Posts Tagged ‘syllabi’
new fall course: “Histories of Anti-Capitalism”!
I’ve got a great schedule lined up for Fall: a special version of my Tolkien course partnering with UWM and linking up with the Haggerty’s “Art of the Manuscript” exhibit, and a grad special topics course called “Histories of Anti-Capitalism.” Here’s a course description — suggestions very welcome!
Other English Fall course descriptions are trickling in here…
Course Title: Histories of Anti-Capitalism
Coure Description: “We live in capitalism,” Ursula K. Le Guin once said. “Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.” This course will take a long view of anti-capitalist thought, from the Luddite revolt of the early nineteenth century to the ongoing climate strikes of Greta Thunberg—investigating where resistance to capitalism has flourished and where it has failed, as well as where it has intersected with important trends in feminist, antiracist, anticolonial, LGBTQ+, ecological, and disability activism. We will also explore the speculative literary genre of utopia, and explore how its utopian, quasi-utopian, heterotopian, dystopian, and downright anti-utopian figurations have reflected, inspired, and critiqued the left’s centuries-long struggle against capitalist realism.
Readings: We will consider a wide mix of literary, historical, and critical-theoretical documents of anti-capitalist and counter-hegemonic thought from the last two-hundred-plus years. A final reading list is still being constructed (and very open to suggestions!), but major literary authors could include such figures as Edward Bellamy, Samuel Butler, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Chinua Achebe, Gene Roddenberry, Ursula K. Le Guin, Octavia E. Butler, and Kim Stanley Robinson, and major theorists could include Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, Fredric Jameson, Mark Fisher, C.L.R. James, Frantz Fanon, bell hooks, Vandana Shiva, Enrique Dussel, Donna Haraway, David Graeber, and José Esteban Muñoz, among many others.
Assignments: Final critical paper or creative project; symposium presentation; weekly sandbox posts on D2L; enthusiastic and informed class participation
Brand New Semester, Same Old Pandemic
I’ve finally beaten my syllabi into shape for the semester:
ENGLISH 3241: “Crafting the Short Story” (my summer/J-term lit/creative writing hybrid, now in person!)
ENGLISH 4716/5716: “Classics of Science Fiction” (featuring Slaughterhouse-Five, The Female Man, Kindred, Ted Chiang, The Fifth Season, and a NCAA-style tournament to determine which 1980s SF movie we’re going to watch instead of reading Neuromancer)
Comments and suggestions welcome, as always!
A Hypercontemporary Literature Syllabus! And More!
The first week is already over and I realized I never got around to putting up my syllabi. I’m teaching two classes this semester, an all-Zoom revision of my Tolkien class and an all-Zoom survey of 21st Century Literature that I decided to focus on texts from more or less the last two years. (I also have an independent study on Gender and Sexuality in New Wave SF that’s been terrific; no formal syllabus for that one but we’re reading Le Guin, Russ, Delany, Tiptree, Lem, the Tarkovskys, all your faves.)
Thanks so much to everyone on Facebook and Twitter who flooded me with suggestions for the 21st Century course. In the end I was so overwhelmed by the possibilities I solicited suggestions directly from the students, which allowed me to craft a syllabus that was both inside and outside my usual wheelhouse, hopefully in ways that will be fun for both my students and myself. And we still get to be surely the first class in the world to study Ishiguro’s new book.
