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Week 1 (Jan 15 & 17) — Introduction and Overview/ Get a Domain

• Tuesday: Intro to Class
  • How to get a domain
• Picking cities and books (at least books)
  • establishing a subdomain for this class

Week 2 (Jan 22 & 24) — Read Part I of your book/ JS Timeline

• Tuesday: You’ll be working in small groups to build a timeline using events from your books
  • For Pietila and Sugrue, read the first of three sections. For Mike Davis and Kevin Kruse, read about the first 100 pages.
    • How do you distinguish between the details and the significant events in the city?
    • Generate a list of details that you think are important
• Thursday: Tool: JS Timeline — we will build timelines on Thursday based on the central events you pulled out of your books

Week 3 (Jan 29 & 31) — Finding Sources/ Part II of your books

• Tuesday: You will continue to work in groups on your books – what are central themes and what is the author trying to do. We will also look at the bibliographies to get a sense of how the authors’ use secondary sources. (Read Part II in the books that have parts and to somewhere between 200 and 300 in the books that don’t)
• Thursday: Tool: Zotero. Scholar.Google, Quest and other search options and
  • Every student should find one well regarded study of their city, preferably by a geographer, sociologist, or historian. This will be the basis of a comparison several digital projects and will anchor your critical literature review. You will need additional sources and should do a broad search to get a sense of what kinds of scholars do what kinds of studies of your city. You can also start to focus if you find too much. This might mean focusing on a particular time period (of publications), a topic, or a field of study/discipline.

Week 4 (Feb 5 & 7) — Part III / JS Storyline

• Tuesday: Read the rest of your book. 
  • We will focus on the major themes of this time period and how they are expressed differently in the three different cities
• Thursday: Turn in paper & JS Storyline
  • We will build a starter storyline for your city.  You need decennial population from when it is founded until today and some events that you might include. This is usually easy to find on wikipedia.

Week 5 (Feb 12 & 14) — DPLA & other sources for public domain images and sounds

• Tuesday: We will look for public domain images for the timeline and/or add events to the storyline.
• Thursday: Lecture on US urban history

Week 6 (Feb 19 & 21) — Social Explorer

• Tuesday: Continued from last week: locating your city in a broader urban history. Come to class with 2-3 articles that help you understand how your city fits into a broader history of urbanization in the US
• We will work on situating your city in that broader discussion and will use social explorer to map the city.

Week 7 (Feb 26 & 28) —

• Tuesday: Class discussion of book and group decision about what single or multiple things we want to work on Thursday.
• See list below (Digital Projects)

Week 8 — Spring Break

Week 9 (Mar 12 & 14) — Voyant tools

• Tuesday: Finding texts about the city
• Thursday: Workshop Voyant in class

Week 10 (Mar 19 & 21) — Art and Cities

• Readings to be determined
• Readings to be determined

Week 11 – (Mar 26 & 28) Storymaps (Knightlab vs. ArcGIS)

• Storymap JS in class (bring article or book about your city for content)
• Student presentations of a digital project in progress (I hope students who know ArcGIS and want to use it can show how it is different than Storymap JS)

Week 12 – (Apr 2 & 4)

• TBD
• Thursday: No class – AAG meetings

Week 13 – (Apr 9 & 11)

• TBD
• TBD

Week 14 — Presentations of Final Websites

• Peer feedback
• Peer feedback

Week 15 — Presentations of Final Websites

• Peer feedback
• Meet for final questions

Finals Week

• Submit Final Reflection paper and link to website no later than 2:30 on Tuesday, May 1.