Dear Everyone!
My name is Nichole and I was not in this class last week, but I'm super excited to be a part of it now. I just transferred to UCF this semester, from UNC-Charlotte (but I'm from Florida) as a sophomore. I'm currently a History major and I'm planning on a Women's Study minor. I discovered about a year ago that I'm a full-blown feminist, after a really good friend of mine told me to read Full Frontal Feminism by Jessica Vallenti, if anyone's interested it's really good and she's funny too, I actually just decided to minor in Women's Studies, although I've taken WST classes prior to this one.
I never really thought of a degree in WST I would just take classes because I thought it was interesting and enraging stuff! I'm constantly trying to interest my friends in readig WST-ish books, I will also resort to ranting so much about things that my friend Collins could practically sell the DivaCup now, or if nothing else I try to point out the small things, like the way everyone says 'guys' in reference to mixed company all the time, which I've noticed even more lately. Anyways, aside from WST, Girl's Studies is just as important to learn about. I feel like from a small age boys and girls are treated differently and expected to do different things which can discourage women later on in life from taking on leadership roles, or not even consider it. It is important to communicate to women and girls how important it is to become leaders and for all of us to learn how to teach girls to fill leadership roles.
I see Girls Studies focusing more on how adolescent and even younger girls are affected by gender politics and society, and how problems affecting women today can we tackled through fixing them first in the youth (girls and boys). In many ways Girls Studies is almost a preventative study to a lot of Women's Studies issues, like education (sexual included), health, and even sexism.
Unfortuately, I'm not currently holding any leadership positions, but my definition of leadership would be: a position held by someone that has the skills and ability to influence others to make good decisions or come to productive resolutions to problems. I have mentored elementary school kids and unintentionally became the leader of my service project for my War,Genocide, and Human Rights learning community last year; but in all honesty I want and need more opportunities and skills to hold a leading role, which I hope I can achieve through this class.
This one is for Ms.Tweed,
I have read the syllabus and feel good about the set up. Do you know if I can use my 15 hours of SL for my other class too? or is that like double- couponing? No big if I can't. I also expect to be absent 0 times so don't worry. Lastly, unlike probably everyone else on the planet I have not read Twilight, but did make the mistake of seeing the movie.. and was curious if we are in fact reading it this semester or if that was a typo on the syllabus??? :) Anywho! see you Tuesday.
