Social Issues Bulletin Board

SI Home, Syllabus, Schedule,
MMET 10101 Spring, 2002
Professor Wayne Hayes Room E-215

Edition #9: April 24, 2002

Thanks to all of you for your concern. I left campus around 1:00 P.M. on Monday for Emergency Room care, observations, and tests. I appear to suffer from a condition called Labyrinthitis (an infection of the middle-ear), which is treatable and usually temporary. More tests are scheduled. I am functioning under medication and anticipate seeing you in class Monday, April 29. My apologies.

The essay on power is still due on Monday, April 29. I have otherwise revised the schedule, which is available on the course web site, by moving the two classes on social change to May 6 and 13, dropping the class on women, sustainable development, and ecology --- which is not required of Social Issues. The essay on social change is still due on May 20. We will review this assignment Monday. We are locked into reservations for computer labs for April 29. Many of you have gotten your term project drafts to me and I will return them on Monday. Our agenda for Monday is:

  1. Business and closure of course
  2. Holdover discussions on Power, Sexism, and Heterosexism
  3. Move to lab: Introduction of Part III of the course, social change, and review essay on social change, which is due on May 20
  4. Return term project proposals with overall remarks
  5. Individual discussions regarding the term project proposals.

Edition #8: April 14, 2002

Thank you to those who have sent me their condolences. Although still in sorrow, I look forward to seeing you tomorrow evening, April 15. We will take up where we left off, with the social issue of Power, Sexism, and Heterosexism. Our schedule has been revised and posted on the course web site. We will move the section on sustainable development and women to May 13.

The date for the essay on power has been pushed back to April 29, although I would happily accept the essay on April 22. I do this to encourage you to concentrate on your term project progress report, rather than ask you for two written assignments due on the same date.

Your progress report and a one-minute oral debrief is due next week, April 22. Our second and final computer lab workshop is scheduled for April 29. We will go over the expectations for the progress report and the essay on power during class on April 15.

Our agenda for April 15 is:

  1. Review of term project progress report, essay on power, and revisions in schedule;
  2. Cyrus readings on Power, Sexism, and Heterosexism: pp. 263-266, #72, 76, 79, 81, 80, 82, 84, and 85
  3. Excerpts from film, The Laramie Project

Edition #7: March 27, 2002

At our April 1, 2002, class, I will distribute all the essays on identity and social context. We will discuss the readings on power and race. Note that we have altered the reading agenda to include: pages 165-168, and numbers 64, 65, 66, 57, 50, 45, 55, 54, 46, and 53. Our agenda is:

  1. Business and announcements
  2. Conclude readings on class and power
  3. Start readings on race and power
  4. Break
  5. End readings on race and power
  6. Review upcoming essay on power, which is due on April 15
  7. Return graded essays on identity in social context
  8. Set up for next class, Power, Sexism, and Heterosexism

Enjoy the remainder of our spring break.

Edition #6: March 18, 2002

The essay on identity in social context is due today. We will meet in E-215 for a short while, then move to nearby computer labs for a term-project workshop. Our agenda for this evening is:

  1. Survey on alcohol, as was previously discussed
  2. Form groups organized by paper topics and move to computer labs;
  3. I will return proposals and essays, explain grading, and make comments;
  4. Review web page, SearchLight, designed to assist students in the use of the Internet for our term projects;
  5. Discussion of essay for Part II of our course, Power,
  6. Perusal of individual proposals and general comments on the writing of the term project.

Edition #5: March 10, 2002

The term project proposals are due tomorrow, March 11. Please do not send via e-mail. Our agenda for our class on Power and Classism, which starts Part II of our course, Power, is:

  1. Oral debriefs from those absent last week
  2. Attendance and announcements
  3. End readings and discussion on gender and social identity
  4. Discuss readings on power and class: see Schedule for assignment
  5. Film segment: Bill Moyers, Trading Democracy, followed by discussion.
  6. Explanation of next week's computer workshop

Edition #4: March 1, 2002

Please note the scheduling changes we discussed in class on February 25:

  1. The date for the term paper proposal has been extended a week, until March 11.
  2. The date for the essay on identity in social context has been extended until March 18.

I have also dropped readings 15, 18, and 19 from the discussion of Identity and Gender.

Please note our agenda for the evening of March 4:

  1. Business and announcements
  2. Brief (under one-minute) overview of term project topics
  3. End readings on race and ethnicity
  4. Break
  5. Readings on gender identity
  6. Preparation for next week's class

Edition #3: February 16, 2002

Please note the agenda for class #3, February 18:

  1. Business, agenda, Bulletin Board, attendance
  2. Left over: end Mills and Levine from February 11
  3. Review readings on Identity and Class, in this order: Introduction, 35, 32, 36, 42, 29, 39, 28
  4. Break
  5. Film: The War Between the Classes, followed by discussion
  6. New business: explanation of essay on identity and on term paper topic; set up for next week's class.

Finally, please note that the brief (one minute) oral statement on your term project topic has been shifted back one week, thus corresponding to the due date for the term project proposal, March 4.

Edition #2: February 10, 2002

Welcome back! If you have not already sent an e-mail to me at whayes@ramapo.edu, or any of my other eddresses, please do so soon. This enables me to build a distribution list. By the way, winter is not over, so please note that the snow emergency number at Ramapo is (201) 236-2902. Last year, our class lost two weeks due to snow emergencies --- and it could happen again. We have many commuters who need to know this.

I have copied the segment from our Schedule corresponding to our class of February 11:

Class #2: February 11. Methods; Identity ^
Cyrus, Preface; Introduction, pp. 1 - 10; Judith Levine: White Like Me, pp. 48 - 51
Film excerpt: Gandhi. Discuss in context of reading.
C. Wright Mills, Introduction to The Sociological Imagination, handout

There will be a surprise twist to the agenda and I will also begin a dialog on how to conduct the term project, beginning with last year's definition of the term project. Remember that the term project proposal is due on March 4.

Edition #1: February 4, 2002

Welcome to Social Issues! I am pleased that you have discovered our class Bulletin Board. Come back often --- I will try to update this page every week. Browse around the site but please pay special attention to these important course resources:

  1. The Syllabus
  2. The Schedule for the semester
  3. The Social Issues Home Page

Agenda, Class #1:

The agenda for our first class includes:

  1. Introduction
  2. Syllabus distributed, projected, and reviewed
  3. Text explained
  4. Schedule of semester projected and explained
  5. Break; individual questioned answered
  6. Roster and index cards filled out
  7. Assignment for February 11

Please note that as part of your first assignment, you will be asked to e-mail me at whayes@ramapo.edu so that I can build a distribution list for the class.

I look forward to meeting you in E-215 on Monday evening, February 4. I hope that you find the course interesting, enjoyable, illuminating, and challenging.

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April 24, 2002