SSP 100: Sexualities/Textualities
Professor Mason Stokes
Department of English

Daily Schedule

September
 October
 November
 December

 

SEPTEMBER

WEEK ONE

Tuesday 7: Introduction

Wednesday, September 8, 5:30-6:30: Reception at President's House

Thursday 9: Genesis, books 2 and 3 (King James Version and Revised Standard Version); One-Page Essay Due

WEEK TWO

Tuesday 14: Michel Foucault, "We 'Other Victorians,'" "The Incitement to Discourse"; Discuss Writing Project #1

Wednesday, September 15, 5:30-6:30: Knowing Your Academic Resources

Thursday 16: John Harvey Kellogg, M.D., selections from Plain Facts for Old and Young (1888); Henry Guernsey, M.D., selections from Plain Talks on Avoided Subjects (1882)

WEEK THREE

Tuesday 21: WP #1 Draft due; in-class paragraphing exercise

Wednesday, September 22, 5:30-6:30: Sexual Misconduct

Thursday 23: Writing workshop

WEEK FOUR

Tuesday 28: WP #1 Revision due; Joseph Collins, M.D., selections from The Doctor Looks at Love and Life (1926); Marie Stopes, selections from Married Love: A New Contribution to the Solution of Sex Difficulties (1932); Discuss Writing Project #2

Thursday 30: Sigmund Freud, selections from "Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality" (1905); Michel Foucault, "Scientia Sexualis"; See the Encyclopedia Britannica on Freud's theory of Sexuality and Development; One-Page Essay Due

OCTOBER

WEEK FIVE

Tuesday 5: Havelock Ellis, selections from Psychology of Sex (1920)

Wednesday, October 6, 5:30-6:30: Alcohol & Drug Abuse

Thursday 7: WP #2 Draft due; Eustace Chesser, M.D., selections from Love without Fear: How to Achieve Sex Happiness in Marriage (1947)

WEEK SIX

Tuesday 12: Regina Markell Morantz, "The Scientist as Sex Crusader: Alfred C. Kinsey and American Culture"; Joseph Epstein, "The Secret Life of Alfred Kinsey"; One-Page Essay Due

Wednesday, October 13, 5:30-6:30: Faculty Evaluation Process

Thursday 14: David Reuben, M.D., selections from Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex, but Were Afraid to Ask (1969); Alex Comfort, M.D., selections from The Joy of Sex (1972)

WEEK SEVEN

Tuesday 19: WP #2 Revision due; Janice Radway, selections from Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature; Discuss Writing Project #3

Wednesday, October 20, 5:30-6:30: Achieving Academic Success at Skidmore

Thursday 21: Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, The Flame and the Flower (through chapter 4)

WEEK EIGHT

Tuesday 26: In-class peer review of the draft for Writing Project #3 (Bring 3 copies of your draft.)

Wednesday, October 27, 5:30-6:30: Civic Engagement and Campus Community

Thursday 28: Flame continued (through chapter 9)

NOVEMBER

WEEK NINE

Tuesday 2: WP #3 Due; Discuss Writing Project #4; Flame concluded; One-Page Essay Due

Wednesday, November 3, 5:30-7:30: Dinner at Professor Stokes' House, 5 MacArthur Drive

Thursday 4: Final Flame discussion; return to Radway

WEEK TEN

Tuesday 9: In-class peer review of the draft for Writing Project #4 (Bring 3 copies of your draft.)

Wednesday, November 10, 5:30-6:30: Diversity and Inclusion

Thursday 11: Ruth Westheimer, Sex for Dummies (1995)

WEEK ELEVEN

Tuesday 16: WP #4 due; Sex Law

Thursday 18: Groups work on projects and present questions to the class

WEEK TWELVE

Tuesday 23: Research in the library; meet in Library 128.

THANKSGIVING

WEEK THIRTEEN

Tuesday 30: Groups work on presentations

DECEMBER

Thursday 2: Presentations

WEEK FOURTEEN

Tuesday 7: Presentations

Thursday 9: Last Day of Class

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