| [ description | objectives | requirements | readings | calendar | grading | policies ] |
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| Date | Topic | Assignments |
|---|---|---|
| September 2 | Course Introduction | READING:
ASSIGNMENT:Letter: What is your relationship to suburbia? (Due 9-9) |
| September 7 | Lab Session--Computer Accounts, Intro to Windows, Netscape, WWW | READING: Fishman, Bourgeois
Utopias (begin); Optional Reading: Silverstone, "Introduction,"
Visions of Suburbia ASSIGNED: Virtual Exhibition Critique--(due 9-14) |
| September 9 | Images of Suburbia | READING: Fishman, Bourgeois Utopias
ASSIGNED: Project I: Analysis of Suburban Artifact(s) |
| September 14 | Home Page Tutorial: Introduction to Pico and HTML | READING:
ASSIGNMENT: Homework: Improve Your Home Page, due 9-16 |
| September 16 | *History of Suburbia | READING: Fishman, Bourgeois Utopias
(finish); Wiese, "Introduction," (coursepack)
ASSIGNED: Homework: Questions About Suburbia--due 9-21 |
| September 21 | *The Material Trappings of Post-WW2
Suburbia RPs: Paula Yellon, Josh Eiserike |
READING: Hine, Populuxe, chs. 1-3
(in coursepack)
ASSIGNMENT: |
| September 23 | Artifact Analysis--One Way to Do It | READING:
Stewart, "Our Love Affair With Lawns," Brown, "Black Hands, Green
Gardens,"
(in
coursepack),
ASSIGNMENT: |
| September 28 | More HTML, Hyperlinks, Cutting and Pasting, Capturing Images, Backgrounds | READING:
ASSIGNMENT: |
| September 30 |
*Case
Studies of Artifact Analysis RPs: Rob Duewer, Alex Yasbek | READING:
Crawford, "The World in a Shopping Mall," (in coursepack), and Clarke,
"Tupperware," in Silverstone, Visions of Suburbia
ASSIGNMENT: |
| October 5 | Work Session: Critical Thinking; Artifact Analysis Critiques |
ASSIGNED: Hypertext
Links Assignment, due 10-12 ASSIGNMENT DUE: Draft of Project I Mounted |
| October 7 | Presentation/Discussion of Project I | ASSIGNMENT DUE: Project I |
| October 12 | Music of Suburbia Guest Speaker: D Snyder |
RECOMMENDED READING: Frith, "The Suburban
Sensibility in British Rock and Pop," and/or LeBeau, "The Worst of All
Possible Worlds," in Silverstone, Visions of Suburbia
ASSIGNED: Project II: Analysis of Representations of Suburbia |
| October 14 | *Literary Representations of Social Class in Suburbia RPs: Nick Wilson |
READING: Roth, Goodbye, Columbus (read
the title novelette only)
ASSIGNMENT: |
| October 19 | *Analyzing Images of the Suburban Family RPs: Alex Depetris, Dan Fridberg |
READING: Kozol, "Kind of People Who Make Good
Americans" (in coursepack) ASSIGNMENT: Life Magazine Images |
| October 21 |
*Suburbia and the American Dream on Film RPs: Mark Baxter, Anthony Rollins |
VIEWING: Levinson, Avalon
ASSIGNMENT: |
| October 26 |
*Journalism: The Suburbia Behind the Veil RPs: Ricky Brathwaite, Kate Rodrigue |
READING: Didion, "Some Dreamers of the Golden
Dream,"and Allen, "Boys: Hanging With the Spur Posse," (in coursepack)
ASSIGNMENT: |
| October 28 | Sociology: Domestic Suburbia, For
Better and For Worse Guest Speaker: Kelly Quinn |
READING: "Hanging Together: For Better and
For Worse" (#6 in Coursepack)
ASSIGNMENT: |
| November 2 | *Suburbia and the American Home on Film
RPs: Al Kafshi, Cris Maina |
VIEWING: Petrie, A Raisin in the Sun
ASSIGNMENT: |
| November 4 | *Racial Exclusion in Suburbia: How it Works
RPs: Dara Zycherman, Kevin Hawkins |
READING:
Jackson, "Federal Subsidy and the American
Dream" and Muller, excerpts from Contemporary Suburban America (in
coursepack);
Duncan and Duncan, "Deep Suburban Irony," in Visions of
Suburbia
ASSIGNMENT: |
| November 9 | Worksession: Race, Class, Gender, Family, Age, and Sexuality in Representations of Suburbia: Critiques | ASSIGNMENT DUE: Draft of Project II Mounted |
| November 11 | Presentation of Project II and Assignment of Project III | ASSIGNMENT
DUE: Project II, hyperlinked ASSIGNED: |
| November 16 | Fieldtrip to Greenbelt Webchat: Analysis of Greenbelt as Model Town, Due 11-23 |
READING: ASSIGNED: Project III: Imagining a Better American Community |
| November 18 | Ideas for Model Suburbs: "The City" (film) | READING:Langdon, Better Place to
Live (begin--preface, chs. 1-4)
ASSIGNMENT: |
| November 23 | Growing up in a Model Community (Guest Speaker, Mr. Lee Shields) | READING:
ASSIGNMENT: |
| November 25 | THANKSGIVING! | READING:
ASSIGNMENT: |
| November 30 | *Critiques of Post-1970s Suburbia RPs: Alan Lederman, Tracy Byrnes |
READING: Langdon, Better Place to Live
(read preface, chs 1-4); review ch. 7 of Bourgeois Utopias;
Oldenburg and Brissett, "The Third Place," and Baker, "McMansion Mania,"
(in coursepack)
ASSIGNMENT: |
| December 2 | *Imagining Better Communities RPs: Brian Detwiler, Gabe Cohen |
READING:Langdon, Better Place to Live
(read chs 5-10)
ASSIGNMENT: |
| December 7 | Worksession on
Project
III Teaching Theatre Student Feedback Survey |
READING:
ASSIGNMENT DUE: Draft of Project III Mounted |
| December 9 | Imagining Better Communities--Design
Ideas RPs: Kirsten Smith, Michael Bowen |
READING:
ASSIGNMENT: |
| December 14 | Final Forum on American Suburbia | READING:
ASSIGNMENT DUE: Project III, Revised |
| December 20 | Final Exam Portfolio | DUE: Portfolios will be graded at the close of the final exam period, 12:30 p.m. |