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American
Studies
Barnard College, Columbia
University
Approaches to Early American Culture:
Assignments/Weightings
Technical Assignments:
1. Due January 30th -- Locate a useful website on the Internet; communicate its URL and a brief description of its content to the class via the course newsgroup [5%]
2. Due February 6th -- Publish a personal course homepage on the WWW, using your CUNIX account; include an image on your homepage; link it to the EAC course homepage/website [5%]
Substantive/Content Assignments:
3. Due February 27th -- Colonial America -- Publish a digital presentation in which you undertake a textual analysis of one of the original documents/texts assigned for this portion of the course [15%]
4. Due March 13th -- Revolutionary America -- Publish a digital presentation in which you undertake an iconographic analysis of an original image relevant to American culture of the late 18th Century [15%]
4a. March 27th -- Publish a personal assessment of the relative uses and implications of multimedia presentations as against the traditional, hardcopy essay for present purposes (i.e., understanding early American culture) [10% ]
5. Due April 3rd -- The New Republic -- Publish a digital presentation or submit a traditional essay in which you critically compare a secondary account of this period (1800-1830) in one of the pre-1965 "classics" in American Studies with a secondary account written more recently and in keeping with the "new" American Studies [15%]
6. Due May 4th -- Transcendental America -- Publish a digital presentation in which you consider some aspect of American culture (1830-1865) by consciously extending the disciplinary reach beyond public history and textual/literary analysis to include other cultural modalities (e.g., material culture, technology, environment, music, architecture, speech, gender studies, …) [20%]
Finally, regular and informed participation in class and on course homepage discussions [15%]