panel presentations: American Sexualities 82-94

• team 7 – Reis ch4 “Rape and Sexual Power in Early America”
• team 6 – Peiss ch4 “Gender Conflict and Sex Reform in the 19th Century”

3:00 – midterm team conferences

thursday Oct 25

12:00 – book seminar: One Thousand Deserts by brian delay; writing practice

2:00 – photo lab/midterm conferences

friday Oct 26

12:00 – photo critique

2:00 – film & potluck

Week 4, Oct 15-19 Market revolution and separate spheres

monday Oct 15

12:00 – history class

1:30 – panel presentations: American Sexualities 11-24

• team 2 – Reis ch1 “Bodies in Doubt; Intersex in Early America”
• team 4 – Peiss ch3 “Regulating Sexuality in the Anglo-American Colonies”

3:00 – skills practicum

thursday Oct 18

12:00 book seminar: Wicked River by lee sandlin; writing practice

2:00 photo lab – due: new roll of developed film; bring photo paper

friday Oct 19

12:00 – photo critique

2:00 – tba

Week 3, Oct 8-12 – American revolution and early republic

monday Oct 8

12:00 – history class

1:30 – panel presentations: American Sexualities 56-72

• team 6 – Reis ch3 “Indian Women, French Women, and the Regulation of Sex”
• team 3 – Peiss ch2 “Sexual Encounters in the New World”

3:00 – skills practicum

thursday Oct 11

12:00 – book seminar: Stolen Childhood by Wilma King; writing practice

2:00 – photo lab

friday Oct 12

12:00 – history class, writing practice

2:00 – film – a patch of blue (1965)