Final Exam Info & Study Guide

When: Tuesday, May 4, 1:30-3:20
Where: Classroom, 119 Old Main

The final exam is optional. If you are satisfied with the grade you earned for blog entries (15%), you may opt not to take the final exam (10%). If you take this option, the grade you earn for the blog entries is 25% of your grade for the course.

Final grades for your Gender, History & Hollywood presentations or essays will be posted on Blackboard, Friday, April 30. You may pick up the grading feedback forms for these presentations beginning Monday, May 3, in the JCOM office (8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.). Based on these grades and the grades your team earned for the other class assignments (all grades are on Blackboard) you will be able to calculate your approximate grade for WGS 1010 and decide whether you want to take the final. Please note: If you take the final, the grade you earns counts, regardless of whether the exam grade raises or lowers your final grade for the course.

Please do NOT ask me to calculate your grade before the final exam. I will not calculate grades for the class until AFTER the final exam. You will need to do your own math. The percentage breakdown for each assignment and for each grade (A, B, C, D) is explained in detail on your syllabus.

FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE
Your final exam will consist of 4-5 essay questions based on the material we’ve covered during the semester (e.g., lectures, readings, class presentations, documentaries, etc.). Overall, you should be prepared to define and discuss the following gender concepts and theories covered in class and in your readings, and be prepared to apply the assumptions underlying these concepts and theories to specific gender and feminism examples.

• Concepts, theories & controversies
Biological essentialism
Androcentrism (male-centeredness)
Gender polarization
Patriarchy
Androgyny
Gender schematic
Gender aschematic
White Privilege & racism
Stages of feminist awareness
Heterosexuality & masculinity
Homophobia, heterosexism, sexual prejudice
Sexual identity, sexual orientation
Sexual minorities & civil rights
Sexuality and rights for same-sex couples
Women & Military

Death of "godmother of the women's movement"

Dorothy Heights dies: Founder and four-decade-long president of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW)

The undaunted Dorothy Height
UPON HER DEATH Tuesday, Dorothy I. Height was hailed a hero, the grande dame of the civil rights movement, an icon. She was all of those things. Yet somehow words fail to capture what was so remarkable about this woman who fought for so long, and with such tenacity, dignity and resolve, for racial justice and gender equality.

Remembering Dorothy Height

Civil Rights Pioneer, Dorothy Height, Dies at 98: NBC Nightly News video

Life in pictures: US civil rights pioneer Dorothy Height

Grading Feedback Form: Gender, History & Hollywood

5=Excellent
4=Above average
3=Average
2=Below average
1=Unacceptable

_____ Ability to identity major themes/arguments in the film and compare to historical facts in the women’s lives
_____ Clearly identified how challenges to patriarchal gender norms were depicted in movies
_____ Presented the information in clear, concise way
_____ Related your topic to appropriate gender concepts from readings & lectures (e.g. stages of feminist consciousness, etc.)
_____ Familiarity with the material (e.g., did not read notes)
_____ Ability to involve students in discussion of film and women’s life histories
_____ Organization of presentation
_____ Organization/quality of film clips
_____ Organization/content of outline

WGS Summer & Fall courses

Summer 2010
FCHD 3110 Human Sexuality (online only). Kim Openshaw. Pre-requisites: FCHD 1500 & FCHD 2400.
HIST 4910 Women in Islam (online only). Debra Baldwin.

Fall 2010
ARTH 4610/WGS 4710: Greek and Roman Art, MW, 4:00-5:15, Alexa Sand.
ENGL 2170 (002) American Literary History 1865 to Present. MWF 11:30-12:20. Steve Shively.
ENGL 3520 (001) Multicultural American Literature. MWF 2:30-3:20. Steve Shively.
FCHD 3110 Human Sexuality. MWF, 10:30-11:20. Kim Openshaw. Pre-requisites: FCHD 1500 & FCHD 2400.
JCOM 4410/6410 & WGS 4410/6410 Gender & Mass Media. TR 3:00-2:45. Brenda Cooper
SOC 3010 Social Inequality: Race, Class, and Gender. MWF 10:30-11:20. Staff.
SOC 4370 Sociology of Gender. MW 1:30-2:45, Matt Cottrell.
WGS 4900 Directed Study (1-3 credits). Instructor Permission Required. WGS Staff.

Team member evaluation form: Gender, History & Hollywood

Click here for the form. Evaluations are due the day your team presents to the class.

For your entertainment—End of Semester Laughs

Tina Fey's back on SNL as Sarah Palin. Click here for clip—Sarah Palin Network.

Week 13—April 15

New URL below with video of Tori Amos singing the entire song, "Me & a Gun," at a concert and new URL to the unedited version of TLC's "Unpretty" Leilani mentioned in class. And new one from Anne below:

India Arie: "Because I am a Queen"

April 15—Unapologetic Women & Rock 'n Roll. For your final blog post (YAY!!) respond to the lyrics from some of the women artists below. If you have a song that challenges dominant gender norms to add to this list, please post as comment.

Ani DiFranco
Righteous Babe Records
If He Tries Anything
Not a Pretty Girl

Tori Amos: Me and a Gun
Mary Chapin Carpenter: He Thinks He'll Keep Her
Pink: Stupid Girls
TLC: Unpretty: New link with unedited version Leilani mentioned in class yesterday.
Tracy Chapman: Why

Dixie Chicks
Goodbye Earl
Not Ready to Make Nice
Sin Wagon
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In-class links:
Ani DiFranco
Righteous Babe Records
If He Tries Anything
Not a Pretty Girl

Tori Amos: Me and a Gun —New URL with Tori Amos singing the entire song at a concert.
Mary Chapin Carpenter: He Thinks He'll Keep Her
Pink: Stupid Girls
TLC: Unpretty
Tracy Chapman: Why

Dixie Chicks
Goodbye Earl
Not Ready to Make Nice
Sin Wagon