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| Date | Topic | Assignments |
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| September 1 | Course Introduction | READING:
ASSIGNMENT: |
| September 3 | Lab Session--Computer Accounts, Intro to Windows, Netscape, WWW | READING: Fishman, Bourgeois
Utopias (begin) ASSIGNED: Virtual Exhibition Critique--(due 9-10) |
| September 8 | Images of Suburbia | READING: Fishman, Bourgeois Utopias
ASSIGNED: Project I: Analysis of Suburban Artifact(s) |
| September 10 | History of Suburbia | READING: Fishman, Bourgeois Utopias
(finish)
ASSIGNED: Homework: Questions About Suburbia--due 9-15 |
| September 15 | Home Page Tutorial: Introduction to Pico and HTML | READING:
ASSIGNMENT: Homework: Improve Your Home Page, due 9-17 |
| September 17 | *The Material Trappings of Post-WW2
Suburbia RPs: Arthur Hobson, Eric Karnes |
READING: Hine, Populuxe, chs. 1-3
(in coursepack)
ASSIGNMENT: Homework: Search for Sources for Project I, due 9-24 |
| September 22 | Artifact Analysis--One Way to Do It | READING:
ASSIGNMENT: Webchat Conversation on Populuxe Issues, due 9-29 |
| September 24 |
*Case
Studies of Artifact Analysis RPs: Kate Gargurevich, Greg Skipper | READING: Jenkins, "Green, Velvety Lawn" (in coursepack),
and Clarke, "Tupperware," in Silverstone, Visions of Suburbia
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| September 29 | More HTML, Hyperlinks, Cutting and Pasting, Capturing Images, Backgrounds | READING:
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| October 1 | Work Session: Critical
Thinking; Artifact Analysis Critiques
ASSIGNED: Hypertext Links Assignment, due 10-8 |
ASSIGNMENT DUE: Draft of Project I Mounted |
| October 6 | Presentation/Discussion of Project I | ASSIGNMENT DUE: Project I |
| October 8 | HTML Techniques; Music of Suburbia Guest Speaker: Greg Wahl |
RECOMMENDED READING: Frith, "The Suburban
Sensibility in British Rock and Pop," or LeBeau, "The Worst of All
Possible Worlds," in Silverstone, Visions of Suburbia
ASSIGNED: Project II: Analysis of Representations of Suburbia |
| October 13 | *Literary Representations of Social Class in Suburbia RPs: David Malitz, Bryan Youmans |
READING: Roth, Goodbye, Columbus (read
the title novelette only)
ASSIGNMENT: |
| October 15 | *Analyzing Images of the Suburban Family RPs: Rob Crider, Joe Mulligan |
READING: Kozol, "Kind of People Who Make Good
Americans" (in coursepack) ASSIGNMENT: Life Magazine Images |
| October 20 | Sociology: Domestic Suburbia, For
Better and For Worse Guest Speaker: Kelly Quinn |
READING: "Hanging Together: For Better and
For Worse" (#6 in Coursepack) ASSIGNMENT: |
| October 22 |
*Journalism: The Suburbia Behind the Veil RPs: Ericka Boston, David Liebesman Hypertext Links Second Chance! |
READING: Didion, "Some Dreamers of the Golden
Dream," Geist, excerpts from Have a Safe and Sane Halloween, Basch,
et al, "Transnational Projects" (all in coursepack)
ASSIGNMENT: Special Offer: Webchat Extra Credit |
| October 27 | *Suburbia and the American Dream on Film RPs: Arielle Fishman, Sara Goodman, Sara Klemm |
VIEWING: Levinson, Avalon
ASSIGNMENT: |
| October 29 | *Suburbia and the American Home on Film and
TV RPs: Jen Frieman, Rachel Molinaro |
VIEWING: Petrie, A Raisin in the Sun
READING: Spigel, "From Theatre to Space Ship," in Silverstone, Visions of Suburbia |
| November 3 | *Racial Exclusion in Suburbia: How it Works
RPs: Katie Marcot, David Whitehill |
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" (in Coursepack)
ASSIGNMENT: |
| November 5 | Worksession: Race, Class, Gender, Family, Age, and Sexuality in Representations of Suburbia: Critiques | ASSIGNMENT DUE: Draft of Project II Mounted |
| November 10 | Presentation of Project II and Assignment of Project III | ASSIGNMENT
DUE: Project II, hyperlinked ASSIGNED: |
| November 12 | Fieldtrip to Greenbelt Webchat: Analysis of Greenbelt as Model Town, Due 11-17 |
READING: ASSIGNED: Project III: Imagining a Better American Community |
| November 17 | *Critiques of Post-1970s Suburbia RPs: Denis Flanagan, Tim Winters |
READING: Langdon, Better Place to Live
(read preface, chs 1-4); review ch. 7 of Bourgeois Utopias
ASSIGNMENT: |
| November 19 | Ideas for Model Suburbs: "The City" (film) | READING:
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| November 24 | Growing up in a Model Community (Guest Speaker, Mr. Lee Shields) | READING:
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| November 26 | THANKSGIVING! | READING:
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| December 1 | *Imagining Better Communities RPs: Emily Dammeyer, Yael Zakai |
READING:Langdon, Better Place to Live
(read chs 5-10)
ASSIGNMENT: |
| December 3 | Imagining Better Communities II--Design Ideas | READING:
ASSIGNMENT: |
| December 8 | Worksession on
Project
III Teaching Theatre Student Feedback Survey |
READING:
ASSIGNMENT DUE: Draft of Project III Mounted |
| December 10 | Final Forum on American Suburbia | READING:
ASSIGNMENT DUE: Project III, Revised |
| December 17 | Final Exam Portfolio | DUE: Portfolios will be graded at the close of the final exam period, 12:30 p.m. |