The syllabus doesn’t list the films they picked, but our class vote landed on Parasite and Soul for the last two weeks of class, an intriguing dialectic arraying the full possibilities of the human experience…
synch | M | 1/25 | FIRST DAY OF CLASS |
synch | W | 1/27 | Among Us game and thinkpieces [D2L] |
asynch | F | 1/29 | Giorgio Agamben, “What Is the Contemporary?” [D2L] |
synch | M | 2/1 | PLAY/MOVIE: Heidi Schreck, What the Constitution Means to Me (including bonus material) [Amazon Prime] |
synch | W | 2/3 | What the Constitution Means to Me discussion continues |
asynch | F | 2/5 | POEM: Andrea Gorman, “The Hill We Climb” [D2L] and online reactions |
synch | M | 2/8 | SHORT STORY: N.K. Jemisin, “Emergency Skin” [Amazon Kindle] |
synch | W | 2/10 | SHORT STORY: Ted Chiang, “Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom” [online] |
asynch | F | 2/12 | Jemisin and Chiang sandbox assignment |
synch | M | 2/15 | COMIC: Chris Ware, Rusty Brown, Vol. 1, part one |
synch | W | 2/17 | COMIC: Chris Ware, Rusty Brown, Vol. 1, part two |
asynch | F | 2/19 | COMIC: Chris Ware, Rusty Brown, Vol. 1, part three sandbox assignment |
synch | M | 2/22 | COMIC: Chris Ware, Rusty Brown, Vol. 1, part three discussion |
synch | W | 2/24 | COMIC: Chris Ware, Rusty Brown, Vol. 1, part four |
asynch | F | 2/26 | Haruki Murakami, “Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey” [D2L]optional: Haruki Murakami, “A Shinagawa Monkey” [D2L] |
synch | M | 3/1 | Haruki Murakami, “Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey” discussion |
synch | W | 3/3 | Hades [Steam or Nintendo Switch] |
asynch | F | 3/5 | Hades sandbox assignment |
synch | M | 3/8 | Hades discussion continues |
W | 3/10 | UNIVERSITY MENTAL HEALTH DAY—NO CLASS | |
asynch | F | 3/12 | Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future, chapters 1-16 CLOSE READING DUE |
synch | M | 3/15 | Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future, chapters 17-30 |
synch | W | 3/17 | Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future, chapters 31-45 |
asynch | F | 3/19 | Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future, chapters 46-60 |
synch | M | 3/22 | Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future, chapters 61-74 |
synch | W | 3/24 | Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future, chapters 75-90 |
asynch | F | 3/26 | Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future, whole book |
synch | M | 3/29 | Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future and responses |
synch | W | 3/31 | Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future and responses |
F | 4/2 | GOOD FRIDAY—NO CLASS | |
synch | M | 4/5 | Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun (page range TBD) |
synch | W | 4/7 | Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun (page range TBD) |
asynch | F | 4/9 | Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun (page range TBD) |
synch | M | 4/12 | Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun (page range TBD) |
synch | W | 4/14 | Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun (page range TBD) |
asynch | F | 4/16 | Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun (page range TBD) MINISTRY RESPONSE DUE |
synch | M | 4/19 | CREATIVE NONFICTION: Zadie Smith, Intimations (first half) |
synch | W | 4/21 | CREATIVE NONFICTION: Zadie Smith, Intimations (second half) |
asynch | F | 4/23 | MOVIE or TV SHOW TBD |
synch | M | 4/26 | MOVIE or TV SHOW TBD |
synch | W | 4/28 | MOVIE or TV SHOW TBD |
asynch | F | 4/30 | MOVIE or TV SHOW TDB |
synch | M | 5/3 | MOVIE or TV SHOW TBD |
W | 5/5 | UNIVERSITY MENTAL HEALTH DAY—NO CLASS | |
synch | F | 5/7 | LAST DAY OF CLASS INTIMATION DUE |
The Syllabus as Apology
My full Fall 2020 syllabi are done, so I thought I’d post them as an example of one way to talk about format and special circumstances this semester. The key language is below as a screenshot. My thanks for my colleagues for their help in thinking through this stuff, especially to Angela Sorby, who gave me the original “special circumstances” language that I modified below.
Fall Syllabus #2: ENGLISH 3000: Utopia in America!
