The City in American History, Part II:

100.357 The Reality of the City in American History (3)

Mondays 2-4 p.m.
Krieger 309 (lab)

This course consists of reading, research and writing about the history of Baltimore. There are two texts and sample document packets that will be used as starting points for the development of a multi-media, web-based presentation in the last three weeks of class. You will be required to gain a working knowledge of simple web-based authoring tools and you will be expected to

• develop discussion notes for each of the reading assignments prior to class which are to be EMAILED to the instructor in advance of the class discussion (32% of the grade)
• write a final paper focusing on a topic in Baltimore History that combines historical analysis with supporting documents that could in turn be used in teaching about the history of the city with your paper serving as an historical introduction. The paper is to be in electronic form, web-based, and will constitute 58% of the final grade
• present your paper to the seminar during a fifteen minute time slot (assigned by lot) in the last three weeks of class. The presentation will be judged by the instructor and your classmates on a scale of one to ten points for the the remaining 10% of the grade

The first two weeks of the course will be devoted to working with the Web and web-authoring tools. The first discussion notes will be due February 10 when the topic will be the geography and the origins of the city. Paper proposals are due on Friday, March 14. Presentation of papers begin on April 21. Final versions of papers are due May 12.

Schedule

The schedule will be available on line beginning January 29 at the following URL: http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/ecp/10/237/html/0000.html

Class Roster

Office Hours: Mondays 12:30-1:30 p.m., and by appointment
Office: 304 Gilman Hall
Phone: (w) 410-974-3869; (h) 410-467-6137
EMAIL Address: edpapen@erols.com

rev 1/28/97