{"id":190,"date":"2018-01-09T19:44:45","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T19:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/karen-cox\/?page_id=190"},"modified":"2018-03-19T19:56:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T19:56:00","slug":"course-schedule","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/karen-cox\/courses\/hist-4600-writing-womens-biography\/course-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Course Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"

COURSE SCHEDULE<\/strong><\/p>\n

(Subject to Change)<\/p>\n

Jan 9 Introduction and Expectations<\/p>\n

Jan 16 Read Varon, Southern Lady, Yankee Spy <\/em>(ALL)
\nReading Reflection #1 due at beginning of class<\/p>\n

Jan 23 Read Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
\n<\/em>Reading Reflection #2 due at beginning of class<\/p>\n

Jan 30 Read Shetterly, Hidden Figures
\n<\/em>Reading Reflection #3 due at beginning of class<\/p>\n

Feb 6\u00a0\u00a0 Library Resource Session with Dr. Cox<\/p>\n

Feb 13 Read the following for discussion:<\/p>\n

Why Biography<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Writing Biography at the Edge of History
\n<\/a>
\nWriting Women’s Lives: One Historian’s Perspective<\/a><\/p>\n

Primary Source Assignment Part 1 is DUE (Guidelines provided)
\nAccess Heritage Quest Online<\/a><\/p>\n

Feb 20 Finding Emily
\nRead: Process Essay: http:\/\/www.processhistory.org\/finding-emily\/<\/a>
\nand Goat Castle – Chapter Three and Notes<\/a>
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

DUE:\u00a0 Turn in short, but annotated, bibliography of secondary sources. Divide by category (Journal articles, books, dissertations\/theses).<\/p>\n

Feb 27 Discussion of Biography, A Very Brief Introduction<\/em>, Chapters 1-4<\/p>\n

March 6: Spring Break<\/p>\n

Mar 13 Biographical sketch using primary sources from previous week, plus secondary sources. (Guidelines provided).\u00a0 In-class presentations.\u00a0 You will be asked to read aloud the first page of your sketch.<\/p>\n

Mar 20 Discussion of Biography, A Very Brief Introduction<\/em>, Chapters 5-8<\/p>\n

Mar 27\u00a0 NO CLASS
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

April 3\u00a0 Discussion of Writing a Woman\u2019s Life <\/em><\/p>\n

Email the DRAFT (6 pages of the total of 12-15 will suffice) of your paper to Dr. Cox by Friday, April 6th. It should include a bibliography of primary & secondary sources on the woman you plan to write about (Guidelines provided)<\/p>\n

April 10 No Class<\/p>\n

April 17 Individual meetings with Dr. Cox to discuss the draft of your paper.<\/p>\n

.April 24 No class. Work on your paper. I will hold office hours should you wish to discuss your papers further.\u00a0 2-4:30 pm<\/p>\n

May 1st:\u00a0 Last Day of Class. Turn in final paper.\u00a0 Read a section of your paper that you are particularly proud to share.\u00a0 It’s my birthday.<\/p>\n

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COURSE SCHEDULE (Subject to Change) Jan 9 Introduction and Expectations Jan 16 Read Varon, Southern Lady, Yankee Spy (ALL) Reading Reflection #1 due at beginning of class Jan 23 Read Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Reading Reflection #2 due at beginning of class Jan 30 Read Shetterly, Hidden Figures Reading Reflection #3 due […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":432,"featured_media":0,"parent":179,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-190","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3ip3R-34","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/karen-cox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/karen-cox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/karen-cox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/karen-cox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/432"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/karen-cox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/karen-cox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/karen-cox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/190\/revisions\/250"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/karen-cox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/karen-cox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}