Schedule

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE

(NOTE:  Unless specified otherwise in the schedule below, all meeting rooms are in your designated seminar room, Johnson Center rooms a, b, c, d, e, f, g)

 

Date Topic Readings and Assignments Due
M, 8/29 Introduction to NCLC 101:  Experts and Narratives 

9:30-10:00 a.m. (Johnson Center (JC), Cinema):  Welcome to NCLC 101

10:00 a.m. Reading a Museum

10:30-12:00 (JC Rooms A-G):  Summer Reading Reception

 

 Guiding Questions for the Week: How are Mainstream Narratives Formed?  Who are the “Experts”?  How is Normal (in terms of identity) Defined? 

 

In-Class Exercise:  “I Am” Poem/“25 lines”

Assigned: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Hand Out/Collect:  Risk Release Forms
 

W, 8/31

  

FIELD TRIP: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

**ALL MEET @ VIENNA METRO, 9:00 a.m. **

  

Read for Today:

  • “Introduction for Students:  Active Reading, Critical Thinking, and the Writing Process” (p. 1-14, 50 Essays)
  • “Thinking Critically, Challenging Cultural Myths” (p. 1-15, Rereading)
  • “Regarding the Pain of Others” (p. 373-378, 50 Essays)

 

TR, 9/1

  

“Who are the Experts”—Narrative & Identity

 

 Re-visit: “I Am” 

Read for Today:

  • “Why Don’t We Complain?”: p. 76-82 (50 Essays)
  • “Allegory of the Cave”:  p. 292-299 (50 Essays)
  • “Mother Tongue” (p. 396-402, 50 Essays)

Due: Museum Response Paper on FRIDAY, 9/2 by 5:00 p.m. (email)

Prepare for NMAI visit

Week 2:  Foundations of Narrative, Literature and Identity

MONDAY, 9/6, LABOR DAY—NO CLASS J
 

W, 9/8

  

Literary Analysis and Cultural Texts

FIELD TRIP: National Museum of the American Indian

 

**MEET @ VIENNA METRO. 9:00 a.m. **

  

Read:  Flight, p. 1-106

 
 

TR, 9/9

 

Narrative and Identity

Guiding Questions: Who is the Expert (whose knowledge is valued)?  Who is in a position to tell the story? Who gets heard?

 

  

Read:  Flight, p. 107-181

In-Class Oral Reports: Oral Museum Report

 

Gorski, “Taco Night” (.pdf)
Thursday, September 9th: from 12-2 p.m., Fall Fiesta with food, drinks, and fellowship for all NCC Students, Faculty, and Staff, SUB II Ballroom

Week 3:  Immigration and Narrative

 

M, 9/12

  

Immigration and The Graphic Novel

  

Read: American Born Chinese

Assign: Digital Story (In-class Prompts)

Resource: Digital Story Cookbook http://www.storycenter.org/cookbook.html

 
W, 9/14  

9:00-11:00 Immigration

12:30-2:30 (Wiki & Digital Story)

Assign: Wiki 

Read for Today:

  • “My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” (José Vargas, New York Times) (You will need to locate this Essay, print it out, read it, and bring it to class)
  • “Child of the Americas” (p. 511, 50 Essays)
 

TR, 9/15

 

  

Immigration & Identity

 

 

  

Assign:  Critical Analysis Paper

Due: Email Seminar Leader your Wiki Link

Read for Today:

  • “Two Ways to Belong in America” (p. 280-283, 50 Essays)
  • “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” (p. 33-45, 50 Essays)
  • “The Myth of the Latin Woman:  I Just Met a Girl Named Maria” (p. 91-97, 50 Essays)
  • “Vietnamese American:  A Cultural Self-Portrait” (Mimi Wilson, handout)

Week 4: Race and Identity

 

M, 9/19

  

Narrative:  Race and Identity

  

Re-Visit: Henrietta Lacks

Read for Today:

  • “In Search of our Mother’s Gardens, (p. 420-430, 50 Essays)
  • Rustin, Bayard, “On Non-Violence” (handout)
  • Malcolm X (In-Class Speech)
  • “Ain’t I Woman”, (p. 410-411, 50 Essays)
 

W, 9/21

  

