Instructor:	Randolph Hollingsworth	Email:	dolph@pop.uky.edu
Office Location:	Lexington Community College 221 Moloney Building Lexington KY 40506-0235	Telephone:	voice 606-257-3635 FAX 606-257-9578
Office Hours:	TR 11-12 noon MWF 10-11 am	Course Credit:	3 credit hours
Area Coordinator:	Eileen Abel, 101 AT Building, 257-2600 x228, eabel0@pop.uky.edu
Course Information: Table of Contents	Required Texts/Supplies Course Description/Objectives Course Requirements/Grading Attendance/Withdrawals/Incompletes Cheating/Plagiarism Policy On Late Work Course Outline 5 Guiding Themes for WS Guidelines for Discussion Questions?

Required Published Texts:
Diverse Voices Of Women,, by Ballentine & Inclan (Mayfield, 1995)

Other supplies:

• An email address. If you do not have an email address you can register online for a POP email account. The account does not cost anything, however it takes approximately two weeks to process your request. It provides access to Eudora email, available at L.C.C. in the Computer Labs in Moloney Building Rooms 145 and 112. You can be tutored to use your POP email online, or you can go to McVey Hall on the U.K. Campus for further training (call 257-2900 for Help Desk or 257-2249 for Short Courses). This form of communication allows us to communicate with each other more quickly and efficiently than by telephone.
• A student's guide to writing, e.g., Elements of Style, by William Strunk, Jr.
• A research guide for Oral History in American Women's History, e.g., the Middle Tenn. State University website

Course Description and Objectives:

• express a basic knowledge of the historical background of women's lives and the role of culture in organizing, containing or furthering women's knowledge, experiences, voices and achievements;
• identify concepts of class, race, age and gender as constructions by societies and interrelated throughout women's lives;
• use analytical skills in reading, listening, observing, writing and speaking about women's issues (like feminism) in order to demonstrate an enhanced understanding of your own views - as well as those of others;
• function as a member of an efficient working group, thus better understanding how our learning and cooperation can prepare us to challenge social institutions and practices that marginalize, subordinate and devalue particular groups of people;
• venture further into cross-cultural and interdisciplinary resources to demonstrate an understanding of and appreciation for both the diversity and commonality of our lives, identities and dreams across time, place and social groupings; and
• show how you have gained the General Education Competencies as listed for all Lexington Community College courses.

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COURSE REQUIREMENTS AND GRADING SCALE

There are no tests in this course, however you are expected to complete 3 projects and to keep a double-entry journal. Your grade will be calculated on a 1000-point scale, where A = 90-100%, B = 80-89%, C = 70-79%, D = 60-69%, E = 59-0%. To succeed you will fulfill these requirements:

• Oral History Project: 300 points
  Project Proposal due Oct. 1st; tapes and portfolio due Dec. 16th
• Team Book Discussion Program: 200 points
  Program proposal due Oct. 26th; Discussion Program anytime before December 19th
• Diverse Voices Colloquium: 200 points
• Double-Entry Journal: 300 points

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POLICY ON ATTENDANCE, WITHDRAWALS, AND INCOMPLETES

CHEATING/PLAGIARISM

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POLICY ON LATE WORK

COURSE OUTLINE

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ASSUMPTIONS AND GUIDELINES FOR DISCUSSIONS

1. We are all teachers and learners since we all have multiple identities (including but not limited to those based on our race, gender, age, class, sexual orientation, ethnicity, abilities, region, appearances, talents).

2. Societies construct meanings of gender, race, place, time, etc.

3. Oppression (i.e., racism, sexism, classism, heterosexism) exists.

4. One of the mechanisms of oppression is that we are all systematically taught misinformation about our own groups and about members of both dominant and subordinate groups.

5. We will not blame ourselves or others for the misinformation we have learned in the past, but accept responsibility for not repeating misinformation after we have learned otherwise.

6. We will not blame victims for their oppression.

7. People (both the groups we study and the members of our class) always do the best they can.

8. We will actively pursue information about our own groups and those of others.

9. We will share information about our groups with other members of the class and never demean, devalue, or in any way "put down" people for their experience.

10. We will actively combat the myths and stereotypes about our own groups and other groups so that we can break down the walls [that] prohibit group cooperation and group gain.

11. If members of the class wish to make comments that they do not want repeated outside the classroom, they can preface their remarks with a request and the class will agree not to repeat the remarks. This will help to create a safe atmosphere for open discussion.

The last 9 of these rules were developed by Lyn Weber Cannon, Director of the Center for Research on Women at Memphis State Univ. and published in Report to the Profession: Liberal Learning & the Women's Studies Major, by the National Women's Studies Assoc. in conjunction with the Assoc. of American Colleges in 1991. If we need to amend these rules, we can do so whenever necessary.

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