| Week 1 |
| Class: Introduce the course, the syllabus, course resources/supports, Getting to Know Your Campus Essay (Due 12-10-21), and racial puberty; write a list of 10 lived racial experiences; and journal collectively. Homework Assignment: Watch Trevor Noah’s African American Narrative Essay: Complete 3-page Narrative Essay YOU HAVE TWO POSTS/QUESTIONS THIS WEEK. Journal (in class) question 1: What is racial literacy, how does racial literacy affect you, and what does racial literacy have to do with English 101? Post your response in Blackboard Under Discussion Questions. Journal/discussion question 2: when was your racial puberty, what happened, and how do you feel about your racial indoctrination in hindsight? Write a 100-350 word response to the question and submit in Blackboard under Discussion Questions. Due by 8-29-21. |
| Week 2 |
| Class: Collectively discuss racial experiences; review the Trevor Noah comedy special in the context of the narrative essay; discuss topics for the narrative essay; cover MLA format; and provide notes for writing an effective narrative essay. Homework Assignments: Read “Racial Colorblindness: Emergence, Practice, and Implications.” NARRATION ESSAY DUE Friday 9-3-21 by 11:59 am in the Blackboard Collaborate Assignment Dropbox Journal/Discussion Question 3: Discuss a time or moment in your life when you were in a racially intense experience, and explain how you navigated that space, and explain why you chose to navigate that space in the manner you did. Write a 100-350 word response to the question to be submitted in Blackboard under Discussion Questions. Due by 9-5-21. |
| Week 3 |
| Class: Review “Racial Colorblindness: Emergence, Practice, and Implications”; discuss examples of how colorblindness has manifested in students’ lived experiences; interrogate the implications of colorblindness; and introduce the final research paper and possible topics. Homework Assignments: Read part 1 of Harriet Washington’s, Medical Apartheid. Journal/discussion question 4: Critique part 1 of Medical Apartheid through a social justice lens. In other words, choose a theme or point of analysis that appears in part 1, and use that theme or point of analysis to discuss how and why Washington historicizes medical injustice. Write a 100-350 word response to be submitted in Blackboard under Discussion Questions. Due by 9-12-21. |
| Week 4 |
| Class: Review part 1 of Medical Apartheid; discuss the history of healthcare technological advancements/discoveries; opine about the implications of US healthcare practices; think about Medical Apartheid in the context of Covid and possible research paper topics; and provide notes for writing an effective compare and contrast essay. Homework Assignments: Read part 2 of Medical Apartheid. Compare and Contrast PAPER DUE Friday 9-17-21 by 11:59 am in the Blackboard Collaborate Assignment Dropbox. Blog/discussion question 5: Critique part 2 of Medical Apartheid through a criminal or medical justice lens. In other words, choose a theme or point of analysis that appears in part 2, and use that theme or point of analysis to discuss how and why Washington addresses medical racism. Write a 100-350 word response to be submitted in Blackboard under Discussion Questions. Due by 9-19-21. |
| Week 5 |
| Class: Review part 2 of Medical Apartheid; discuss the history of healthcare technological advancements/discoveries; opine about the implications of US healthcare practices; and think about Medical Apartheid in the context of Covid and possible research paper topics. Homework Assignments: Read part 3 Medical Apartheid. Blog/discussion question 6: Critique part 3 of Medical Apartheid. Specifically, you need to explain why Washington operationalized Black trauma as a vehicle to raise awareness about medical racism. Write a 100-350 word response to the question to be submitted in Blackboard under Discussion Questions. Due by 9-26-21. |
| Week 6 |
| Class: Review part 3 of Medical Apartheid; discuss the history of healthcare technological advancements/discoveries; opine about the implications of US healthcare practices; think about Medical Apartheid in the context of Covid and possible research paper topics; and provide notes for writing an effective analysis essay. Homework Assignments: Read Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz’s, “Building Racial Literacy in First-Year Composition.” YOU HAVE TWO POSTS/QUESTIONS THIS WEEK. Blog/Discussion Question 7: What is racial literacy, how does racial literacy affect you, and what does racial literacy have to do with English 101? Blog/Discussion Question 8: How has your understanding of Racial literacy, both abstractly and personally, changed since the beginning of the semester? Write a 100-350 word response to the question to be submitted in Blackboard under Discussion Questions. Due by 10-3-21. Analysis PAPER DUE Friday 10-1-21 by 11:59 am in the Blackboard Collaborate Assignment Dropbox |
