Description of Project: 

This course provides a small number of third or fourth year under-graduate students with the opportunity to produce and edit an undergraduate journal focused on issues relating to feminism, gender, and sexuality. 

Method of Evaluation: 

Journal: 50%
Manual: 20% 
Mid-term progress report: 10% 
Reflection paper: 10%
Timely completion: 10%

Course Outline: 

This course provides a small number (3 or 4) of third or fourth year under-graduate students with the opportunity to produce and edit an undergraduate journal focused on issues relating to feminism, gender, and sexuality. This project is collaborative and, for the most part, independent. There is a faculty supervisor, but students are expected to work together to allocate responsibilities and to ensure timely completion.

Responsibilities include:

Determining the volume’s theme; applying for funding; advertising for submissions; selecting entries and notifying authors; edit-work; assessing mid-term progress; hiring copy-editors; ensuring quality of final essays; design and production of the journal; pricing production costs; co-ordinating with the College of Arts Financial Officer; planning the journal launch event; preparing an annual ‘course manual’; and submitting a 3 page, double-spaced reflection on participating in the collective.  

Learning objectives: 

This course seeks to fulfil all of the Learning Objectives outlined in the University of Guelph Calendar. Students will especially focus on:

1. Strengthening critical and creative thinking skills through engagement with each other, the submitted materials, and other participants in the journal publication process. 
2. Learning how to apply for funding and most effectively use it. 
3. Enhancing worldviews, as well as their moral and aesthetic maturity, through analyses of varied forms of theoretical and empirical approaches to issues relating to feminism, gender and sexuality – and presenting them for public consumption.
4. Developing practical, collaborative work skills.

Course Arrangements:

There are no pre-set meeting times, though it is suggested that students meet on a weekly basis to discuss developments. A mid-term meeting with the supervisor is required. The journal, manual, and reflection paper are due on or before the last day of classes. 

Prerequisites: 

Students are required to have completed at least two years of undergraduate study. 

*Please note: This is a preliminary web course description only. The department reserves the right to change without notice any information in this description. The final, binding course outline will be distributed in the first class of the semester.

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