Part I. Learning Gender (1-2 paragraphs)
What were the gendered messages in your home? For example, girls could…, boy could…girls couldn’t
What roles and behaviors were expected of you in your home because of your gender? Were there
consequences for not following gendered expectations?
What did you see as models of women’s roles/work/place? What did you see as models of men’s
roles/work/place?
What were the lessons of your early years in school? What models of maleness and femaleness did you
see?
What were the lessons of your teenage years? How did you see yourself in relation to maleness and
femaleness? What did you notice around you?
Part II. Rules for Intimacy (1-2 paragraphs)
What is one message you were taught about relationships between girls and boys? How were you taught
this lesson?
What is one lesson you were taught about how males were supposed to relate to each other? How were you
taught this lesson?
What is one lesson you were taught about how females were supposed to relate to each other? How were
you taught this lesson?
Part III. Reflection (1-2 paragraphs)
What happens to those of us who do not fit in the box of gender rules for
relationships?
What happens to the part of you that doesn’t fit in the box?
Why would someone step out of the box of gender rules?
What would be helpful to encourage more people in getting free of the gender rules?
Part IV. Differences in Gender Experiences (1-2 paragraphs)
Describe a time when you noticed yourself of someone else being treated differently based on gender.
What happened? How did you feel? What did you do? What assumptions about males and females were
being expressed in this experience?
In what ways are socialization experiences of females and males the same, and in what ways are they
different.
Part V. Final Thoughts and Reflection (1-2 paragraphs)
What did you learn from this session today?
Category: Social Science
Just like the first Concept Engagement, you will use one of the concepts from our course readings — on the syllabus from Feb. 8 up to and including March 15 — to analyze a media example of your choice (TV show, music video, movie, Youtube series/figure, music, news story, social media phenomenon, etc.). You will engage at least one key concept from one of our readings, explore what that concept means (in relation to the reading from which it comes) and use that concept to briefly analyze your chosen media example. Students will be expected to use well-chosen quotations from the scholarly text, to properly cite and integrate the quotation into their discussion/analysis.
Students can choose to submit written work (500-750 words), create a short video, integrating slides and/or other media (minimum 3 minutes, maximum 5 minutes), or propose another creative media form (ie. basic website, basic digital game, something else?).
Concept Engagement #2 will take up course materials covered from Feb. 8 up to and including March 15.
Real Estate Networking Plan
You are a California Real Estate agent who owns a real estate business.
STEP 1: Identify the Real Estate industry and area you want to get into.
Research the Real Estate industry and see who are the major players (companies, agencies, nonprofits, media outlets, etc.). What is the current state of this industry?
Note the history, client work, and vision statement for the particular industry you are looking for. Why do you want to work here? What campaigns and social media activities are professionals in this industry doing that is working for them?
Evaluate their social media accounts. Conduct a mini social media audit to see what they are doing well, and what they could improve on. Follow their social media accounts on all platforms.
Research the current jobs outlined. What are some qualifications employers are looking for?
STEP 2: Research professionals.
Research people you would like to connect with. Look to see if there are bios on the main website of the company, agency, or organization you are looking at. How did these professionals get to where they are today?
Evaluate how they present themselves on LinkedIn and Twitter. Are they consistent? What are they sharing?
Are there any connections, similarities, or experiences you share with these professionals?
Outline the findings you have collected.
STEP 3: publish initial outreach message and contact.
Determine which platform would be best for reaching out to these professionals.
Evaluate your own digital presence. Are you consistent and showing your true and authentic personal brand? How would others perceive your digital footprint? Revise and update if necessary to present the best and true first impression online.
publish an initial note (formatted for the platform) to connect with others.Discuss why you are connecting with them.
Keep it short and to the point.
Don’t go for the hard sell—talk about why you want to learn more about their journey and experience. Ask how they got to where they are today.
Edit, check for grammar and spelling and edit again.
STEP 4: Reach out. (optional)
Take the initial step to reach out to the professional.
Determine what your objective is (connection, possible job shadow opportunity, meet for coffee, etc.).
Evaluate the experience. What did you learn from this activity? What would you do differently? What are some best practices you learned in the process?
Discuss next steps. What are some next steps you will be taking based on the experience you had here?
