15 of your final grade academic integrity see nyus

15% of your final grade.
Academic Integrity: See NYU’s full statement on academic integrity:
. Any instance of academic dishonesty

will result in an F and will reported to the relevant dean for disciplinary action.
Please remember that plagiarism is a matter of fact, not intention.
Grading breakdown :
Attendance and participation: 10%
Critical reflections: 24%
Short analytical essays: 50%
Group keywords assignments: 15%
Consulting the syllabus before asking basic questions regarding the course
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1%
Total: 100%

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chronic, psychological, visual, mobility, learning disability, or is deaf or hard of
hearing. Students should please register with the Moses Center for Students with
Disabilities at 212-998-4980 .
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Schedule of Readings and Assignments
T 9/3 Introduction to Course
Th 9/5 The Theory Toolbox , Chapter 1: “Why Theory?”
“How Science Works” (NYU Classes)
T 9/10 René Descartes, Discourse on the Method of Rightly
Conducting the Reason,
and Seeking the Truth in the Sciences (NYU Classes)
Th 9/12 The Theory Toolbox , Chapter 2: “Author/ity”
Donna Haraway, “Situated Knowledges” (NYU Classes)
[Tu 9/16 – Fri 9/18 No Recitations: Begin work on keywords assignments]
T 9/17 John Locke, Two Treaties on Government (NYU Classes)
Th 9/19 The Theory Toolbox , Chapter 3: “Reading”
Sojourner Truth, “On Woman’s Right” (NYU Classes)
Julian Bond, “Nonviolence: An Interpretation” (NYU Classes)
José Esteban Muñoz, “Queerness as Horizon” (NYU Classes)
T 9/24 The Theory Toolbox , Chapter 4: “Subjectivity”
Louis Althusser, “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses”
(NYU Classes)
Tavia Nyong’o, “Subject” (NYU Classes)
Th 9/26 The Theory Toolbox , Chapter 5: “Culture”
Stuart Hall, “The Question of Cultural Identity” (NYU Classes)
Writing Workshop with Noelle Molé Liston
T 10/1 No Class Meeting
Film: Queen of Versailles
Th 10/3 Pierre Bourdieu, from Distinction