School of Information Management & Systems.   Spring 1997.   M. Buckland.
Infosys 142: Access to American Cultural Heritages.
Class schedule.   Subject to change!   Underline indicates weblink. Handouts in italics

Dec 9: Deadline for balance of the Portfolio.
Dec 4: Last in-class exam. No other Final.
Dec 2: Handout: Notes on Stuart Hall video and readings.
Dec 2: Handout: Overview of Infosys 142.
Nov 25: First deadline for Assign 5: Portfolio: At least parts 2, 3, 6, & 7.
Nov 25: Assign 7: Interview due.
Nov 20: Read: Hall, Stuart. What is this "black" in black popular culture? (Rethinking Race) Social Justice v20, n1-2 (Spring-Summer, 1993):104 (11 pages). Text available online in MELVYL MAGS
Nov 18: Video: Representation & the media MOFF Media Center VIDEO/C 4654.
Nov 13: Handout: S. F. Fishkin. The multiculturalism of "traditional" culture
Nov 13: Handout: T. S. Hamerow. Disturbing echoes of old arguments about ethnic experience.
Nov 13: Handout: So what is cultural heritage?
Nov 11: Second progress report on Assign 5 Portfolio.
Nov 11: Assign 6: Other exhibit visit due.
Nov 6: Office hours instead of class. Location TBA.
Nov 4: Second in-class exam.
Oct 28: Read Mulcahy "The public interest in public art" MOFF RES 632.
Oct 26: Video: Degenerate art. Media center Video 3330.
Oct 21: Cultural property.
Oct 9: Guest: Ira Jacknis, Hearst Museum.
Oct 9: Assign 4: Hearst Museum before Oct 9.
Oct 7: Guest: Geoffrey Nunberg, Stanford & Xerox: Language and cultural identity.
Oct 7: Read Geoffrey Nunberg's   Lingo jingo before class.
Oct 7: Draft definition of Portfolio topic due.
Oct 2: Guest: Lin Everstz-Eriksson: K-12 history textbook controversy.
Sept 30: First in-class exam.
Sept 25: Assignment 3: Social aspects of naming due.
Sept 23: Handout: Book of Bible is translated into Gullah.
Sept 23: Handout: The battle of the books by D.L.Kirp. 2 pages.
Sept 23: Exercise 6: MELVYL's other databases due.
Sept 18: Exercise 5: Subject access in the MELVYL catalog.
Sept 18: Reading: Roszak Cult of information Chap. 5.
Sept 18: Exercise 4: Me and 142 due.
Sept 18: Video: James Burke on theory of evolution, Nazism, capitalism and communism.
Sept 16: Assignment 2: Cultural groups in the USA due -- or ASAP.
Sept 16: Handout: Access to information.
Sept 11: Handout: Notes on "Culture".
Sept 11: Exercise. 3: World Wide Web and Netscape due.
Sept 9: Video clip: Funeral ritual.
Sept 9: Handout: Japanese historian wins significant censorship ruling.
Sept 4: Video "Separate lives; broken dreams: The saga of Chinese immigration."
Sept 4: Assignment 1: Finding "Culture" due.
Sept 4: Exercise 2: E-mail due - or ASAP.
Sept 4: Exercise 1: Using the MELVYL catalog due.
Sept 2: Handout Why is the topic ... worth studying?
Aug 28: Handout Provisional program and typical readings
Aug 26: Introduction. Course handout.