The Essay Question: How do power relations affect individual and communal abilities to parent, give care, or make choices related to family?
Answer the following question in at least 800 words. Your essay should incorporate each of the 4 readings attached and the film “America’s War on Abortion”. Make sure to include an introductory paragraph that is specific in describing how power relations can affect the ability to parent, give care, or make choices related to the family. And then use the sources to create body paragraphs to provide evidence and examples of your argument.
For written assignments, please use double-spacing, 12-point font, and insert page numbers. When citing materials, you may use any academic citation style (e.g. APA, MLA, ASA), as long as you use it consistently. You may use footnotes, endnotes, or a bibliography, as you prefer. Uploads may be in PDF
Instructions
30% of course grade
Engage Karenga chapters 1.3; 11.10, and other relevant unit resources (TBA).
Learning outcome: Asses key Africana Studies concerns, goals, concepts and founding principles.
Identify an Africana related not-for-profit organization or initiative which has a clearly stated mission related to justice, diversity or social equity, or a and which has a need for volunteers. Volunteer at least 3 hours of “community service” to said organization. For example, if Central State University is selected, focus on CSU’s mission statement and compelling priorities as an HBCU. You may choose to volunteer with a project or initiative which explicitly connects CSU to an external community (i.e., the city of Dayton, or the CSU Alumni chapter in your city). Volunteer service might include approved social media promotion of the organization itself or an event/program sponsored by the organization.
You may volunteer at an organization of which you a member, or even where you work, if appropriate. After the volunteer engagement, write a summary paper focused on insights gained from the service learning experience, relative to Africana Studies “relevance” and “ethics of sharing” and its founding goal to “connect campus to community.”
Upload/attach your service learning report paper, which should have the following structural features: unique title, introduction, body, conclusion and reference/works cited page.
Summary paper might answer the following questions: What was your initial impression of this service-learning assignment; which organizations did you consider before making a final decision; where is the organization located and what is its stated mission; while volunteering, did you gain a better view the organization’s mission; what service did you provide, why, what amount of time, and how useful do your think it was; what information or insights about the organization did you gain; in your assessment, how does the organization’s mission relate, if at all, to such Africana Studies imperative and concerns about “relevance,” “social concerns,” “ethic of sharing,” etc.as you understand them. What, if any, value did volunteer in this manner held for you?
Do attach relevant documentation such as communications with the service site and/or work product created as part of your service.
In-class Honors Credit (90 points or higher, required and registration with CSU Honors College)
Focus your Service-Learning Midterm assignment project report on an organization that is within your future career, adding a detailed analysis of ways the organization’s professional goals address, or could address, a larger mission such as “community development,” “human advancement” or “societal injustices/inequity”?
Focus your Final Analysis Assignment on conducting research which extends your Service-Learning midterm report by further exploring, detailing, and assessing how your chosen career field, or your personal participation in same, can be shaped by Africana Studies imperatives.
At least 90 points on both midterm report and final paper, required.
I volunteere at my job during my days off. I work at DYRS in Washington DC, which is a juvenile detention center. I volunteered with enrichment programs (you could make uo any) most of the population there is 99% African American.
What I learned is that our African American youth really need guidance (if you could help me word that better please.) They need preventive programs that would step in before our youth see that crime is the answer. (if you could help me word that better) and cite some youth programs you feel would help solve the crime rate in Washington DC.
I volunteered 1 hr a day for 4 days at my job, nonpaid. I worked on the male and female unit.
Feel free to add what else you feel is needed and ask ne any questions
Analyze at least two laws or two court decisions that have implications for the agency’s personnel management (title this section “Laws Affecting the Agency”).
Evaluate the agency’s approach to diversity issues, highlighting the strengths and weaknesses (title this section “Personnel Recruitment and Hiring Practices”).
Evaluate the agency’s approach to ethics and diversity training programs provided for new and existing employees, highlighting the strengths and weaknesses (title this section “Ethics and Diversity Training”).
Recommend at least two actions the agency could take to improve in the areas of recruiting and training a diversified workforce (title this section “Recommendations for Recruiting and Training a Diversified Workforce”).
Appropriately incorporate at least four quality sources
Perspectives on Urbanization and the Growth of Cities
Summaries it to be in simple and few pages and make it as PowerPoint slides (4-5 slides). Take the important things only.