And here’s the other course for this fall, “ENGLISH 3000: Utopia in America.” Like the Watchmen class, it will be using a mix of synchronous and asynchronous instruction to muddle through this weird semester…
101 MWF 11:00-11:50 Professor Gerry Canavan
Course Title: Utopia in America
Course Description: 2020 marks the 505th anniversary of Sir Thomas More’s Utopia, which inaugurated a genre of political and social speculation that continues to structure our imagination of what is possible. This course serves as an entry point for advanced study in the English discipline, using depictions of political utopias from antiquity to the present as a way to explore how both literature and literary criticism do their work. We will study utopia in canonical historical literature, in contemporary pop culture, and in the presidential election, as well as utopian critical theory from major thinkers like Fredric Jameson, China Miéville, Derrick Bell, Toni Morrison, Ursula K. Le Guin, and N.K. Jemisin — but the major task before us will be exploring the role utopian, quasi-utopian, dystopian, and downright anti-utopian figurations have played in the work of major authors of the 20th century, among them Gabriel García Márquez, Vladimir Nabokov, and Octavia E. Butler.
Assignments: Class participation, including individual and group presentations; discussion posts. Students will also construct their own utopian manifesto.
W | Aug 26 | S | FIRST DAY OF CLASS
Introduction to the Course What Is Utopia? |
F | Aug 28 | A | New Criticism
How to Interpret Literature: “New Criticism” Robert Frost, “Mending Wall” [D2L] |
M | Aug 31 | S | Sir Thomas More, Utopia, “Concerning” and Book One |
W | Sep 2 | S | Sir Thomas More, Utopia, Book Two |
F | Sep 4 | A | China Miéville, Introduction to Utopia (2017): “Close to the
Shore” and “The Limits of Utopia” |
M | Sep 7 | LABOR DAY—NO CLASS | |
W | Sep 9 | S | Structuralism
How to Interpret Literature: “Structuralism” Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” [D2L] |
F | Sep 11 | A | Intertextuality
N.K. Jemisin, reply to Le Guin [Web] |
M | Sep 14 | S | Marxism
How to Interpret Literature: “Marxism” Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels, “The Communist Manifesto” [Web] Mark Bould, “The Futures Market: American Utopias” [D2L] |
W | Sep 16 | S | Utopia
Fredric Jameson, “Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture” (first half; second half optional) [D2L] Black Mirror: “San Junipero” [Netflix] |
F | Sep 18 | A | Sandbox: Fredric Jameson, “Utopia as Replication” [D2L] |
M | Sep 21 | S | Postcoloniality and Race Studies
How to Interpret Literature: “Postcolonial and Race Studies” Derrick Bell, “The Space Traders” [D2L] |
W | Sep 23 | S | Toni Morrison, “Recitatif” [D2L]
Toni Morrison, excerpt from Playing in the Dark [D2L] |
F | Sep 25 | A | Sandbox: #BlackLivesMatter Syllabus [Web] |
M | Sep 28 | S | Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Chapter 1 |
W | Sep 30 | S | One Hundred Years of Solitude, Chapters 2-3 |
F | Oct 2 | A | Sandbox: One Hundred Years of Solitude, Chapters 4-6 |
M | Oct 5 | S | One Hundred Years of Solitude, Chapters 7-9 |
W | Oct 7 | S | One Hundred Years of Solitude, Chapters 10-12 |
F | Oct 9 | A | Sandbox: One Hundred Years of Solitude, Chapters 13-15 |
M | Oct 12 | S | One Hundred Years of Solitude, Chapters 16-18 |
W | Oct 14 | S | One Hundred Years of Solitude, whole book
Gabriel García Márquez, “The Solitude of Latin America” [Web] Gregory Lawrence, “Marx in Macondo” [D2L] |
F | Oct 16 | FALL BREAK—NO CLASS | |
M | Oct 19 | S | Feminism
How to Interpret Literature: “Feminism” Karen Joy Fowler, “Game Night at the Fox and Goose” [D2L] |
W | Oct 21 | S | Sexuality
How to Interpret Literature: “Queer Studies” Alice Sheldon as James Tiptree, Jr., “Houston, Houston, Do You Read?” [D2L] |