| Week 7 |
| Class: Introduce the Racial Literacy Development Model; review “Building Racial Literacy in First-Year Composition”; and discuss its implications for ENG 101 and beyond; and provide notes for producing effective argument essays. Homework assignments: Read Rohan Khazanchi et. al., “Racism, Not Race, Drives Inequity Across the COVID-19 Continuum.” Class project: Mapping Inequity — Students will use DCC’s digital database to find maps and highlight geographical spaces of healthcare inequities. Journal/Discussion Question 9: How does, Healthcare, race, mapping, and Covid intersect? Write a 100-350 word response to the question to be submitted in Blackboard under Discussion Questions. Due by 10-10-21. Link for week 11 meetings: |
| Week 8 |
| Class: Unpack “Racism, Not Race, Drives Inequity Across the Covid-19 Continuum”; make structural connections to racialized Covid healthcare disparities’ and provide notes for writing an effective research paper. Homework assignment: Read America’s Face Mask Usage By Demographic and Why are Blacks Dying at Higher Rates of Covid? Argument PAPER DUE Friday 10-15-21 by 11:59 am in the Blackboard Collaborate Assignment Dropbox Blog/Discussion Question 10: write your introduction to your research paper. In other words, frame your research topic and include an effective thesis statement or research question. Post your introduction in Blackboard under Discussion Questions. Due by 10-17-21. Link for week 11 meetings: |
| Week 9 |
| Class: Collectively interrogate the Covid readings; draw the historical and geographical maps of healthcare inequity; and provide a sample outline for a research paper. Homework Assignment: Read Brynn Holland’s “The ‘Father of Modern Gynecology’ Performed Shocking Experiments on Enslaved Women.” YOU HAVE TWO POSTS/QUESTIONS THIS WEEK. Journal/Discussion Question 11: write a complete outline for your 6-8 page research paper. Post your outline in Blackboard under Discussion Questions. Blog/Discussion Question 12: write a 2-page historicization of your research topic that effectively introduces and frames your topic. Post your response in Blackboard under Discussion Questions. Due by 10-24-21. Link for week 11 meetings: |
| Week 10 |
| Class: Unpack Bryan Holland’s work; collectively discuss and review research questions that address the following question: how can racialized healthcare inequities be addressed during the Covid crisis and beyond? Reading Assignment: Read Carol Shields, “Mrs. Turner Cutting the Grass.” Journal/Discussion Question 13: Write 100-350 words about what whiteness means to you both prior to and now during the course. Due by 10-31-21. Link for week 11 meetings: |
| Week 11 |
| Class: Host 1 on 1 meetings to discuss student research topics and support/deepen research. YOU HAVE TWO POSTS/QUESTIONS THIS WEEK. Journal/Discussion Question 14: discuss how you will use your database article in your research paper. In other words, explain how the work will deepen your research and help you produce both a substantive and academic paper. Post your response in Blackboard under Discussion Questions. Journal/Discussion Question 15: What is racial literacy, how does racial literacy affect you, and what does racial literacy have to do with English 101? Post your 100-500 word response in Blackboard under Discussion Questions. Due by 11-7-21. |
| Week 12 |
| Class: Unpack Carol Shields’s work; discuss how whiteness has manifested as the invisible norm in students’ lived experiences; and interrogate the implications of decentering whiteness. RESEARCH PAPER DUE Friday 11-12-21 by 11:59 pm in the Blackboard Collaborate Assignment Dropbox |
| Week 13 |
| Class: 5-minute oral presentation, which includes digital visuals. You’re more than welcome to record your presentation if you don’t feel comfortable presenting in front of others. |
| Week 14 |
| Class: Provide academic conference/journal and healthcare-related internship opportunities; review for the Final exam. |
| Week 15 |
| Class: Final exam RESEARCH PAPERS THAT REQUIRED EDITS ARE DUE Friday 12-10-21 by 11:59 pm in the Blackboard Collaborate Assignment Dropbox |
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