Men's Studies Course and Assignments

These pages offer college and university students and teachers a course model and assignments on men’s experience in North America.  The assignments are statistics – based and based on research books, some with Canadian data.  Information from the US Bureau of Statistics and the Men’s Health Network (USA) may be easily adapted to suit these assignments to American needs.

Some of these assignments are intended to deflate feminist claims on sexual assault, sex abuse hysteria, media bias, boys versus girls in education, the mass media biases on men and women, and the silicone breast implant hysteria.  Texts by leading women critics of feminism are included in the term paper assignments.  Students who want to propose one of these term papers to a professor will find most of the bibliography and even the chapters in each book ready for research.

A professor who wants to teach a course on men’s lives will find most of the course contents, down to the weekly class contents, available on these pages.  We welcome comments (no attachments, please) and J. Asher is available to lecture on teaching a course on men’s lives.


Contents

Media Articles on Jefferey Asher (two in newspaper form, four in text only)

Course Outline

Men’s Lives: Proposal, Contents, Textbooks, Assignments, and Resources

Opinion Survey for classroom use: What Do You Think About Men?


Term Paper Topics and Assignment Instructions

Divorced Fathers
A research report on: Bias and accuracy, in government reports, social science research and the mass media.

A Man
A report on how a man fulfils or fails at changing definitions of masculinity

Science on Trial
A term paper on: Bias and accuracy in government reports, social science research and the mass media. Included: Select Crime Statistics for Canada 1994.

Sex Bias
A term paper based on Index Surveys of Newspaper and Research Publications

The War Against Boys
A term paper on bias and accuracy in government reports, social science research and the mass media.

Tawana Brawley Case
A term paper on a false rape and race accusation in New York City - Bias, Prejudice and Evidence in Newspapers and Magazines



Classroom Discussion Assignments

'Harassment' Dilemmas

Pregnancy Dilemmas

Statistics

The Deadly Hazards of Being Male In Canada, 2000


Some Informative Links

American Fathers' Coalition

Criticisms of Feminism

Fathers' Network

Men’s Defense Association and the journal “The Liberator”

Women's Freedom Organisation