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Week #15: Gender and sexuality in the workplace

Wed 5:14pm This week in seminar we're going to talk about your thoughts about and experiences with issues related to gender at your organization, and in the larger society. To have a few common texts to center our discussion, I'd like everyone to read the two articles below and answer some questions beforehand on your blog. That being said, I don't pretend to necessarily have the best questions to ask about this, so if you have suggestions for what you think would be other interesting ways to look at this issue together, please let me know (or just come to seminar ready to suggest them). Some of you may have done more thinking than others up to now about how gender affects relationships and roles at your internship site, and other places. If you haven’t thought or noticed about this much yet, I encourage you to take a step back and consider that often these dynamics are not always obvious to everyone, but that they nevertheless do exist all around us. That’s not to say...

Week #13: Project Progress Documentation / Reflection

Please answer the following questions as part of your required documentation of the process of completing your capstone project: 1) What you have done so far for your project? This can include a summary of further brainstorming, planning, discussions you've had with mentors/colleagues; it can include photographs showing the steps you have completed so far (try to get shots of  you  working on the project); other documents you are creating; a list of steps you have completed, etc.  Throughout the life of the project, be sure you are making both written and visual documentation of the process. 2) What adjustments, revisions, changes, etc. have you made since conceiving of your idea for this project? What has caused you to make these adjustments? 3) Whose help have you gotten, and how are they helping you? Whose help do you still need more of? 4) What are you learning as you work on this project? What are you getting out of this process? 5) Do you (or your col...