Postcolonial and Transnational Feminisms

Student Learning Outcomes, Goals, Objectives:

Students successfully completing this course will be able to:

College Writing Specific

• Analyze written texts to understand how they relate to particular audiences, purposes, and contexts as a way to inform one's own writing.

• Create and revise written texts for particular audiences, purposes, and contexts.

• Through oral or written reflection, demonstrate awareness of one's writing choices as well as how one's own writing contributes to ongoing conversations in the relevant discipline.

College Culture Specific

• Find, interpret, and evaluate information on diverse global cultures.

• Use diverse cultural frames of reference and alternative perspectives to analyze issues.

Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Specific

• To explain gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, nationality, and religion from the perspective of postcolonial and transnational frameworks of analysis.

• To identify how feminist theories are constructed and enacted both inside and outside of the classroom.

• To identify the intellectual paradigms and political perspectives of different modes of knowledge production or interdisciplinary methodologies.

• To analyze scholarship and a variety of media in order to create original arguments in writing.

Course Grading Information:

Activity/Performance Measure	Percentage/Points
Major Written Assessments	See chart below
Peer Critique	See chart below
Discussion Leader	See chart below
Rough Drafts	See chart below
Class discussion preparation	See chart below
In-class participation/formative journal	See chart below
Attendance	See chart below

To earn a grade, you need to complete all the requirements for that grade. Plus and minus grades will be determined based on how close you are to the next higher or lower grade.

Grading Scale

Percentage	Letter Grade
A	High Pass on 1 and Pass on 2: Major written assessments High Pass on 1; Pass on two: Peer-critique Pass: Discussion Leader Complete 2 rough drafts No more than 1 incomplete discussion prep No more 1 incomplete journal check No more than 4 absences
B	Pass on 3: Major written assessments Pass on 3: Peer-critique Pass: Discussion Leader Complete 2 rough drafts No more than 2 incomplete discussion preps No more 2 incomplete journal checks No more than 5 absences
C	Pass on 2: Major written assessments Pass on 2: Peer-critique Pass: Discussion Leader Complete 1 rough draft No more than 3 incomplete discussion preps No more 3 incomplete journal checks No more than 6 absences
D	Pass on 1: Major written assessments Complete 1 rough draft No more than 4 incomplete discussion preps No more 4 incomplete journal checks No more than 7 absences
F	Complete less than required to earn a D.

Attendance/Participation:

Attendance and participation are expected. Students can have four absences with no effect to their grade.

Course Materials Purchased by the Students:

Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (Penguin Books, 2019)