Assignment Author
Tim TurnerPedagogical Goals of the Assignment
Goals and Purposes:

• To ensure that students are keeping up with the reading and engaging with the material and the ideas presented in the course.
• To maintain a record of student development over the course of the semester. This record will not only provide a sense of consistent issues in student writing, but also of where the class has been in terms of content and ideas.
• To help students prepare for the final project, which will involve revising these journal entries as part of a larger, written response to the course's content.

Assignment Author
Tim TurnerPedagogical Goals of the Assignment
Goals: The primary goal of this project is to encourage students to reflect on the ideas, theories, problems, solutions, communities, and questions they have encountered in the reading and discussion they have done for this course over the semester. The project will ask you to revisit earlier texts from the course (by revising your reading response entries and by writing new material about them) in light of new ideas that have arisen after, say, we read Maurice in September and an article on gender theory in October. Students will also be asked to filter this response through an appropriate critical/analytical lens (as provided by readings from the course packet selected by the student). Finally, this project will give students a little bit of experience in web-page formatting and application (the skills required to do this are pretty minimal).

Assignment Author
Tim TurnerPedagogical Goals of the Assignment
Assignment/Goals: For the final paper, students will write a "capstone" essay reflecting on a question put forward by Michael Warner, provided below. This essay is also designed to foster some reflection on the nature of the word "queer" as it may be applied to the texts, secondary and primary, we have read this semester.

Assignment Author
Tim TurnerPedagogical Goals of the Assignment
Goals: This paper asks students to combine close-reading of a literary work with application of some theoretical knowledge from a secondary source. Students will discuss how and why the ideas presented in the secondary source do (or do not) relate and apply to the literary work in question; or discuss how the literary work exemplifies (or does not exemplify) the argument of the secondary source.

Assignment Author
Tim TurnerPedagogical Goals of the Assignment
Goals: This paper should be a close, detailed reading of a passage from Kushner's play. Students will choose a passage from the list provided by the instructor below. This assignment is designed to be limited in scope in order to encourage you to narrow your focus and analyze a relatively small portion of the text. The key phrase for this assignment is "close reading": careful attention to the density and richness of literary language. We will discuss some strategies for close reading in class before this assignment is due; you should also take a look at this description.

Assignment Author
Tim TurnerPedagogical Goals of the Assignment
Goals: This paper should be a close, detailed reading of a passage from Forster's Maurice. This assignment is designed to be limited in scope in order to encourage you to narrow your focus and analyze a relatively small portion of the text. The key phrase for this assignment is "close reading": careful attention to the density and richness of literary language. We will discuss some strategies for close reading in class before this assignment is due; you should also take a look at this description for some pointers.