F | Oct 23 | A | Sandbox: Octavia E. Butler, “Bloodchild” |
M | Oct 26 | S | Environmental Studies
How to Interpret Literature: “Environmental Criticism” Ramin Bahrani, “Plastic Bag” [YouTube] |
W | Oct 28 | S | Disability Studies
How to Interpret Literature: “Disability Studies” Octavia E. Butler, “The Evening and the Morning and the Night” Octavia E. Butler, “Speech Sounds” |
F | Oct 30 | A | Sandbox: Octavia E. Butler, “The Book of Martha” |
M | Nov 2 | S | Historicism and Cultural Studies
How to Interpret Literature: “Historicism and Cultural Studies” Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire, “Foreword” and “Pale Fire” |
W | Nov 4 | S | Pale Fire, “Foreword and “Pale Fire” continued |
F | Nov 6 | A | Sandbox |
M | Nov 9 | S | Pale Fire, Commentary, Canto I |
W | Nov 11 | S | Pale Fire, Commentary, Canto II |
F | Nov 13 | A | Sandbox |
M | Nov 16 | S | Pale Fire, Commentary, Canto III |
W | Nov 18 | S | Pale Fire, Commentary, Canto IV (including index) |
F | Nov 20 | A | Reader Response
How to Interpret Literature: “Reader Response” Pale Fire, whole book and interpretations |
M | Nov 23 | S | FINAL PROJECT WORKSHOP |
F | Dec 4
5:30 PM |
FINAL PROJECT DUE IN D2L DROPBOX |
Submitted for Your Approval: Syllabus for ENGLISH 4717/5717: WATCHMEN!
Since a lot of people have been interested in it, and I’m still trying to figure it all out, here’s the preliminary schedule for my Watchmen class this fall. This one will be an all-online class, as that’s the modality I’m in this semester; I’m using an S/S/A schedule where we do MW class sessions synchronously and F class sessions asynchronously. Most of the Friday classes are in the “sandbox” mode described here, some with suggested prompts and some completely open. The class has 30 people in it, so those synchronous sessions may need to break up to 15 and 15; I want to give it a try with the whole group for a week or two before I switch. Final assignment is a long paper or creative/curational project with at least some connection to Watchmen, comics, or American cultural studies, very, very broadly conceived…
Any and all suggestions welcome! I missed the first COVID semester due to my sabbatical so this is all still a bit new to me. I’m excited though: this class started in my mind as a lark and now I think it’s going to be one of the best syllabi I’ve ever planned.
101 MWF 12:00-12:50 Professor Gerry Canavan
Course Title: Watchmen
Fulfills English Major Requirement: Post-1900, American Literature
Course Description: This course surveys the history, reception, and artistic form of comics and graphic narrative in the United States, with primary exploration of a single comic miniseries that has had a massive influence on the comics industry and on the way we think about superheroes: Alan Moore and David Gibbons’s Watchmen (1986-1987). This semester ENGLISH 4717 will function almost like a single-novel “Text in Context” course; after grounding ourselves in the pre-1980s history of American superhero comics over the first few weeks of the course, we will focusing almost exclusively on Watchmen and its long afterlife in prequel comics, sequel comics, parody comics, homages, critiques, film adaptations, and, most recently, the critically acclaimed HBO sequel series (2019-2020). What has made Watchmen so beloved, so controversial, and so very influential on the larger superhero-industrial-entertainment complex? Why has DC Comics returned to Watchmen again and again, even as one of its original creators has distanced himself further and further from the work? What have different creators done, or tried to do, with the complex but self-contained narrative framework originally constructed by Moore and Gibbons? With superheroes and superhero media more globally hegemonic than ever before, what might Watchmen still have to say to us today?
