November 2006
James Elkins - Syllabi
many of this teacher's lectures on art, visual culture, and social issues are here, along with his syllabi
media teacher's home page, lots of resouces, links pages
"news and journalism, film, TV, media policy, media reform activism, philosophy and social theory, urban history, contemporary American politics--\perspective informed by media history, political economy and social and cultural theory."
Links to cultural studies syllabi
from the Cultural Studies L site, a listerv and a source of other resources as well
Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature: An Overview
longstanding and well maintained site by Internet humanities pioneer, George P. Landow. Organized by country and by conceptual approaches. Courses linked to. Useful internal search engine.
Geography courses with websites Valparaiso University
Geography courses, both present and past, with exercises, links, bibliography. Also see Urban Studies and American Indian Studies. Understanding place as cultural should inform both fiction and non-fiction film.
GEO 101 World Human Geography
very evocative discussion guides for students doing exercises in and thinking about a wide variety of physical and cultural spaces; writers can gets lots of ideas from this course and its notes
American Studies Electronic Crossroads
large American Studies web portal, organized into Communities | Curriculum | Technology & Learning | Reference & Research
RCCS: Course List of Cyberculture Studies
Site is a center of such studies; course list regularly updaged
Dr Daniel Chandler's UWA Home Page
extensive website of visual semiotician, with course outlines, online papers, and an interesting links page
Teaching Art in the Context of Everyday Life
a useful essay for all production teachers who want students to see the world around them anew
October 2006
David Gauntlett, Professor of Media and Communications, University of Westminster
homepage with many interesting links by prolific scholar
Dr. Anderson's Communication Gateway Page: Flow Conference "New Technologies" Panel @ 12:45pm
blog by a communications and media teacher with many online resources, links, lecture notes, etc.
lecturelinks of Mary Klages
extensive lecture notes on major cultural figures and critical concepts for course Modern Critical Thought
syllabus05: Visual Studies and Visual Culture
follow up on the links to his slide shows, with images from history of art; also links to online materials of interest
ideas site - craig stroupe
ideas explored to aid in teaching culture, web design, writing
barclaybarrios.com: course archive
"Archived course Web sites presented "as is," including student work good and bad, sections left un-updated, and typos." Attractive and useful pedagogical use of Internet in teaching.
July 2006
Cyberculture
Sunka Simon's course on Cyberculture at Swarthmore, spring 2005. Excellent resources, links. Attractive graphic design.
June 2006
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