For each journal entry, you will reflect on and synthesize that week’s assigned readings and videos. These journals are a space to think through what you are learning in class. This is not a formal paper. Your journal should be a place for you to work through ideas, ask questions, and make connections between the course learning materials (assigned readings, lecture videos, discussion boards, etc.) and the world around you.

Use your journal to:

Compare and contrast the different feminist theories and frameworks you’re reading about, and consider how they help explain the lived experiences of Chicanas/Latinas in the U.S., the Caribbean, and Latin America
Connect course concepts to current events, media, your own observations, and lived experiences
Reflect on how gender intersects with race, ethnicity, national origin, immigration status, social class, and sexuality in the readings, and what these intersections reveal about power, privilege, and oppression
Grapple with ideas that challenge you, confuse you, or that you disagree with, and explain why or which parts you disagree with or are confused by
Ask questions
Writing regularly will help you process what you’re reading and start formulating your own thoughts, ideas, and opinions related to gender, identity, power structures, and feminist movements.

that reflects on and synthesizes the assigned readings and videos for the week.

Please note that this should not be a simple summary of the readings. This should be a reflection of your thinking, not a recap.