assignments are listed on the day assigned, not the day due
class policies found under “handouts”
Learning Goals:
To understand notions of method and methodology
To recognize accounts of methodology in academic writing
To recognize adaptations of methodology in various disciplines and study situations
To learn how to compile an annotated bibliography
To experiment with methodology design
To design a methodologically conscientious research project
To write about methodology and research academically
History as Explanation: Hip-Hop Culture & Global Economics
CLASS 1: FR 09/01
in class: Introductions; signing of contracts
assigned viewing due by 9/08: watch the video Bling: A Planet Rock (2007) (3 copies at JJ library) ) You only need to watch the first hour and seven minutes; if you want to answer the extra-credit questions, you need to watch from 1hr:13 until the end. You may want to look at the questions before doing the viewing as doing so will make answering those questions easier.
assigned writing due 9/08 through blackboard by class time: do short answer questions (questions available by clicking HW1)
Your answers to these questions will serve as the basis for your next assignment
CLASS 2: FR 09/08
in-class: introductions to claim/evidence/warrant, explanation of the resource curse
assigned reading due 9/15 through blackboard by class time: introduction to Claim/Evidence/Warrant; (link forthcoming)
assigned writing due 9/15 by blackboard by class time:: hw 2 questions using claim/evidence/warrant on Bling (these questions require having a firm grasp of the claim/evidence/warrant reading)
CLASS 3: FR 09/15
assigned viewing due 10/06 by blackboard by class time: First Two episodes (“Out of Eden” and “Conquest”): National Geographic: Guns, Germs and Steel This video is available from netflix instant viewing (which requires a membership, but free trials are available) as well as available for viewing at the college; see here
assigned reading: Matthew Restall, Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest (Oxford, 2004) , pp. 44-51 (on Blackboard)
assigned writing due 10/06 through blackboard by class: questions Diamond, Restal, and the Conquest (hw 3)
CLASS 4: FR 10/06
Assigned reading due 10/13: (on-line) excerpt from George Fredrickson, Racism: A Short History (Princeton, rev. ed. 2015) (here). Be sure to read this short (8 page) except on-line, as I’ve embedded hints and definitions of words that you might not know. The reading is straightforward, but it is subtle and so will require close attention to answer the questions (see below)
assigned writing due through blackboard 10/13 by class time: questions on Fredrickson (hw 4)
CLASS 5: FR 10/13
In class: start essay
assigned writing due 10/20 through blackboard by class time: essay on Fedrickson (hw 5)
CLASS 6: FR 10/20
In class: introduction to the modelling of statistical questions and the particulars of the data sets used in the assessment of potentially unjustified racial disparities in Terry stops.
Assigned reading due 10/27: (on-line) expert witness reports by (1) Fagan and (2) Smith & Purtell
assigned writing due 10/27 through blackboard by class time as an ms-word file: hw 6
CLASS 7: FR 10/27
assigned viewing due 11/02: first 20 minutes of the 1991 film Black Robe (extra-credit quiz at start of class on this viewing; you will be watching the rest of the film for the upcoming paper. But getting started on the film now will save you time then AND provide some visual context for the reading. Often, having a visual sense of a setting can help you process a reading about a very different time and place)
Assigned reading due 11/03: (blackboard) Alan Taylor, “Canada and Iroquoia”
Assigned writing due 11/03 through blackboard by class time as an ms-word file:
hw7
CLASS 8: FR 11/03
assigned viewing due 11/10: the 1991 film Black Robe
assigned writing due 11/10 through blackboard by class time: hw 8 (Blackrobe Essay
CLASS 9: FR 11/10
assigned reading: none so that you have time to write the essay
assigned writing due 11/17 through blackboard by start of classtime: (hw 9): training in library finding aids. Prepare for quiz as explained in hw 9.
CLASS 10: FR 11/17
IN CLASS QUIZ AT START OF CLASS
In-class: Introduction to library finding aids
assigned writing due 12/01 through blackboard by class time: (hw 10)
EXTRA CREDIT ASSIGNMENT DUE 12/01 POSTED HERE
NO CLASS ON TUESDAY 11/21
CLASS 10: FR 12/01
assigned writing due 12/08 through blackboard by start of class: “two-questions that have been answered in your chosen topic” research report (hw 11 link forthcoming)
CLASS 11: FR 12/08
Discussion of research
