Tu-Th 2:25-3:40 PM Marsh B 12

Table of Contents for this Site/Cluster:

• About This Course
• Required Texts
• Weekly Schedule
• Grading And Assessment
• Types of Assignments
• Important Electronic Sites
• Electronic Resources to be used in this course
• Extra Credit or paid work

Texts Include:

• Benjamin, Jules R. A Student's Guide to History. Bedford, ISBN 0-312-144977-8
• Glossbrenner, Alfred and Emily. Search Engines for the World Wide Web. Peachpit Press, Visual Quickstart Guide. ISBN 0-201-69642-8.
• Hacker, Diana. A Pocket Style Manual
• Howe, Barbara J. Careers for Students of History 1989: American Historical Assocation and the National Council on Public History
• Trinkle, Dennis A. Writing, Teaching, and Researching History in the Electronic Age. M.E. Sharpe, ISBN 0-7656-0179-6
• Wilson, Norman J. History in Crisis? Prentice-Hall, ISBN 0-13-903205-3
  

There are also many shorter pieces on reserve, check the schedule

Important Electronic Sites:

• The Journal of the Association for History and Computing <http://mcel.pacificu.edu/JAHC/JAHCindex.HTM> We will be reading several articles in the JAHC, please click through it! The journal has recently received a substantial grant and I am seeking additional students who wish to work on it. Such students must sign up for History 255.
• The Pacific University History department web site: <http://mcel.pacificu.edu/history/toplevel.html> Your senior thesis, if "A" quality, will eventually be published here. Please click through the site.
• An on-line style manual for Chicago style: http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/rd/ctchicago.html

Electronic Resources:

This course depends upon an electronic environment. If you are reading this syllabus in hard copy, the electronic version can be found on the WWW at: <http://mcel.pacificu.edu/mcel/barlow/Fall99/h490/syl490.html> For interactive functions such as a class bulletin board, chat room, email functions and a space for student work we will use a Web-ct environment. To log in to our web-ct environment:

• Go to: <http://webct.pacificu.edu:8900/webct/public/show_courses>
• Scroll down until you find this course listed. Click on that anchor.
• log in, using as your password your first name as listed in your official enrollment data. You may change your password as you wish, once you are logged in, but keep a record of it! I will let you know IN CLASS when we are ready to use this application. Until then, please do not worry about it
• For help on Web-ct go to: <http://nellie.pacificu.edu/uis/help/helpsheets/webct.html>
• We will model the web and the web-ct environment in class the first week, but it will be helpful if you have already played with these facilities to some extent.
• University Information Services will be offering a WEB-CT workshop before too long, and it would be to your advantage to take the course. I believe that preregistration is required. I urge you to take that class, this is a very powerful environment which will greatly facilitate class learning and interaction, but it does have a significant learning curve. Email HELP to make a reservation for this class.

PALACE ENVIRONMENT: We may also do some of our communication within a graphical environment called "The Asian Studies Palace." To use the palace environment you must download a piece of software from THEPALACE.COM. Go to: <http://www.thepalace.com/> and click on Free Palace Software. Once you are familiar with the Palace Structure, visit our "Asian Studies Palace" at <dao.mcel.pacificu.edu> This location must be accessed through the Palace environment, it is not a web page. I will tell you which rooms we will use for particular meetings, via email.

Extra credit for helping with the computer side of the course: If you want to get deeply involved in the computer work for the course, I welcome your assistance. You could sign up for History 255, History Web Lab, which will meet in Strain 220 Wednesday from 12-12:50, and in a second section which will be Tuesdays at 1-1:50. The second section is intended to suit the schedules of those who cannot make the first section. In the course this term we will learn to use Adobe Cyberstudio, the best of the MAC platform web editor/site manager programs. Familiarity with this program will be necessary for working in the MCEL , on the JAHC, or in maintaining the History Dept. web site. This is a one-hour course but I could provide additional credit for additional work. We also have work study money for those who might want to work on a for-pay basis and are entitled to work study. I have some money available to pay cash to those not eligible for work study, but who wish to make a serious commitment to learning the emerging electronic aspects of doing history studies.

 Important Electronic Resources

• JAHC: http://mcel.pacificu.edu/jahc/jahcindex.htm
• History department web pages: http://mcel.pacificu.edu/history/dept/toplevel.html

Office Hours:

• MWF 11-12 Marsh Hall 336 (third floor, opposite end of the building from the elevator)
• Tuesday-Thursday 10-11 in the MCEL, basement of the UC near the door to the vollyball court.
• And by appointment: email me at barlowj@pacificu.edu