GAS Works course

Day 2 of GAS Works: 
"The Territory of Excellence is Very Small"

Kicking Off GAS Works: Day 1

I. Begin w/ music ("Sister Suffragette," from Mary Poppins...!)

II. Then form a wagon wheel (to "roll" after every third question):
1) if you were an imaginary (literary, filmic, gaming) character, who would you be? (humanities)

2) if you were a life form other than human, what might it be? (science)

3) if you were a (non-organic) structure, what might that be? (social science)
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4) what is your name and preferred pronoun?
(tell each other all the pronouns you’ve ever heard of )

Below find a list of the final set of webpapers emerging from GAS Works, an interdisciplinary course about gender and sexuality offered at Bryn Mawr College in Fall 2009. Students are exploring here the wide range of questions that have arisen for them over the course of the semester, and the spectrum of methodologies and forms where some answers might be found.

Take a look around, and feel warmly welcome to respond in the comment area available at the end of each paper. What strikes, intrigues, puzzles you...what, among your reactions, might be of interest or use to the writer, or others in the class, or others who--exploring the internet--might be in search of a thoughtful conversation about gender, sexuality and education.

Below find a list of webpapers emerging from GAS Works, an interdisciplinary course about gender and sexuality offered at Bryn Mawr College in Fall 2009. As we approach the semester's end, students have been asked to propose a final project. What questions have been raised for them by this course, and how might they go about answering them? What form might be most appropriate for conducting this exploration?

Take a look around, and feel warmly welcome to respond in the comment area available at the end of each paper. What strikes, intrigues, puzzles you...what, among your reactions, might be of interest or use to the writer, or others in the class, or others who--exploring the internet--might be in search of a thoughtful conversation about gender, sexuality and education.

Below find a list of webpapers emerging from GAS Works, an interdisciplinary course about gender and sexuality offered at Bryn Mawr College in Fall 2009. Two months into the semester, students have been asked to write about the intersecting categories of disability, sex and gender, articulating both what they have learned and what questions they have, in the places where these identity categories "rub up" against one another.

Take a look around, and feel warmly welcome to respond in the comment area available at the end of each paper. What strikes, intrigues, puzzles you...what, among your reactions, might be of interest or use to the writer, or others in the class, or others who--exploring the internet--might be in search of a thoughtful conversation about gender, sexuality and education.

Below find a list of webpapers emerging from GAS Works, an interdisciplinary course about gender and sexuality offered at Bryn Mawr College in Fall 2009. One month into the semester, students have been asked to propose a design for the second half of the course syllabus, articulating the philosophy and the praxis they'd like to see us explore together.

Take a look around, and feel warmly welcome to respond in the comment area available at the end of each paper. What strikes, intrigues, puzzles you...what, among your reactions, might be of interest or use to the writer, or others in the class, or others who--exploring the internet--might be in search of a thoughtful conversation about gender, sexuality and education.

Below find a list of webpapers emerging from GAS Works, an interdisciplinary course about gender and sexuality offered at Bryn Mawr College in Fall 2009. During the first week of classes, students read Jacques Derrida's Women in the Beehive and Peggy McIntosh's Interactive Phases of Curricular Revision. They have now been asked to to tell their generation’s/their own version of McIntosh’s story. What kind of people are they? What kind of education have they had, and do they want to have? What has been the relation between their lives, their gender, and their education? What do they want that relationship to be? What has the role of activism in (their) education been? What might/should it be?

Take a look around, and feel warmly welcome to respond in the comment area available at the end of each paper. What strikes, intrigues, puzzles you...what, among your reactions, might be of interest or use to the writer, or others in the class, or others who--exploring the internet--might be in search of a thoughtful conversation about gender, sexuality and education.