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 that links information about specific US wars to events at the College and in the town of Middlebury. (Stameshkin's The Town's College and The Strength of the Hills should be helpful here.) Timelines will be due in class on Thursday, January 13. We will discuss these timelines in class as we prepare to launch our website on the College in Wartime.

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 or more collaborative websites. Each student will keep a portfolio detailing their contributions to the collaborative projects. Students will also independently author at least one interpretive section (2-3 pages each, double-spaced) for each of the websites. The text of these interpretive sections should be kept in students' portfolios together with journal entries and should be submitted to me on Thursday, January 27.

4. Self-directed group research at the Sheldon and Special Collections. (See the attached information on research hours.)

5. 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.

Please sign the honor code on all of your written work for this course.