Spring 2022

Spring 2022, I will be teaching:

All sections will be asynchronous (meaning no set group meeting times)
The courses will not be facilitated on Blackboard. Instead, there will be a course website that serves as a hub for the work we will be doing

Contract Grading: I lay out what work is required what grade levels and if you do the work, you get the grade
- There will be core assignments that must be completed to pass the course (with a C)
- There will be 2 additional projects that can be completed to earn a B (one additional project of choice) or A (both additional projects)
Mastery Grading Scheme: Assignment by assignment, rather than points, assignments are graded Credit (CR) / Revise for Credit (RC) / No Credit (NC)
- There is no penalty for needing to revise and you can revise as many times as you need to meet the standards of the assignments
- Requests for revisions will come with clear notes and suggestions

This will be a zero-cost course, meaning any materials will either be open access or available through the Meriam Library.

You will need to acquire the texts for this course. Note that for each unit you will get to choose between two options:

Unit 1: either
- Fábio Moon & Gabriel Bá’s Daytripper (graphic novel) or
- Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist (audiobook available)
Unit 2: either
- Sonny Liew’s The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye (graphic novel) or
- Julia Alvarez’s In the Time of the Butterflies (audiobook available)
Unit 3: either
- Keum Suk Gendry-Kim’s Grass (graphic novel) or
- Trevor Noah’s Born a Crime (audiobook available)

You will need to acquire the texts for this course. Note that for each unit you will get to choose between two options.

Unit 1: either
- Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us (poetry/audiobook available) or
- Hasan Minhaj, Homecoming King (stand-up comedy/available through Netflix)
Unit 2: either
- Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior (memoir/audiobook available) or
- Thi Bui, The Best We Could Do (memoir/graphic novel)
Unit 3: either
- Eve L. Ewing, Electric Arches (poetry/audiobook available) or
- Whoopi Goldberg, Direct from Broadway (stand-up comedy/available through HBOMax)