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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here’s an excerpt from a class note from one of these classes. What a claustrophobic, ideological, closed little mind this brief introduction projects to me! Students should print highlight and annotate, students should read a discredited author who based his theories about white men on interviews with Beo-Nazis and also was accused of accused of harassment and assault by several graduate students because I think he’s great…. Blah blah blah I wouldn’t let my kid take this if I had any choice; if I had to have them take I’d make sure they were fully informed and critically minded.

“From my past experience, students typically do better on their exams if they print these documents and highlight them and write notes on them!
1. Kimmel, Michael. (2013). Angry white men: American masculinity at the end of an era. New York: Nations Books.
Note: In the spirit of full transparency, there has been some controversy associated with this scholar who is now retired. You can review a brief summary of his credentials and the issue in question at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Kimmel. Because Kimmel has arguably:
a. done more to advance the subfield of men and masculinity than anyone else,
b. published more material on men and masculinities themes than anyone else,
c. and wrote an important book that deals with timely topics that speak to our
polarized society, masculinity themes,
d. and wrote another book about gendered college life
I felt it reasonable to incorporate this book, and a few chapters from another book, into the class readings. I recognize that some students would have chosen to ignore his work because of the accusations against him. However, given my intimate knowledge of the history of the field, I believe students will benefit from reading his work and develop a fuller grasp of this area of study by being exposed to Kimmel’s work.”[/quote]

What classes are you referring to? GDS seminar has no homework/note taking and definitely no tests. It's one time a week max and gets cancelled if they have an assembly, etc.  [/quote]

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