English 521
Spring 2001
(subject to change)
| Week |
To
Read Before Class |
To
Do Before Class/Bring To Class |
| Week
1 |
Definitions and Concepts of Culture | . |
| 1/16 | Getting to know each other | * |
| 1/18 | -Collier, Cultural Identity and Intercultural
Communication
-Barna, Stumbling Blocks in Intercultural Communication |
*Bring an artifact that you consider important to your
culture
*Bring an artifact that you consider stereotypical to your culture |
| Week
2 |
Concepts of Culture and Ethnography | . |
| 1/23 | -Geertz, Thick Description
-Geertz, Being There |
*Homework: Literacy Narrative/ Community Membership |
| 1/25 | -Bishop, Ethnographic Writing Research, chapters
1 and 2
-Stake, chapter 3 |
* |
| Week
3 |
Case Study Research and Ethnography | . |
| 1/30 | - Bishop, Ethnographic Writing Research, chapters
3 and 4
-Stake, chapter 4 |
*discuss IRB Forms |
| 2/1 | Bishop, Ethnographic Writing Research, chapter 5
-Fontana and Frey, Interviewing |
*Ideas for Field Research due
*How to write an ethnography *discuss group projects |
| 2/2 | Proposal abstracts for Graduate Student Symposium due! | . |
| Week
4 |
Cultural Representation and Ethnography | . |
| 2/6 | -Brodkey, Writing Ethnographic Narratives
-Herndl, Writing Ethnography |
*IRB due |
| 2/8 | Heath, Ways with Words, chapters 1-4 | * |
| Week
5 |
Reading Ethnography | . |
| 2/13 | Heath, Ways with Words, chapters 5-7 | * |
| 2/15 | Heath, Ways with Words, chapters 8-9 | * |
| Week
6 |
Writing and Representation | . |
| 2/20 | -Scheduled One-on One Meetings | *write up an annotated list of questions you are going to ask (i.e. include WHY you are asking these questions) |
| 2/22 | -Stuckey, Ideologies of Literacy | *Paper 1: Project Outline for Field Research due (including
a short section on the background research that you have been doing).
Here is a Sample Project outline |
| Week
7 |
Literacy and Language Use | . |
| 2/27 | -Street, The Schooling of Literacy and The Implications of the New Literacy Studies for Pedagogy | * |
| 3/1 | -Powell and Andersen, Culture and Classroom Communication | *Paper 2 due: critical analysis of Heath |
| Week
8 |
Spring Break 3/5-3/9 | . |
| Week
9 |
Pedagogy and Culture | . |
| 3/13 | -Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Chapter 2
- Henry Giroux "Paulo Freire and the Politics of Postcolonialism" (online article) |
* |
| 3/15 | - no class, work on collaborative projects | * |
| Week
10 |
Women, Literacy and Culture | . |
| 3/20 | -Gordon, Border Work: Feminist Ethnography
-Anzaldua, Chapter 5, 6, and 7 |
* |
| 3/22 | - Mohanty
(read the article included in the course pack and this short biography
and bibliography)
- Wallace |
* |
| Week
11 |
Identity Politics | . |
| 3/27 | -Villanueva, Bootstraps | * |
| 3/29 | -Villanueva, Bootstraps | *Visitor: Victor Villanueva: be prepared to discuss Bootstraps and ask questions |
| 3/30-31 | Graduate Student Symposium | *Collaborative Project Presentations |
| Week
12 |
Writing and Culture | . |
| 4/3 | Collaborative Project Presentations | *Collaborative Project Presentations: |
| 4/5 | Collaborative Project Presentations | *Collaborative Project Presentations |
| Week
13 |
History, Discourse, and Native American Culture | . |
| 4/10 | -Reyhner and Eder, A History of Indian Education | *Detailed Paper Outline for Field Research due. Here' are some guidlines for your Field Research paper |
| 4/12 | Hall, Monochronic and Polychronic Time | * |
| Week
14 |
History, Discourse, and Native American Culture | . |
| 4/17 | -Swisher and Deyhle, Adapting Instruction to Culture | *Draft for Field Research due |
| 4/19 | -McCarty and Schaffer, Language and Literacy Development | * |
| Week
15 |
Presentations | . |
| 4/24 | no assigned reading | *Field Research Presentations |
| 4/26 | no assigned reading | *Field Research Presentations |
| Week
16 |
Presentations | . |
| 5/1 | no assigned reading | *Field Research Presentations |
| 5/3 | no assigned reading | *Field Research Presentations
Portfolio due Thursday, 5/3:
|
| Week
17 |
Finals Week | . |