Course Schedule
This schedule is subject to change and does not list tall of the readings and shorter assignments. All readings are available in BrightSpace or linked below.
Date | In-class Learning/Activity | Homework/Assessment |
Week 0 | ||
Th 8/29 | Collaborative icebreaker & in-class writing. Introduction to the course and our website. | Set up your site and create a Blog Post 0 (BP0). |
Week 1: Defining Discourse Communities | ||
T 9/3 | Watch Lyiscott’s “3 Ways to Speak English.” Introduce James Paul Gee’s “Literacy, Discourse, Linguistics: An Introduction.” | BP0 due. Read pages 3-15 of Gee’s “Literacy, Discourse, Linguistics: An Introduction.” |
Th 9/5 | CLASS CANCELED DUE TO ILLNESS | Ensure you’ve emailed Andrea your WordPress site. |
Week 2 | ||
T 9/10 | Discuss Gee. In-class writing towards BP1. | Work on BP1. Read Johns’ “Discourse Communities & Communities of Practice.” |
Th 9/12 | Johns’ “Discourse Communities & Communities of Practice.” Assign Project 1: Discourse Community Analysis | Read Young’s “Should Writers Use They Own English.” |
Week 3 | ||
T 9/17 | Discourse Community Jeopardy. Discuss Young’s “Should Writers Use They Own English.” | BP1 due. |
Th 9/19 | Working with artifacts/genres. In-class writing towards BP2. | Work on BP2. Work on Project 1. |
Week 4 | ||
T 9/24 | Writing workshop towards Project 1. | BP2 due. |
Th 9/26 | Writing workshop towards Project 1. | Work on Project 1. |
Week 5: Foundations of Collaboration | ||
T 10/1 | Introduce Fitzgerald & Ianetta. In-class writing toward BP3. | Read Bruffee. Finish Project 1. |
Th 10/3 | NO CLASSES SCHEDULED 10/2-10/4 | |
Week 6 | ||
T 10/8 | Project 1 Due: Discourse Community Analysis. Introduce Bruffee and develop our theories of collaborative learning. | Reread Bruffee. |
Th 10/10 | Continue discussion of Collaborative Learning & Writing. In-class writing towards BP3. ASSIGN READING GROUPS. | Work on BP3. Read according to your group: Brandt, Marantz, and Morrison. |
Week 7 | ||
T 10/15 | CLASSES FOLLOW A MONDAY SCHEDULE | BP3 DUE. |
Th 10/17 | CLASS CANCELLED: Andrea will be at a conference. | Reading group work! |
Week 8 | ||
T 10/22 | Groups to present on Brandt, Marantz, and Morrison. In-class writing reflecting on this collaboration. | Read chapters 2 & 5 from Team Writing. |
Th 10/24 | Assign Project 2: Collaborative Histories. | READ instructions for the Collaborative History Project and come to class with any questions you have. Look at McNamee & Miley, Efthymiou & Zea, and this example of the Collaborative History Project from last semester. |
Week 9 | ||
T 10/29 | Decide together what could work for your group. | Email me your in-class writing to andrea.efthymiou@qc.cuny.edu. Read Team Writing (on BrightSpace). |
Th 10/31 | Discuss Team Writing. In-class project management towards the Collaborative History Project. Assign groups, pick a project manager, & create a straw document. | WRITE BP4. |
Week 10 | ||
T 11/5 | In-class writing towards the Collaborative Histories Project. Develop a task schedule for the next week. | BP4 due. |
Th 11/7 | CLASS CANCELLED: Andrea will be at a conference. | Work on Project 2! Read Inayatulla’s “Literate Vixens and Shameless Hijabis.” |
Week 11: Autoethnographic Writing | ||
T 11/12 | Project 2 Due: Collaborative Histories. Introduce autoethnography. Discuss Inayatulla’s “Literate Vixens and Shameless Hijabis.” In-class writing towards BP5. | Read Jackson & McKinney’s “Critical Introduction” to Self+Culture+Writing. Read excerpts of Charmaz’s Grounded Theory Coding |
Th 11/14 | Assign Project 3: Autoethnographic Essay. Discuss Jackson & McKinney’s “Critical Introduction.” Practice coding. | Work on BP5. Read Rainey’s “Her Own Voice: Coming Out in Academia with Bipolar Disorder.” |
Week 12 | ||
T 11/19 | BP 5 due. In-class work towards Coding Exercise. Discuss Rainey’s “Her Own Voice: Coming Out in Academia with Bipolar Disorder.” | Complete Coding Exercise as BP6. |
Th 11/21 | Coding Exercise DUE as BP6. | Coding Exercise DUE. |
Week 13 | ||
T 11/26 | Introduce Spieldenner’s autoethnography. In-class writing towards BP7. | Work on BP7. Read Spieldenner. |
Th 11/28 | NO CLASSES SCHEDULED 11/28-12/1 | |
Week 14 | ||
T 12/3 | Discuss Spieldenner. | BP7 due. |
Th 12/5 | Writing workshop towards Project 3. | |
Week 15 | ||
T 12/10 | Writing workshop towards Project 3. | BP8 due. |
Th 12/12 | Project 3 Due DATE TBD: Autoethnographic Essay | Project 3 & About Page (this will count as BP9): due date TBD. |
FINAL EXAMS SCHEDULED 12/15-12/21 |