Assignments

Critical Essay & Question Presentation (10%) -- You will be a required to sign up for an oral presentation during the course of the quarter. For your presentation, you will read the texts assigned for a particular week, research a scholarly essay relevant to the texts and course, distribute the essay to the class the week prior, generate a critical question or two, and get the class discussion started for the day.

Creative Responses (10%) -- You will write your own to explore and demonstrate the ideas and goals of the course. You will write a personal statement, a short-short story, complete a drawing, and a critical review. These creative responses will be evaluated on completion and your critical, thoughtful engagement with the prompts.

Short Papers (30%) -- You will complete a number of short, analytical, and academic papers. These papers rehearse a range of genres, rhetorical situations, course goals, and engage the 3060J outcomes. You will write an academic summary, a close reading, a brief annotated bibliography, a research proposal memo, and self-assessment cover letter. They will be graded on clarity, focus, coherence, whether they satisfy the assignment, revision, and on your ability to concisely formulate arguments.

Final Paper/Project (20%) -- You will complete a Final Project that integrates what you have read, explored, and written about in your previous papers, that draws on specific terms, concepts, or issues from the class, and that articulates the critical value of feminist science fiction. The project asks you to make connections and to create an argument across different kinds of evidence and added research. Your final project can be a traditional research paper, a media production (which includes a substantive analytical component), or a hybrid of the two.

Information Sheets

The following are handouts, informational sheets, and readings that will be assigned or used over the course of the quarter. Each student will recieve a copy of each as a handout in class during the appropriate week. If you miss a sheet, feel free to print out a new copy.

Ed's Top Ten List of "Ways to Survive University"

Ed's Top Ten Rules of Writing

Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing

MLA Citation and Bibliographic Format

What is Close Reading?

Readings

Course texts are available via the Ohio University online bookstore (or through any reputable bookseller). Shorter readings are available via the course Blackboard. The required texts for this class are:

Le Guin, Ursula K. The Left Hand of Darkness. New York: Ace, 2000. Le Guin, Ursula K. The Dispossessed. New York, 2014. Tiptree, James. Her Smoke Rose Up Forever. San Francisco: Tachyon Publications, 2004. Butler, Octavia E. Bloodchild and Other Stories. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2005. Butler, Octavia E. Lilith's Brood. New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2000. Lai, Larissa. Salt Fish Girl. Toronto, ON: Thomas Allen Publishers, 2002. Okorafor, Nnedi. Binti. New York: Tor, 2015.

Consult the course syllabus for the week's required reading. The following is a full bibliographical list of the class readings:

Butler, Octavia E. Bloodchild and Other Stories. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2005. ---. Lilith's Brood. New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2000. Ferguson, Robert A. "Race." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007. 191-196. Halberstam, Judith. "Gender." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007. 116-120. Lai, Larissa. Salt Fish Girl. Toronto, ON: Thomas Allen Publishers, 2002. Le Guin, Ursula K. The Dispossessed. New York, 2014. ---. The Left Hand of Darkness. New York: Ace, 2000. Okorafor, Nnedi. Binti. New York: Tor, 2015. Somerville, Siobhan B. "Queer." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007. 187-191. Tiptree, James. Her Smoke Rose Up Forever. San Francisco: Tachyon Publications, 2004.

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