Hawai`i's Female Heritage

Syllabus

Women's Studies 382 --- Spring, 1996

Tuesdays, 1:30-4:00pm, Room 206, Crawford Hall

Diane Maluso & Lee-Ellen Marvin
Email: maluso@hawaii.edu & lmarvin@sas.upenn.edu
Office: 722 Porteus Hall
Phone: 956-6928

In this class we will learn to reclaim the ethnically diverse creative traditions of Hawai`i's women. We will work in a team (or teams) to explore and share these traditions via interviews, research, discussion, and the creation of a World Wide Web site on the Internet.

Objectives for the Course

To learn about women's traditional creative traditions in Hawai`i's diverse cultural heritage; to understand the ways in which these traditions, in contemporary times, express women's responses to life experience and social roles as well as cultural history.

To learn how to present these creative traditions to a wider audience using the tools of the Internet such as electronic mailing lists and the World Wide Web (WWW).

To learn how to use the tools of oral history and folklore research such as tape-recorded interviews, photographic and video documentation, and transcription; to become comfortable with a variety of cameras and recorders.

Grading

Grading will be determined on a "portfolio" basis. As projects are drafted, work in progress will be shared and constructively critiqued by students and instructors. The projects will be continually revised, based on the critique sessions, until the final class meeting. Grades will be based on the overall quality of the final projects and level of participation in the class meetings.

Schedule

The following schedule is subject to change. Check the Web pages for changes.
January 16
Introduction to the course; discussion about creative traditions; brainstorming topics; creating teams and selecting topics.
Assignment: do preliminary research on topics; obtain UH internet account.
January 23
Introduction to oral history research interviewing methods;
Assignment: do a practice interview on a family member.
January 30
Using email; browsing the World Wide Web (WWW); establishing the class mailing list; reviewing examples of oral history sites on WWW; practice
Assignment: make contacts with women artists for interviews.
February 6
Individual home page construction; results of practice interviews; progress on making initial contact.
Assignment: Team page construction, with results of preliminary research on topics; continue to establish contacts with women artists.
February 13
Complete team page construction and link to project page; critique session of the team and individual pages.
Assignment: begin interviewing.
February 20
Review of Internet topics, reports on first interviews.
Assignment: interviewing.
February 27
Discussion about feminism and culture; working with visuals
Assignment: complete interviewing, documenting.
March 5
Visuals; feminism and culture.
Assignment: create indexes of interviews and documentation.
March 12
Teams review interview materials
Assignment: Design and outline the team pages.
March 19
Building the site
Assignment: Make selected transcripts.
March 26
SPRING BREAK
Assignment: Work on Transcripts and Web Pages.
April 2
Discussion re: feminism and culture; building the site
Assignment: Make digitized versions of images and sounds.
April 9
Building the Web site
Assignment: Write the text elements of the pages.
April 16
Building the Web site; HTML code in depth
Assignment: Write HTML code for the pages.
April 23
Group reviews the site, trouble-shooting links and code.
Assignment: Do final revisions.
April 30
Reception and public presentation of the Web site.
Assignment: Help to prepare and promote the reception; write to friends and family with Internet access.
WS 382 HTML Tutorial

A great HTML tutorial

Hands-On HTML

Another HTML Tutorial

Yet Another HTML Tutorial

HCC On-Line Tutorial

WS 382 Scavenger Hunt

Bibliography of Hawaiian Traditions

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This page was designed and constructed by Diane Maluso . Last updated on May 1, 1996.