FIELD TRIP

“For All the World to See,” American Art Museum

(10:00-11:00, Seminars A-C)

(12:00-1:00, Seminars D-G)

AND

“Race—Are We So Different?” Natural History Museum

(10:00-11:30 D-G)

(11:30-1:00, A-C)

AND

Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, in between Jefferson and Lincoln Memorials

**MEET @ VIENNA METRO. 9:00 a.m. **

 

  

Read for Today:

  • “Just Walk on By” (p. 383-386, 50 Essays)
  • Martin Luther King, Jr. “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” (p.203-220, 50 Essays) [Read prior to visiting the Memorial]
 

 

TR, 9/22

  

Narrative:  Race and Identity

  

Due:  Digital Story

Read for Today:

  • “The Boy in the Mirror,” p. 409-421 ReReading
  • “On Being A Cripple” (p. 244-256, 50 Essays)
  • “The End of White America”, (p. 497-510, ReReading)
  • McIntosh, Peggy “On White Privilege” (handout)

Week 5:  Meritocracy/Equal Opportunity/Class

 

M, 9/26

 

  

Meritocracy

Writing Critiques

Ten Chairs Activity

 

  

Read for Today:

  • “Ragged Dick” (p. 258-263, ReReading)
  • “Horatio Alger” (p. 272-278, ReReading)
  • “Class in America—2006” (p. 304-319, ReReading)
  • “On Dumpster Diving” (p. 146-158, 50 Essays)
 

W, 9/28

  

Theme:  Class & Identity

Faces of Homelessness Panel & Homelessness Simulation

  

Assign:  Considering Our Lenses

Assign:  Conference

Read for Today:

  • Brooks, Gwendolyn, “Lovers of the Poor” (.pdf)
  • “Serving in Florida” (p. 136-45, 50 Essays)
  • “Still Separate, Still Unequal” (p. 219-237, ReReading)
  • In-Class Visual Portfolio, p. 321-28, ReReading
TR, 9/29 Theme:  Class and Identity Due:  Critical Analysis Paper 

9:30-11:00 Meet in Seminar Room for Discussion & Writing Workshop

Read for Today: “On Compassion” (46-49, 50 Essays)

 

Week 6: Gender & Identity

 

M, 10/3

  

Theme:  Gender and Identity

  

Read for Today:

  • “Becoming Members of Society:  Learning Social Meanings of Gender” (p.527-536, ReReading)
  • “The Men We Carry in Our Minds” (p. 346-351, 50 Essays)
  • “Assimilation” (p. 483-496 ReReading)

Group Work:  Arranging Conference Presentation Panels
 

W, 10/5

  

Theme:  Gender, Media and Identity

  

Due: Considering our Lenses Paper

Due: Group Abstract (Emailed to Seminar Leader)

Read for Today:

  • “Two Ways A Woman Can Get Hurt” (p. 575-599, ReReading)
  • In-Class:  Visual Portfolio (322-329, Re-Reading)
  • “The Story of My Body” (p. 537-546, ReReading)
 

TR, 10/6

  

Theme:  Masculinity, Bodies, and Identity

  

Read for Today:

  • “Bros Before Hos”:  The Guy Code (p. 608-617, ReReading)
  • “Dying to Be Bigger” (.pdf)
  • “Adventure of an Atypical Boy” (wowthatsawful.wordpress.com)

Week 7:  Narrative & Identity—A Celebration of Learning

 

M, 10/10

 

Columbus Day Recess—No Class Today

*****NOTE:  MONDAY CLASSES MEET TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11th*****
 

T, 10/11

  

9:30-12:00 (Seminar)

Video on Public Speaking & Conference Preparation

 

  

Read for Today:

“On Morality” (p. 106-111, 50 Essays)

Frye, Marilyn—“On Oppression” (.pdf)

Due:  Critical Analysis
 

W, 10/12

  

NCLC 101:  Narratives of Identity Conference, 9:30-2:30

Room assignments and Specific Conference Times TBA

9:30-10:30:  Panel #1

10:35-11:35:  Panel #2

11:40-12:20:  LUNCH

12:25-1:25:  Panel #3

1:30-2:30: Panel #4
 

TR, 10/13

  

Learning Community Reflection and Course Evaluations

Integrative Studies and Cornerstones


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