Accessing required readings on e-reserves

As I mentioned in class yesterday, the required readings for each week are listed on the course schedule. The readings include both selections from your textbook and chapters and articles from other sources. Most of the readings beyond your textbook, including this week’s chapter by Haviland et al., are available through the UF Libraries electronic course reserves, also known as ARES (automating reserves). On the course schedule, simply click on the link from the first author’s name to access ARES. (The link will take you directly to the article only if it’s freely available on the web.)

If you have never used ARES before, you will have to sign up first, using your UFID. Then, once you log on to the system, search for ANT 2301, add it to your personal page, and click on readings to access them as PDFs. If you are off campus, you will have to log on to the UF network either through VPN or using the library’s proxy remote logon. Don’t worry if you don’t know what these things are: The library has step-by-step instructions on their website.

For more help on accessing articles through ARES, see the tutorial videos on the library website.

Some of the journal articles are available directly from the journal’s website. But to access the articles, you’ll need to be working on a campus computer or be connected to the university network through VPN or the proxy remote logon. Learning how to use these tools for off-campus access to the library will save you a lot of time down the road.

If you have other questions or tips to share, please leave a comment below.

Welcome to Fall 2009

Roger Hock, Human Sexuality (Second Edition)Welcome to the course web site for ANT 2301, Human Sexuality and Culture, at the University of Florida. This course is one of the largest at the University, enrolling some 650 students each term. The size of the course makes it difficult for me to get to know many of you personally. This semester, for the third time, we will use this course blog as a new way to communicate with each other. We’re also going to experiment with some new ways to communicate—like Twitter.

This website will be an important part of the course. Some materials—including the syllabus, announcements, and details on assignments—will only be available here. The website will also host a blog for the course in order to encourage discussion on relevant news or events around campus, to share thoughts about how the themes of the course relate to current events as well as to share thoughts on the themes themselves, and to stimulate thinking about assigned readings and course material. I strongly encourage you to post comments on the blog to share your point of view or to pose questions that you’d like to raise for discussion with other students, the TAs, and me. You’re also welcome to write your own blog post, if you’re interested. Follow the link at the bottom of this page to register for an account. Then let me know you’d like to write a post, and I’ll give you access to do so.

The easiest way to keep up with the web site is to subscribe to the course RSS feed. Just click on the link to “All Posts” on the right-hand side of the page. You’ll have the option of adding the course feed to your favorite feed reader (if you use one) or of receiving a daily email any time there’s new content on the site. Judging by last semester’s experience, most of you will probably want to subscribe by email.

(Some of you may be receiving this post by email because you’re still subscribed from a previous semester. You’re welcome to follow along—we’re still talking about sex!—but if you’d rather not receive any more updates, just click the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email you received.)

You can also click on the subscribe to “Comments” using the link on the right. When you subscribe to comments, you’ll be notified any time someone adds a comment to a post on the blog. I hope this feature will encourage you to participate in the discussion with other students and with your instructors.

We look forward to a great semester and hope you do, too. What do you hope to learn about in this course? Leave a comment below to let us know.