syllabus

Class Syllabus

WMS 2901 Term III, 1997

Monday - Friday, 8:50 am - noon, Harris Hall & The Apple Orchard

Diane Maluso
Email: dmaluso@elmira.edu
Office: 238 McGraw Hall
Phone: 735-1907

In this class we will engage in a scholarly exploration of women's creative traditions in upstate New York. After conducting oral histories of living female artisans, 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 women's creative traditions in upstate New York's diverse cultural heritage and understand how they express women's responses to life experience, social roles, and cultural history.
To learn how to present these creative traditions to a wider audience using software and the Internet
To learn how to use the tools of oral history and folklore research such as tape-recorded interviews, photographic and video documentation, and transcription.

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 the instructor. 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, member home pages, and level of participation in the class and team meetings .
Schedule
The following schedule is subject to change. Check this Web page frequently for any changes.

WEEK ONE:
April 21 Introduction to the course; discussion about creative traditions; brainstorming topics; creating teams and selecting topics. Assignment: obtain EC Email account.
April 22 Using email; browsing the World Wide Web (WWW); establishing the class mailing list; reviewing examples of oral history sites on WWW; practice Assignment: do preliminary research on topics.
April 23 Introduction to oral history research interviewing methods; practice interviews. Assignment: make contacts with women artists for interviews.
April 24 Class field trip to see examples of women's art. Assignment: catalog your interview tape; gather materials for individual home page.
April 25 Individual home page construction; progress on making initial contact. Assignment: do preliminary research on topics; continue to establish contacts with women artists.
WEEK TWO:
April 28 Group work: library and net research on topic. Contact artists. Assignment: BeginTeam page construction, with results of preliminary research on topics; continue to establish contacts with women artists.
April 29 Working with Visuals
May 1 Feminism and Culture Group Construction of Interview Formats
May 2 Conduct Interviews of Artists
WEEK THREE:
May 5 Conduct Interviews and Catalog tapes.
May 6 Conduct Interviews and review tapes. Construct web sites.
May 8 Conduct Interviews and Construct Web Sites and Create Tape Transcripts.
May 9 Construct Web Sites and Create Tape Transcripts.
WEEK FOUR:
May 12 Basic Site Layout should be Complete
May 13 Site navigation in place
May 15 Feminism and Culture
May 16 ALL GRAPHICS SHOULD BE SCANNED IN
WEEK FIVE:
May 19 BUILD THE WEB SITES ALL WEEK LONG
May 20 ALL TEXT DUE IN CLASS
May 22 Build
May 23 Build
WEEK SIX:
May 26 Group reviews the site, trouble-shooting links and code. Assignment: Do final revisions.
May 27 Finish final revisions. Final revisions to member home pages.
May 28 Reception and public presentation of the Web site. Assignment: Help to prepare and promote the reception; write to friends and family with Internet access. Brag!

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