Please note that on Mondays, HONR 159J will meet in Room 0111 Tydings. On Wednesdays, HONR 159J will meet in Room 3140, Engineering Bldg.

Jan. 29: Course Introduction

Jan. 31: Computer Lab Session--Intro to Windows, Netscape, WWW

READING: Fishman, Bourgeois Utopias (begin)

Feb. 5: Images of Suburbia

READING: Fishman, Bourgeois Utopias

*Feb. 7: History of Suburbia

READING: Fishman, Bourgeois Utopias (finish)

Feb. 12: Suburbs: Arcadia for Everyone?

Feb. 14: Home Pages: Introduction to Pico and HTML

*Feb. 19: Suburbia then...and now--Is suburbia dead? Bourgeois Utopias--but for whom?

READING: Howells, "Mrs. Johnson; Johnson, "From Romantic Suburb to Racial Enclave: LeDroit Park, Washington, D.C., 1880-1920" (coursepack)

Feb. 21: Home Pages II: More HTML, Hyperlinks, Cutting and Pasting

ASSIGNMENT: Project I: Analysis of Suburban Artifact(s)

*Feb. 26: Suburbia and Domestic Style in the Populuxe Era; Artifact Analysis

READING: Hine, Populuxe (excerpts)

Feb. 28: Project Pages: Local and Global links, GIFS, FTP

*Mar. 4: The Material Trappings of Suburbia

Mar. 6: Work Session: Mounting Project I

*Mar. 11: Domestic Suburbia: For Better and For Worse

READING: May: "Hanging Together: For Better and For Worse" (#6 in Coursepack)

*Mar. 13: Presentation/Discussion of Project I

DUE: Project I

ASSIGNMENT: Project II: Analysis of Race, Class, Sex, Age, and/or Gender in Suburbia in Literature, TV, or Film

*Mar. 25: Literary Images of Suburbia: Short Hills, NJ

READING: Roth, Goodbye, Columbus (read the title novelette only)

*Mar. 27: Suburbia and Social Class in Short Hills

*Apr. 1: Suburbia and the American Dream on Film

VIEWING: Avalon and A Raisin in the Sun

Apr. 3: Work Session: Critiques of Project II

*Apr. 8: Studies in Race and Exclusion: How it Works

READING: Jackson, "Federal Subsidy and the American Dream"; Muller, excerpts from Contemporary Suburban America; Orser, "Secondhand Suburbs: Black Pioneers in Baltimore's Edmondson Village, 1955-1980" (#s 4-6 in Coursepack)

Apr. 10: Presentation of Project II and Assignment of Project III

DUE: Project II

ASSIGNMENT: Project III: Research Project on Greenbelt, MD

Apr. 15: Fieldtrip to Greenbelt

Apr. 17: Greenbelt vs. The City

*Apr. 22: Suburbia Behind the Veil

READING: Didion, "Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream"; excerpts from Geist, "Have a Safe and Sane Halloween" (#s 7 and 8 in coursepack)

*Apr. 29: The Environmental Impact of Suburbia

READING: Jenkins, "A Green Velvety Lawn" (#9 in Coursepack)

May 1: Work Session: Project III critiques

*May 6: Greenbelt Project: Oral Hyperlinks; Is Suburbia America? Is America Suburbia?

READING: Sharpe and Wallock, "Bold New City or Built-Up 'Burb?" (#10 in Coursepack)

May 8: Presentation of Project III

DUE: Project III

May 15: Toward a More Constructive Suburban Environment

May 18: Portfolios will be graded at the close of final exam period, 10:00 am.