Assignments: Class participation, including individual and group presentations; weekly reading journal; discussion posts; several out-of-class film screenings; one long seminar paper or creative/curational project
W | Aug 26 | S | FIRST DAY OF CLASS
Introduction to the Course A Brief Prehistory of Comics |
F | Aug 28 | A | Sandbox: Jim Henley, “Gaudy Nights” [Web] |
M | Aug 31 | S | The Golden Age of Comics
Action Comics #1 Selections from Wonder Woman |
W | Sep 2 | S | The Silver Age
Superboy #1 [D2L] Umberto Eco, “The Myth of Superman” [D2L] excerpts from David Hadju’s The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic- Book Scare and How It Changed America and Qiana Q. Whitted, EC Comics: Race, Shock, and Social Protest [D2L] |
F | Sep 4 | A | Sandbox: The Marvel Explosion
Fantastic Four #1, Tales of Suspense #39, X-Men #1, and Hulk #1 |
M | Sep 7 | LABOR DAY—NO CLASS | |
W | Sep 9 | S | The Bronze Age
Saul Braun, “Shazam! Here Comes Captain Relevant” [D2L] Green Lantern/Green Arrow #76, Amazing Spider-Man #121 and Iron Man #128 [D2L] Spencer Ackerman, “Iron Man vs. the Imperialists” [D2L] Gail Simone, “Women in Refrigerators” [web] |
F | Sep 11 | A | Sandbox: Marc Singer, “‘Black Skins’ and White Masks: Comic Books and the Secret of Race” [D2L] |
M | Sep 14 | S | The Dark Age
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, Watchmen (1986-1987), #1-3 |
W | Sep 16 | S | Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, Watchmen (1986-1987), #4-6 |
F | Sep 18 | A | Sandbox |
M | Sep 21 | S | Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, Watchmen (1986-1987), #7-9
Anna C. Marshall, “Not So Revisionary: The Regressive Treatment of Gender in Alan Moore’s Watchmen” [D2L] |
W | Sep 23 | S | Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, Watchmen (1986-1987), #10-12
Matthew Wolf-Meyer, “Utopias in the Superhero Comic, Subculture, and the Conservation of Difference” [D2L] |
F | Sep 25 | A | Sandbox: Watchmen sequel pitch session |
M | Sep 28 | S | Watchmen (dir. Zack Snyder, 2009)
Graham J. Murphy, “‘On a More Meaningful Scale’: Marketing Utopia in Watchmen” [D2L] Jacob Brogan, “Stop/Watch: Repressing History, Adapting Watchmen” [D2L] |
W | Sep 30 | S | Andrew Hoberek, Considering Watchmen: Poetics, Property, Politics (excerpts) [D2L]
Kieron Gillen and Caspar Wijingaard, Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt Alan Moore interviews (excerpts) [D2L] |
F | Oct 2 | A | Sandbox: Watchmen criticism survey |
M | Oct 5 | S | The Nostalgia Age?
Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely, All-Star Superman (first half) |
W | Oct 7 | S | Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely, All-Star Superman (second half) |
F | Oct 9 | A | Sandbox: Watchmen vs. the MCU |
M | Oct 12 | S | Natacha Bustos, Amy Reeder, and Brandon Montclare, Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur: The Beginning (first half) |
W | Oct 14 | S | Natacha Bustos, Amy Reeder, and Brandon Montclare, Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur: The Beginning (second half) |
F | Oct 16 | FALL BREAK—NO CLASS
PROJECT PROPOSAL DUE FRIDAY NIGHT 5 PM |
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M | Oct 19 | S | Before Watchmen (2012-2013): Minutemen and Silk Spectre |
W | Oct 21 | S | Before Watchmen (2012-2013): Dr. Manhattan |
F | Oct 23 | A | Sandbox |
M | Oct 26 | S | Doomsday Clock (2017-2019), Book One |
W | Oct 28 | S | Doomsday Clock (2017-2019), Book Two |
F | Oct 30 | A | Sandbox |
M | Nov 2 | S | Watchmen (HBO 2019-2020), episode 1 |
