INFOSYS 182AC. American Cultures: Print, Literacy, and Power: To 1900
Mary Kay Duggan, Dept. of Music; School of Information, Fall 2006, 3 units, MWF 11, 123 Wheeler Hall. Office Hours: M-W 12-1; 202 Morrison Hall.  E-mail: mkduggan@sims.berkeley.edu. Telephone: 642-2682.

Required Texts Walter Ong.  Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word.  NY: Routledge, 1982. Reader available at Copy Central, 2560 Bancroft Way. Harriet Beecher Stowe.  Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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Date	Topic	Reading
Mon. Aug. 28	Introduction to the course and the field of the history of reading, printing, technology, and cultural studies
Wed. Aug. 30	The nature of oral and print societies; psychodynamics of orality.	Ong, Orality, especially Chap. 3.
Sept. 1	Writing, print and consciousness.	Ong, Orality, Chap. 3-5
Sept. 4	Holiday. Labor Day
Wed. Sept. 6	Class discussion: apply psychodynamics of Ong to oratory of Indians	Reader #1, Oratory of N. Amer. Indians
Sept. 8	Levine, levels of meaning in Br'er Rabbit; Slave tales, the trickster. Joel Chandler Harris's Uncle Remus . Tar Baby without dialect. Native American trickster tales (Wile E. Coyote)	Reader #2, Levine
Sept. 11	Literacy in America	Reader #3, Graff; #4 Greene
Sept. 13	Review for quiz: Ong, slave tales, literacy.
Sept. 15	Quiz
Sept. 18	Intro. to the Massachusetts colonists' attitude toward Native Americans.	Reader #5, Levine
Sept. 20	Intro. to the Native Americans' attitude toward colonists.	Reader #6, Mann
Sept. 22	Film: a seventeenth-century press (The Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp).	Handout in Class
Sept. 25	Pocahontas and John Smith, reality and fiction	Reader #7, Gleach
Sept. 27	Missionary goals and printing.  John Eliot. (Winship: The Cambridge Press, 1638-1692; 1945)	Reader #8, Eliot
Sept. 29	The captivity narrative, Eliot	Reader #9, Wyss
Oct. 2	Education in early America. History of American Education Web Project, Colonial Period, about 1600-1776; Early National Period, about 1776-1840, Common School Period, about 1840-1880. Colonial education, hornbook, New England Primer, 1805 edition, and another edition of 1807 , dame school, etc. discussion and pictures, title and a lesson. Poor Richard's Almanack, 1733, ( text in modern type), Farmer's Almanack, 1795.	Reader # 10-11
Oct. 4	Education, case studies	Reader #12, "To Learn Another Way." #13, Cornelius. #14, Sandos.
Oct. 6	Class discussion: education case studies
Oct. 9	Review
Oct. 11	QUIZ
Oct. 13	Uncle Tom's Cabin and spin-offs on the web. Also Library of Congress material on Uncle Tom's Cabin. Abolitionist newspapers, though not the National Era. Historic maps.	Uncle Tom's Cabin
Oct. 16	Publishing a bestseller. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.	Reader #15, Coultrap-McQuin
Oct. 18	Class discussion: characters in Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Slave narratives.	Uncle Tom's Cabin
Oct. 20	Information infrastructure. The System of Cities, 1790-1840.	Reader #16, Pred
Oct. 23	Information infrastructure shaping America, the colonies	Reader #17, Brown
Oct. 25	Information infrastructure shaping America, A case study: New York City, 1770-1810. The Industrial Age	Reader #18, White. Reader #19, John
Oct. 27	Review
Oct. 30	Quiz
Nov. 1	Newspapers and periodicals: Californios. Joaquin Murrietta	Reader #20, Almaguer. Reader #21, Pitt
Nov. 3	Web research for the Final Project. Notes on final project , project ideas. Newspapers, Indian.	Reader 21, Murphy
Nov. 6	Newspapers, Black, Chinese (Reader 23).� The image in print (engraving, woodcut, photograph, newspaper, magazine, sheet music, advertising, poster).	Reader 22, Hutton; Reader 24, Bunch.
Nov. 8	Edward S. Curtis, photographer of Native Americans. Case study.	Videos: Anne Makepeace, "Coming to Light: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indians" (2000) "In the Land of the War Canoes" (1914)
Nov. 10	Class discussion: the validity of Curtis's photographs
Nov. 13	Review. Turn in final project topic and abstract.
Nov. 15	QUIZ
Nov. 17	Traditional Chinese culture	Reader #26, Chen Na
Nov. 20	Introduction: California and print; the Chinese in California	Reader #27, Takaki
Nov. 22	The Chinese in America	Reader #27, Takaki
Nov. 24	Holiday - Thanksgiving
Nov. 27	The American image of the Chinese and politics	Reader #28, Miller
Nov. 29	A missionary to the Chinese speaks for them in print: Otis Gibson.	Reader #29, Gibson
Dec. 1	Class discussion.
Dec. 4	Review
Dec. 6	QUIZ
Dec.8	Student presentations summarizing final projects
Dec. 11	Final paper due. Either turn it in in class on Friday Dec. 8th, or slide it under my office door, Room 202 Morrison Hall, on Dec. 11th before 5PM.
Dec. 16	Student presentations at final slot, 12:30-1:30.