Nature, Gender, and Race in the Caribbean: 

A Curriculum Development/Research Project

A breakdown of possible tasks for research assistants/partners

I.  Overall goal

To build and share interdisciplinary knowledge about any aspects of nature, gender, and race in the Caribbean, especially pertaining in some way to the course descriptions for FSP 101 12 Caribbean:  From Columbus to Globalization (Spring 2004) and WGS 375 Global Feminisms: Ecofeminism and the Caribbean (Fall 2004)

II.  Tasks in support of First-Year Seminar, Spring 2004

1.  Participate in the class as a learner and co-facilitator

2.  Collaborate in planning classroom activities and assignments

3.  Present talks/presentations/discussions on topics related to your research

4.  Identify special resources (e.g. film, music, events, news items, etc.) for the course

5.  Participate together in ongoing critique and reflection on how the course is going

III.  Tasks toward the development of Global Feminisms, Fall 2004

1.  Identify good interdisciplinary reading materials, visuals, and websites related to any component of the topic (ecofeminist theory/activism AND Caribbean feminist scholarship/art/literature/activism are the two main components, with a host of stuff linking and surrounding them)

Here is a rough start on the list of potential resources I've collected to date; all of this needs exploring and sifting through.

2.  Find out who the key scholars are, what the important organizations are, what the stand-out issues are; learn some names and what they mean

3.  Learn terms and concepts and figure out why they matter; discover what the "dots" are that we need to connect in order to get what the course is all about 

4.  Identify good stories (about people, movements, history) that help illuminate the "dots" and their connections

5.  Envision ways of bringing this material to life through written and in-class assignments