SPCL 3000 LGBTQ Youth in Educational Contexts (Greytak)

Paper Assignment #2: Final Learning Statement & Course Feedback Form

• Description: A 3-5 page paper describing your learning in this course that identifies, discusses, and explores the educational gains you made in the course. The statement is autobiographical in the sense that it’s located in your experience of the course—the readings, class discussions and videos, films, and assignments. The statement is also academic in the sense that it asks you to intersect your experience with the course’s scholarship and experiential activities (readings, media, assignments, and class activities)
• Details and Rubric Assignment Paper Final Learning Essay below
• Submit completed paper assignment via Blackboard & Complete Course Feedback Form and take the action at the end of the form (this lets me know you completed it, because it is anonymous), also complete the evaluation form for CUNY Brooklyn College please!
  • Due:  By 11:59pm - 

Watch: my last Weekly Talk (approx 10 min) with overview of these final assignments, final closing reflection, and good bye!

Evaluations

• Required: complete my Course Evaluation, it's anonymous, but it is required. At the end of the evaluation, you will get a link to a different form to confirm you completed the anonymous evaluation. I really value your feedback, I take it seriously and use it to make changes for future semesters of this course. Thank you!! You have an extra day to do this, but it must be submitted no later than 5/15 .

• Optional: complete the Brooklyn College Course Evaluation. This is optional but I encourage it, it's for CUNY. You can complete it by logging into the WebCentral portal at http://portal.brooklyn.edu. It's optional, but they provide these incentives if you take it: You can do this up until ADD 2025 DATE.
  • Early notification of course grades (i.e., shortly after faculty submit their grades) via eGrade messages and on the WebCentral Portal. Others will have to wait until grades are officially posted in CUNYfirst possibly a week later.
  • Early access to fellow students’ ratings in time for Spring 2025 semester program changes.
  • Lottery Incentive – 20 undergraduate students, by random drawing, will be added to the “Upper Senior” registration group for Fall 2025 registration.
  • The opportunity to play an important role in enhancing academic excellence at Brooklyn College.
     by logging into the WebCentral portal at http://portal.brooklyn.edu. It is optional, but offers these incentives for those who complete it:

Extra Credit

You can submit up to 2 (worth up to 5 points each). For each extra credit assignment:

• Watch, listen or participate in specific media, event, or activity related to LGBTQ+ youth, LGBTQ education, or LGBTQ+ community (some possibilities are at the bottom of this message, and if you know of one you’d like to suggest, let me know) 
• AND
• Write a 1 page reflection paper describing what you watched/listened/participated in, your thoughts on it, and relate it to what we are learning in the course. 
• Select one of my suggestions OR if you have your own ideas, email me for approval
• DUE: All extra credit assignments must be submitted no later than . Submit via Blackboard

• SOME OPTIONS (if you have another one, reach out to me to get it approved!):

  Podcasts (you can find at link or on apple podcasts or spotify, listen to 1 episode, not one that you already listened to for this class):

  -     Queer Teen Podcast
  -      Rainbow Parenting

  -     Making Gay History

  -     One From the Vaults - A Trans History Podcast

  -     LGBTQ & A

  Events

  In person OR virtual events at Brooklyn College LGBTQ Resource Center or Brooklyn Pride Center or  The Center

  LGBTQ Walking History Tours