Aberrant: departing from the accepted standard. Aberrant Approach: Crafted online assignments that challenged standard and “proper” methods for how to critically engage with ideas and then demonstrate that engagement and that enabled students to queer our class.
Course: Queering Theory, Fall 2009, Upper-level Undergraduate seminar
BEFORE: Queering Theory Assignments, Spring 2008
- Group Presentation (40%)
- 1 twelve-fifteen page paper or 3 five page papers (40%)
- Participation (20%)
AFTER: Queering Theory Assignments, Fall 2009
- Class Participation (20%)
- Final Wrap-up blog post (20%)
- 2 Presentations, related to work on blog (20%)
- Blog Entries and Active Engagement (40%)
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