Gender and Contemporary Society

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Class Notes

Description: For one of our class meetings during this semester, you will write up your notes in a coherent form and send them to the class instructor and TA to be posted to the class syllabus. Sign up during class on Friday, August 30, choosing the date for which you will be responsible for providing the class notes. (There will sometimes be more than one person assigned to a single date.) Your notes should be the equivalent of 1-2-pages typed. They should effectively and accurately organize the main ideas we have covered in class. You might consider organizing the material for the day under the categories listed on the board at the beginning of every class period.

After you have organized and written up your notes, email them to the professor, Kari McBride, and the  TA, kat sabine, by the next class meeting after your assigned date; for instance, if you have signed up to take notes for a Monday, your notes are due on the following Wednesday; if you signed up for a Friday, your notes are due on the following Monday. (Send yourself a copy of the notes, too, to insure that they arrived on time and complete.) If your notes are inaccurate or incomplete, you may be asked to revise. The TA will post your notes to the class web site, where they will be available to other students in the class for reference and study. If you want help loading your assignment from a word processing disk to your email account, make an appointment well ahead of time with the TA, a grad preceptor, or a consultant from the Women's Studies Writing Center.

Purpose: Learning to take notes effectively is an important skill for success at the university. Writing down main ideas helps you retain information and helps you think about relationships between class themes. In addition, posting your notes to the web will provide a useful resource for other students in the class.

Evaluation: Your notes will be graded on the completeness and accuracy of their coverage of class materials and mechanics (including spelling and usage). Notes that arrive at all late will be penalized substantially. The assignment counts 5% of your grade.