History 357                                                              Dr. Tracey Rizzo

Gender and Imperialism                                   WHI 204

Fall 16                                                                         OH MW, 10-12; Tu Th, 2:30-3:30

 

In this survey of European hegemony (1763-1963), students will consider the degree to which modern constructions of gendered identity were produced against the backdrop of race. We will study imperial power relations at the level of the intimate: the home, the family, the body itself. We will explore how imperial institutions such as church and school, sports club and neighborhood emerged as hybrid entities, continuously modified by local circumstances and the agency of subject peoples.

 

Furthermore, as a diversity intensive course, History 357 enables students to:

  1. understand the socially constructed nature of identities.
  2. understand the significance of individuals’ differing relationships to power.
  3. understand how individuals, organizations, and institutions create, perpetuate, or challenge inequality.
  4. understand how multiple identities intersect.
  5. reevaluate their ideas about diversity and difference.

 

Finally, as an advanced History course, 357 facilitates student competency in:

–discipline specific writing

–integrating appropriate primary and secondary sources into an essay

–arguing a thesis

–mastering necessary formal conventions (stylistic; bibliographic)

 

TEXTS:

 

–Rizzo and Gerontakis, Intimate Empires: Body, Race and Gender in the Modern World. Oxford University Press, 2016.

 

–Burton, Richard, trans. Kama Sutra

https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/burton/richard/kama/

 

–Equiano, Olaudah. Interesting Narrative

http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/equiano1/menu.html

 

–Ruete, Emily. Memoirs of a Arabian Princess

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/ruete/arabian/arabian.html

 

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POLICIES

  1. Attendance is required. Unexcused absences will carry a penalty of ½ grade per day.
  2. Make up assignments will only be allowed in cases of emergency.
  3. Late work will be penalized with a half grade deduction per day.
  4. All work MUST BE YOUR OWN. Citations are required for all direct quotes and paraphrased information. Any assignment which includes plagiarized information will be failed.

 

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ACADEMIC ACCESSIBILITY:

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ASSIGNMENTS

Please note that all assignments must be turned in at the START of class on their due date.  Late work will be assessed a penalty of 5% per day of your grade for that assignment.  The first full day penalty begins at 6:30 on the due date. All work must be submitted electronically, either as a word doc attached to an email or as a google doc.

 

  1. Weekly reading response 20%

Each Wednesday by 5PM I will post three questions for the following week’s reading assignment. Write 100 words in answer to each (300 total). You must email your responses to me by 10AM the following Monday morning. Each response must refer to the general point of the entire assignment and cite something specific from the given reading. I will score these with on a scale from 1-3.

 

  1. Take home exams 30% (2 x 15%)

You will write a 5-7 page paper, typed, synthesizing and reflecting upon the material we have covered, at midterm and term’s end.  I will pose the question one week in advance. Successful essays will demonstrate appropriate writing competency, argue a clear thesis, reference films, and utilize direct quotes from all of the readings.  DATES: 10/24, 12/5

 

  1. Research paper 30%

The research paper (10-12 pages) will enable students to delve more deeply into a topic RELATED to the course. It must include five scholarly sources and five primary. DUE DATES: topic statement—9/26; annotated bibliography—10/17; first draft of historiography section; outline of remainder—11/28; final paper and presentations—12/12.

 

  1. Website 20%

Using Timeline or Story Map JS, teams of 3 students will design data visualizations for one chapter of the textbook. 8-10 visualizations (maps, concept maps, images, graphs, video) embedded in either a map or timeline and posted to our wordpress site. Successful contributions will be visually compelling, thorough, effectively presented and the fruit of cooperative work. Select group and chapter by 9/12; rough draft due 11/7; final 11/28

 

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SCHEDULE:

Week 1, 8/22: overview, Rizzo introduction

Week 2, 8/29: Masculinities: Rizzo 1; Equiano first half

Week 3, 9/5: Labor Day

Week 4, 9/12: Masculinities continued; finish Equiano

Week 5, 9/19: learning storymap and timeline, class in Kimmel

Week 6, 9/26: Femininities: Rizzo 2; research topic statements due

Week 7, 10/3: Hybridity, Rizzo 3; Ruete, first half

Week 8, 10/10: Fall break

Week 9, 10/17: Film and food: Passage to India; annotated bibliographies due

Week 10, 10/24: Ruete 2nd half; midterm exam due at 6PM

Week 11, 10/31: Material culture, Rizzo 4; Burton, selections

Week 12, 11/7: Pecha Kucha presentations on evolving website

Week 13, 11/14: Complex Embodiment, Rizzo 5

Week 14, 11/21 Resistance movements, Rizzo 6, conclusion

Week 15, 11/28: Film and food: “Indochine”; first draft of historiography section; outline of remainder; web project due

Week 16, 12/5: presentations; final exam due, 6PM

Week 17, 12/12: presentations; research paper due, 6PM