Cultures and Collections:
From Cabinets of Curiosity to Cyberspace
COURSE SCHEDULE

CLASS #

DATE

READINGS

TASKS

Tasks and readings are to be completed before the beginning of class
on the day they are assigned

HTML Construction Resources
WEEK 1
Class # 1
Tuesday
August 28, 2001
Course Introduction

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BSCW Manual
WEEK 2
Class # 2
Tuesday
September 4, 2001

Mullaney, Steve "Strange Things, Gross Terms, Curious Customs: The Rehearsal of Cultures in the Late Renaissance." (reserve)

Defert, Daniel "The Collection of the World: Accounts of Voyages from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries" (reserve)

Chapman, William Ryan “Arranging Ethnology, A. H. L. F. Pitt Rivers and the Typological Tradition” (reserve)

Jacknis, Ira "Franz Boas and Exhibits" (In G. Stocking ed., Objects and Others -- on reserve)

Boas, Franz "Some Principles of Museum Administration" (reserve)
Museum Visit 1: Joslyn Museum
Web Construction
Task 1
WEEK 3
Class # 3
Tuesday
September 11, 2001
Hein, Hilde The Museum In Transtion: (1 - 50)
Web Museum Critique 1
Web Construction
Task 2
WEEK 4
Class # 4
Tuesday
September 18, 2001
Hein, Hilde The Museum In Transtion: (51 - 107)
Web Museum Critique 2
Web Construction
Task 3
WEEK 5
Class # 5
Tuesday
September 25, 2001
Hein, Hilde The Museum In Transtion: (108 - 151)
Museum Visit 2: Choice
Web Construction
Task 4
WEEK 6
Class # 6
Tuesday
October 2, 2001
Ames, Michael Cannibal Tours and Glass Boxes: (1 - 58)
Web Museum Critique 3
Web Construction
Task 5
WEEK 7
Class # 7
Tuesday
October 9, 2001
Midterm Exam
Midterm Requirements

Evaluate Your
Class Participation
WEEK 8
Class # 8
Tuesday
October 23, 2001
Ames, Michael Cannibal Tours and Glass Boxes: (59 - 97)

Integrate your museum visit with your discussion of Michael Ames' work for the class discussion


Midterm Course Evaluation Museum Visit 3: Choice
Web Construction
Task 6
WEEK 9
Class # 9
Tuesday
October 30, 2001
Ames, Michael Cannibal Tours and Glass Boxes: (98 - 168)
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Web Construction
Task 7
WEEK 10
Class # 10
Tuesday
November 6, 2001
Class Critique of Museums 2

Web Museum: Find a Web Site which might be contested as a "museum" and defend its status as a Virtual Museum during our class discussion
Web Museum 4
Web Construction
Task 8
WEEK 11
Class # 11
Tuesday
November 13, 2001
----, The War on Culture (reserve B39)

Linenthal, Between History and Memory (reserve F28)

Matthews, Fine Art or Foul? (reserve F88)

Vance, Misunderstaning Obscenity (reserve A23)

----, Vice Cops Bust Mapplethorp Show (reserve G66)
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Web Construction
Task 9
WEEK 12
Class # 12
Tuesday
November 20, 2001
Museum Compensation Class
No Class Meeting
WEEK 13
Class # 13
Tuesday
November 27, 2001
NAGPRA

Fuller, Nancy "The Museum as a Vehicle for Community Empowerment: the Ak-Chin Indian Community Ecomuseum Project" (In Museums and Communities -- reserve)

Integrate your discussion of Fuller's article with a Web Museum you have found which you consider to be "at the service of" a specific community. Consider how museum legislation such as NAGPRA protects certain communities and how these types of legislative initiatives might enhance museums. Balance this against the question of "free speech" considered in the previous class.
Web Museum 6
Web Construction
Task 10
WEEK 14
Class # 14
Tuesday
December 4, 2001
Student Museums Presentations
and Critiques
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FINAL EXAM
Final Exam
Thursday
December 13, 2001
Final Museum Due
3:00 PM Deadline
Guidelines for Final Museum



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