January 18
Introduction to Course
  Film:  Glengarry Glen Ross & discussion

January 25
Read:  Achebe, Things Fall Apart
           Doyle, "Today's Uncertain Male" and "The Antifeminine Element" (from The Male Experience -- handout)

February 1
Read:  Achebe, Things Fall Apart
           R&B, "The House of Fathers and Titans" (p.123-151)
           "Loving the Community and Work" (p. 233-257)
           Doyle, "Success" (from The Male Experience -- handout)

February 8
  Film:     In the Company of Men
  Read:   Doyle, "The Aggressive Element" (from The Male Experience)
              Keen, "It's a WOMAN'S World," (from Fire In the Belly)
              Farrell, "The New Sexism" (from Why Men Are the Way They Are)
              Faludi, "Girls Have All the Power" (from Stiffed)

February 15
Read:      R&B,  "Earthly Love" (313-356)
                          "The Cultivated Heart" (357-382)
               Rubin,  "The Approach-Avoidance Dance" (from Men's Lives)   Other readings TBA

February 22
Read:      Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I
               R&B,  "Fathers' Prayers for Sons and Daughters" (31-62)
                          "Mother and Great Mother" (383-412)
               Pleck, "Prisoners of Manliness" (from Men's Lives)

March 1
Read:      Henry IV, Part I
               Hantover, "The Boy Scouts and the Validation of Masculinity" (from    Men's Lives -- handout)
               TAKE-HOME EXAM DISTRIBUTED

March 8   SPRING BREAK

March 15
Read:      Wolff, This Boy's Life
               Other readings TBA

March 22
Read:      Doyle, "Homosexuality" (from The Male Experience)
               Literature handout TBA
               TAKE HOME EXAM DUE IN CLASS

March 29
Read:      O'Brien, The Things They Carried
               R&B, "War" (63-92)
               J. Glenn Gray, "The Enduring Appeals of Battle" (handout)

April 5
Read:      O'Brien, The Things They Carried
               R&B, "Making A Hole in Denial"(p.193-226)
               Connell, "Masculinity, Violence, and War" (from Men's Lives -- handout)
               Levy, "ARVN as Faggots: Inverted Warfare in Vietnam" (from Men's Lives -- handout)
Film:        Full Metal Jacket (excerpt)

April 12 EASTER BREAK

April 19
Film:        Platoon
             FINAL PAPER DUE

April 26
Read:     R&B, "Loving the World Anyway" (pp. 471-508)
             TAKE-HOME FINAL EXAM DISTRIBUTED

May 3  FINAL EXAM
  JOURNAL PORTFOLIO DUE
 

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