School of Information Management & Systems.   Fall 2003.
Infosys 142: Access to American Cultural Heritages.   M. Buckland.
Fall 2003 Class schedule.   Subject to change!
Will resemble but not exactly follow the timetable on readings page and Fall 2000 schedule. Underline indicates link. Handouts in italics. Material not online will be in a Big Black Binder on MOFFITT Informal Reserve.
Dec 3: Last day of class. Deadline for finished Portfolio.
Dec 3: Handout: So what is cultural heritage?
Dec 2: Assignment 12: American? due.
Dec 1: NO CLASS, TEST converted to two simple questions (See assignment 12).
Nov 26: Ethnic identity and place: Masada.
Nov 26: Rallies: Triumph of the Will, Nuremburg, 1934. MRC Video C/262; also 999:25.
Nov 26: Speeches: Winston Churchill 1941. MRC Video C/1466:2 & accompanying text.
Nov 26: Portfolio: Draft part 6: Interesting and usual.
Nov 24: Portfolio: Full-length draft: parts 2, 3, 4 & 7.
Nov 19: Language and culture.
Nov 19: Assignment 9: Third exhibit / museum visit due.
Nov 17: Assignment 11: Interview due.
Nov 17: Read Eugenics and the Nazis -- the California connection
Nov 12: Portfolio: Draft of part 4: Sources.
Nov 12: Read Lingo Jingo: English-Only and the New Nativism by Geoffrey Nunberg
Nov 10: Video: Stuart Hall: Representation and the Media. MOFF MRC Video/C4654.
Nov 5: Test on everything to date, with an emphasis on what has been covered since the last test.
Nov 3: Portfolio: Second progress report.
Oct 29: Handout: Two pages from article on multicultural textbook.
Oct 29: Guest: Linda-Cathryn Muehlinghaus: Culture, textbooks, education.
Oct 29: Read New year... Iraqi schools, U.S. revised textbooks.
Week of Oct 27: Sign up for special office hours.
Oct 27: Video "Degenerate Art", Media Center VIDEO/C 3330.
Oct 27: Assignment 10: Social Aspects of Naming due.
Oct 22: Handout: Bibliographic style.
Oct 22: Portfolio: First progress report.
Oct 20: No class.
Oct 15: Portfolio: One-page outline of proposed topic.
Oct 15: Assignment 8: Searching Through the Library due.
Oct 13: Guest: Lincoln Cushing: Cuban political posters.
Oct 13: Either read the description of the Berkeley Art Center exhibit "One Struggle, Two Communities: Late 20th Century Political Posters of Havana, Cuba and the San Francisco Bay Area" www.berkeleyartcenter.org/pages/exhibitions.html or visit the exhibit Wed-Sun Noon-5 p.m. at 1275 Walnut St, Berkeley - or both.
Oct 10, 4:00 p.m.: Recommended: Guest Lincoln Cushing on KPFA radio 94.1 FM.
Oct 8: Guest: Ira Jacknis, Hearst Museum.
Oct 8: Assignment 7: Subject access in the Pathfinder Catalog due.
Oct 6: Guest: Corliss Lee, American Cultures Librarian: Resources for Portfolio. Handout.
Oct 6: Assignment 6: Museum Collections due.
Oct 1: Assignment 5: Using the Pathfinder Catalog due.
Oct 1: Handout: Book burning, book banning and cultural relativism
Sep 29: Test on everything to date. Past tests.
Sep 29: Read: Culture from Keywords : a vocabulary of culture and society by R. Williams on e-reserve eres.berkeley.edu
Sep 29: Why is access to American cultural heritages worth studying?
Sep 29: Look at Library's Calheritage Black Panther Struggle site. Optional: Barillari Black Panther site.
Sep 24: Video: Princess Diana of Wales' funeral: rituals, symbols and meanings in culture
Sep 24: Handout: Notes on Culture
Sep 24: Read: Challenged and Banned Books.
Sep 24: Heritage libraries: 4 readings on e-reserve eres.berkeley.edu.
Sep 22: Handout: Why is the topic of access to American cultural heritages worth studying?
Sep 22: Assignment 4. Finding "Culture" due.
Sep 17: Libraries.
Sep 17: Read Club for Caucasians stirs up Oakley High school.
Sep 15: Assignment 3. Cultural groups in the USA due.
Sep 10: Video: Darwin's revolution. Media Res. Ctr VIDEO/C 997:8.
Sept 10: Reading: Cultural rituals help American Japanese hang onto their roots.   Recommended sequel: "Japanese American community looks to its youth" (SF Chron. 9/11/00) in Binder.
Sept 8: Assignment 2: Photography and Black Culture due.
Sept 8: Constructing meaning. Michener, World is my home, 402-411. (Binder)
Sept 3: Video: Separate Lives; Broken Dreams. Chinese Exclusion Act. Media Ctr VIDEO/C 6614
Sept 3: Read California minorities become majority - sfgate.com 8/30/00.
Sept 3: Assignment 1: Me and 142 due.
Sept 1: Labor Day - No class.
Aug 27: Handout: Individual Portfolio topics..
Aug 27: Handout: Some topics....
Aug 25: Introduction. Course handout.