Dynamic Course Schedules
| Week/Dates | Comp 2 Topics & Materials | EMW Topics & Materials | Weekly Assignment |
| Week 1 M, March 4 | Linked Courses Combined Today. Read: Letter from Home by Kiese Laymon | Linked Courses Combined Today. Introductions! | Sign up: CUNY Academic Commons course site |
| Week 2 M, March 9 W, March 11 | MONDAY: Introductions. Generative Writing: How Does Power Show Up? Continued discussion of Kiese Laymon’s “Letter from Home.” Unpacking Rhetoric + Writing with integrity, honesty, and tenderness. Found Poem Activity. WEDNESDAY: Read and discuss selected poems by Morgan Parker. What Do We Owe Writing? Intro to Voice and Elements of Writing. | Ethnographic Methods at Work? Introductions! Watch: Why Grades Shouldn’t Exist, Alfie Kohn The Politics of Reading Together (or Reading as Work) Read: 1. Ground Provisions by Stefano Harney & Tonika Sealy Thompson 2. EOW outline from The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Read: 1. Unpacking the Shortcomings of “College and Career Readiness” as an Educative Approach in Urban Schools as Preparation for Tomorrow’s Economy Watch & Discuss: The Value of Work | Blog 1 |
| Week 3 M, March 16 W, March 18 | MONDAY: Read and discuss “Speaking in Tongues” by Zadie Smith. Genre analysis + rhetorical situation activity. WEDNESDAY: Genre conventions. Genre as Social Action. Read and Discuss The-Cask-of-Amontillado Edgar Allan Poe. | Foundations Origins of Social Science & Ethnography Ethnography/Research Ethics Understanding Ethnography, Ethnography Made Easy (OER) Read: On Ethnographic Refusal: Indigeneity, ‘Voice’ and Colonial Citizenship by Audra Simpson or Othered by Anthropology by Savannah Martin Ethnographic Ableism by Micha Rahder Sociology’s Race Problem by Robyn Autry Women in the Field by Ruchika Ranwa Being a Mehmann by Mano Mandel [Thinking Like an Ethnographer, Ethnography Made Easy (OER) Research Ethics, Ethnography Made Easy (OER)] | Blog 2 |
| Week 4 M, March 23 W, March 25 | MONDAY Ethics of AI in Writing. Read and Discuss Artificial intelligence is creating a new colonial world order | MIT Technology Review WEDNESDAY Read and discuss “The Work You Do, The Person You Are” Toni Morrison and selected poems from “Alive at the End of the World” by Saeed Jones. AI activity. | Ethnographic Mapping Ethnographic Mapping, Ethnography Made Easy (OER) Activity: Mapping Collective Mapping Project Description Digital Map: tinyurl.com/house4map | Blog 3 |
| Week 5 M, March 30 | MONDAY No Class; Sick | Watch: People’s Park & Discuss it as an Ethnographic Film | Blog 4 |
| No Classes April 1-9 | SPRING BREAK | SPRING BREAK | N/A |
| Week 6 M, April 13 W, April 15 | MONDAY Thesis Statement and Research Question Review. Building & Understanding Argument. Read and Discuss “Horror Story” by Carmen Maria Machado. Begin Experimental Autobiography. WEDNESDAY How to Survive a Plague Documentary | Autoethnography Autoethnography, Ethnography Made Easy (OER) Watch: What is Autoethnography Introduce Autoethnography Activity Review: Examples of autoethnography –EXPERIMENTAL AUTOETHNOGRAPHY PROMPT– | Blog 5 Collective Mapping Project Description Digital Map: tinyurl.com/house4map |
| Week 7 M, April 20 Tues, April 21 Remote* Classes follow Wednesday Schedule W, April 22 | MONDAY How to Survive a Plague Documentary WEDNESDAY Work on Research Essay. Select a topic and outline + draft. | Feminist Ethnography and Social Reproduction Feminist Ethnography and Social Reproduction Theory Watch: Social Reproduction Video | Blog 6 |
| Week 8 M, April 27 W, April 29 | MONDAY Symbols and Hidden Meanings in Writing. Library Databases Review. In class Symbol assignment. WEDNESDAY Essay Structure + Scaffolding. MLA + activity. Signal Phrases. Work on Research assignment. | Unions & Collective Bargaining What is a Union? No Shortcuts: Introduction PSC-CUNY Resources: The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) Core Concepts WATCH: Worker Control in Venezuela Guided Notes for Film | Blog 7 |
| Week 9 M, May 4 W, May 6 | MONDAY The Mechanics of a Research Essay. 1:1s. Work on Research essay. WEDNESDAY Journal as genre. Reading excerpts from Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. Work on Research essay. | READ: A Factory Without Bosses & Worker Control in a Capitalist Environment & Imperialist Blockade Observations Conducting Interviews, Ethnography Made Easy (OER) Review Component #2: Interview Activity: Interviews Creating Interview Guides | Blog 8 |
| Week 10 M, May 11 W, May 13 | MONDAY The Role of Critique. Reading and discussing “A Moral Education” by Garth Greenwell. Exploring argument and rebuttal. Work on Experimental Autobiography. 1:1s. WEDNESDAY Continue reading “A Moral Education” by Garth Greenwell. Discussing discomfort in art. Work on Experimental Autobiography. | Debt: The First 5000 Years (Chapter 5) Watch: Graeber Interview on Debt Watch: The Myth of Barter Data What is data? Coding, Ethnography Made Easy (OER) | Blog 9 |
| Week 11 M, May 18 (Field Trip with COMP & EMW!) W, May 20 | MONDAY (FIELD TRIP) Read and discuss “Illness as Metaphor” by Susan Sontag. Investigating the “Blurring” Effect of Language. Work on Research essay. WEDNESDAY In class essay activity. Work on Research essay. | Monday- Field Trip to Brooklyn! Wednesday: Field Notes Field Notes Template Observations, Ethnography Made Easy (OER) Observation and Mapping Collecting and Taking Notes, Ethnography Made Easy (OER) | Blog 10 |
| No Classes M, May 25 W, May 27 | N/A | ||
| Week 12 M, June 1 W, June 3 | MONDAY Work on one of three writing assignments. 1:1s. WEDNESDAY Work on one of three writing assignments. | Decolonize Ethnography? READ: https://www.culanth.org/fieldsights/decolonizing-ethnography-a-reimagined-framework-for-conducting-radical-ethnography Writing Ethnography, Ethnography Made Easy (OER) Analyzing Ethnographic Data, Ethnography Made Easy (OER) | Final Blog |
| Week 13 COMP & EMW COMBINED (ROOM 502) Last Class! M, June 8 | MONDAY (COMP & EMW COMBINED (ROOM 502)) Zine making + goodbyes. Experimental Autobiography Presentation. Turn in printed versions of both writing assignments (Research and Autobiography). | COMP & EMW COMBINED (ROOM 502) End of Class Reflections & Activity |
