Syllabus
English 521
Spring 2002
(subject to change)


Week To Read Before Class To Do Before Class/Bring To Class
Week 1 Definitions and Concepts of Culture .
1/15 Getting to know each other *
1/17 -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 .
1/22 -Geertz, Thick Description 
-Geertz, Being There		 *Homework: Literacy Narrative/ Community Membership
1/24 -Bishop, Ethnographic Writing Research, chapters 1 and 2
-Stake, chapter 3		 *
Week 3 Case Study Research and Ethnography .
1/29 - Bishop, Ethnographic Writing Research, chapters 3 and 4
- Stake, chapter  4		 *discuss IRB Forms
1/31 -Bishop, Ethnographic Writing Research, chapter 5
-Fontana and Frey, Interviewing		 *Ideas for Field Research due 
*How to write an ethnography
*discuss group projects
2/4 Proposal abstracts for Graduate Student Symposium due! .
Week 4 Cultural Representation and Ethnography .
2/5 -Brodkey, Writing Ethnographic Narratives
-Herndl, Writing Ethnography		 *IRB due
2/7 Heath, Ways with Words, chapters 1-4 *
Week 5 Reading Ethnography .
2/12 Heath, Ways with Words, chapters 5-7 *
2/14 Heath, Ways with Words, chapters 8-9 *
Week 6 Writing and Representation .
2/19 -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)
2/21 -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 .
2/26 -Street, The Schooling of Literacy and The Implications of the New Literacy Studies for Pedagogy *
2/28 -Powell and Andersen, Culture and Classroom Communication *Paper 2 due: critical analysis of Heath
Week 8 Pedagogy and Culture  .
3/5 -Gordon, Border Work: Feminist Ethnography
-Anzaldua, Chapter 5, 6, and 7		 .
3/7 - no class, work on collaborative projects .
Week 9 Spring Break 3/11-3/15 .
Week 10 Women, Literacy, and Culture  .
3/19 - Mohanty (read the article included in the course pack and this short biography and bibliography) 
- Wallace		 *
3/21 -Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Chapter 2
- Henry Giroux "Paulo Freire and the Politics of Postcolonialism" (online article)		 *
Week 11 Identity Politics .
3/26 -Villanueva, Bootstraps *
3/28 -Villanueva, Bootstraps *Visitor: Victor Villanueva: be prepared to discuss Bootstraps and ask questions
3/29-30 Graduate Student Symposium *Collaborative Project Presentations and/or individual presentations
Week 12 Writing and Culture .
4/2 Collaborative Project Presentations *Collaborative Project Presentations: 
4/4 Collaborative Project Presentations *Collaborative Project Presentations
Week 13 History, Discourse, and Native American Culture .
4/9 -Reyhner and Eder, A History of Indian Education
-Hall, Monochronic and Polychronic Time		 *Detailed Paper Outline for Field Research due. Here' are some guidlines for your Field Research paper
4/11 -Swisher and Deyhle, Adapting Instruction to Culture *
Week 14 History, Discourse, and Native American Culture .
4/16 -McCarty and Schaffer, Language and Literacy Development *Draft for Field Research due
4/18 no assigned reading *Field Research Presentations
Week 15 Presentations .
4/23 no assigned reading *Field Research Presentations
4/25 no assigned reading *Field Research Presentations
Week 16 Presentations .
4/30 no assigned reading *Field Research Presentations
5/2 no assigned reading *Field Research Presentations

Portfolio due Thursday, 5/2:
- Cover letter
- 1 copy of final draft of paper, 
- reading notes, revised version of short papers; all notes, drafts, field research notes in a separate folder.
Week 17 Finals Week .

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