AMERICAN STUDIES WEB MUSEUM

REQUIREMENTS

1. Participation:

Class participation is vital in a small, collaborative course such as this. All course members should be prepared to contribute actively at every class meeting. Since this is winter term and we have a limited number of class meetings, students are expected to have perfect attendance.

2. Written notes and highlighted passages from Stameshkin:

Each student will draft a timeline of the history of the College using Stameshkin's The Town's College. Please include three passages from each chapter that we might include in our website on the College history. Timelines will be due in class on Wednesday, January 14. We will discuss these timelines in class as we prepare to launch our website on the history of the College.

3. Collaborative research and website preparation:

This is the main substance of our work during winter term. Each student will complete clearly defined research, writing, and technical tasks related to the preparation of three collaborative websites. Each student will keep a simple journal detailing their contributions to the collaborative projects. Students will also independently author one interpretive section (2-3 pages each, double-spaced) for each of the three websites. The text of these interpretive sections should be kept in a portfolio together with students' journal entries and should be submitted to me on Wednesday, January 27.

4. Technological learning:

Students come to the course with varying degrees of proficiency with Dreamweaver, scanning software, and other educational technologies. A large part of what we will learn in this course is how to use a range of educational technologies to preserve unique cultural artifacts and contribute to a broader scholarly conversation about America's cultural past. We will also learn the principles and pragmatics of web design appropriate to our particular agenda as students of American civilization.