January 15: Systems of Privilege Chapters 1 and 2 Class Outline

What will we do in class?

• Class business and announcements
• Mini-Lecture by Dr. Hudock - "When is Privilege Not Really Privilege?"including video clips from:
• Tough Guise
• Tough Guise 2
• The Boy Code
• Michael Kimmel On Gender
• Discussion of readings:
• get into a new group
• pick an essay to discuss (every group needs to have a different one)
• discuss
• get ready to teach the essay to the rest of the class
• choose a presentor
• present the essay to the class
• Break
• Discussion of interview results
  
• Stay in your group
• Discuss your interview
• Time to take the interview skills on the road. You have interviewed someone you know, now you are going to interview someone you don't know. 
• Come up with a few questions to ask someone your own age about the issues we've been discussing. 
• Go out onto campus
• Pick someone your own age to interview. 
• If you have video capability, you can video the interviews and upload the video to YouTube.  Email me the link. I can then put it on the class blog. 
• Gather your research on what young women and men on your campus today think about feminism and gender issues
• Come back to class to share your research.
• Sum up class
• Discuss next week's assignments