W | Nov 4 | S | Watchmen (HBO 2019-2020), episodes 2-3
interview with Damon Lindelof [Web] |
F | Nov 6 | A | Sandbox |
M | Nov 9 | S | Watchmen (HBO 2019-2020), episodes 4-5
interview with Lila Byock [Web] |
W | Nov 11 | S | Watchmen (HBO 2019-2020), episode 6
interview with Cord Jefferson [Web] thinkpieces by Emily Nussbaum, Jamelle Bouie, Jorge Cotte, Jaime Omar Yassin, and others [Web] |
F | Nov 13 | A | Sandbox |
M | Nov 16 | S | Watchmen (HBO 2019-2020), episodes 7-8 |
W | Nov 18 | S | Watchmen (HBO 2019-2020), episode 9
Aaron Bady, “Dr. Manhattan Is a Cop: Watchmen and Frantz Fanon” [Web] Leslie Lee, “Whitewashing Watchmen” [Web] Alyssa Rosenberg, “If HBO makes a second season of ‘Watchmen…” [Web] |
F | Nov 20 | A | Sandbox: Watchmen season two pitch session |
M | Nov 23 | S | Rorschach #1 (2020)
LAST DAY OF CLASS |
Th | Dec 3
12:30 PM |
FINAL PAPER/PROJECT DUE IN D2L DROPBOX
FINAL REFLECTION DUE IN THE D2L FORUMS |
Summer Syllabus: “21st Century Comics”
It’s been hectic enough around here that I’ve neglected to post the syllabus for my comics class this summer, rebranded this time around as “21st Century Comics” due to some repeat students in the class. Check it out! Here’s the week-by-week reading schedule:
DATE | READINGS AND ASSIGNMENTS | |
M | 5/20 | Introduction to the Course
Action Comics #1 (in class) |
T | 5/21 | Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics, chapters 1-4 |
W | 5/22 | The Silver Age
Superboy #1 [D2L] Umberto Eco, “The Myth of Superman” [D2L] Fantastic Four #1, Tales of Suspense #39, X-Men #1, and Hulk #1 [D2L] |
Th | 5/23 | The Bronze Age and the Dark Age
The Amazing Spider-Man #121 and Iron Man #128 [D2L] Saul Braun, “Shazam! Here Comes Captain Relevant” [D2L] Spencer Ackerman, “Iron Man vs. the Imperialists” [D2L] Watchmen (film clips) (in class) Batman v. Superman, The Marvel Cinematic Universe, etc. (in class) |
M | 5/27 | MEMORIAL DAY—NO CLASS |
T | 5/28 | Warren Ellis and John Cassady, Planetary, Book One (first half) |
W | 5/29 | Warren Ellis and John Cassady, Planetary, Book One (second half) |
Th | 5/30 | Warren Ellis and John Cassady, Planetary, Book Two (whole book) |
M | 6/3 | Mark Millar and Dave Johnson, Superman: Red Son (first third) |
T | 6/4 | Mark Millar and Dave Johnson, Superman: Red Son (whole book) |
W | 6/5 | G. Woodrow Wilson and Adrian Alphona, Ms. Marvel, vol. 1 |
Th | 6/6 | G. Woodrow Wilson, Jacob Wyatt, and Adrian Alphona, Ms. Marvel, vol. 2 |
Sat | 6/8 | TAKE-HOME MIDTERM EXAMS DUE BY 5 PM |
M | 6/10 | Chris Ware, Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth (first half) |
T | 6/11 | Chris Ware, Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth (second half) |
W | 6/12 | Chris Ware, Building Stories (workshop) |
Th | 6/13 | Chris Ware, Building Stories (discussion) |
M | 6/17 | Ben Passmore, “Your Black Friend”
Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 1 (first half) |
T | 6/18 | Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 1 (second half) |
W | 6/19 | Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2 (whole book) |
Th | 6/20 | David Mazzhuchelli, Asterios Polyp (first third) |
M | 6/24 | David Mazzhuchelli, Asterios Polyp (second third) |
T | 6/25 | David Mazzhuchelli, Asterios Polyp (whole book) |
W | 6/26 | Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon, Daytripper (first half) |
Th | 6/27 | Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon, Daytripper (second half)
Thierry Groensteen, “Why Are Comics Still in Search of Cultural Legitimization?” |
Sat | 6/22 | TAKE-HOME FINAL EXAMS DUE BY 5 PM |