GROWING UP IN THE 21st CENTURY
SYLLABUSWINTER QUARTER, 2001
Rough draft of syllabus
Week One, January 8-12
Tuesday: Organize Research Groups
Watch "Dating Etiquette" and "Eyes on the Prize"
Writing workshop on paragraphing and forecasting
Thursday: Seminar on Richard Rothstein, The Way We Were?
Thursday evening, January 11 -- Program potluck at Stephanie's houseWeek Two, January 15-19
Tuesday: Seminar on Modell. Into One's Own, pp. 1-212, and Intimate Matters, pp. 239-74
Thursday: Research Workshops; Seminar on Field Research
Week Three, January 22-26
Tuesday: Seminar on Into One's Own, pp. 213-334, Intimate Matters, pp. 275-300 and The Way We Never Were, chapter 2
Thursday: Research Workshops; Seminar on Field Research
Week Four, January 29-Febrary 2
Tuesday: Seminar on Intimate Matters, pp. 301-77, The Way We Never Were, chapters 7 and 8, and At The Threshold: The Developing Adolescent, chapters 6, 7, and 8 (on reserve)
Thursday: Research Workshops; Seminar on Field Research
Week Five, February 5-9
Tuesday: Seminar on Wyn and White, Rethinking Youth, pp. 1-93, Mike Brake, Comparative Youth Culture, pp. 1-29, and David Elkind, All Grown Up and No Place to Go, pp. 1-29 (handout)
Thursday: Research Workshops; Seminar on Field Research.
Prospectus, notes, and tentative outline (in full sentences, not fragments) due for research papers. Students who do not turn these in today will lose one credit.Week Six, February 12-16
Tuesday: Seminar on Comparative Youth Culture, pp. 83-143, 163-183
Thursday: Research Workshops; Seminar on Field Research.
Friday. Feb 16: Paper due on seminar readings: Topic to be announced. Late papers will result in loss of one credit. Missing papers will result in loss of 3 credits.
Week Seven, February 19-23
No classes this week. Work on research project
Week Eight, February 26-March 2
Tuesday: Seminar on Rethinking Youth, pp. 94-151, Comparative Youth Culture, pp. 184-98, and "Beavis and Butt-Head: No Future for Post-Modern Youth" (handout).
Thursday: Research Workshops; Seminar on Field Research
Week Nine, March 5-9
Tuesday: Seminar on "No More Secrets -- Kinderculture, Information Saturation, and the Post-Modern Childhood" (handout) and Kathleen McDonnell, Kid Culture
Wednesday, March 7: Paper due on seminar readings. Topic TBA. Late papers will result in loss of one credit. Missing papers will result in loss of 3 credits.
Thursday: Research Workshops; Seminar on Field Research
Week Ten, March 12-16
Tuesday, March 13: Down day to finish final version of research project, due Wednesday, March 14 at 4 pm in my office mail box. Late papers will result in loss of 1 credit and the filing of an incomplete. Failure to complete the paper by the deadline specified in the incomplete will result in the loss of 2 more credits, for a total deficit of 3 credits.
Thursday: Seminar on "Producing Girls" (handout), other articles about and by youth activists, TBA
Week Eleven, March 19-23.
Evaluations
March 26-April 1
SPRING BREAK