public marks

PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags identity & courses

26 November 2006

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."

21 November 2006

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

20 November 2006

Conversations with Dina

post on how students did visual ethnography using Flickr and the tags people put there

Visual Culture and the Contemporary City

extensive course lectures with special attention to Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin's concepts, especially Benjamin on the flaneur.

18 November 2006

Dave Harris and Colleagues

large collection of work, lectures, course materials in media studies, leisure studies, sociology

06 November 2006

Syllabus - SOC 4391 - Social Theory

value of the course outline is that there are links to chapters of most classics in social theory, reproduced as full text chapters and extensive excerpts

Sensing Place: Photography as Inquiry

Course outline and reading list for fine arts course on landscape photography; excellent bibliography; will require a trip to the photography books section of a fine arts library

31 October 2006

16 October 2006

vitia

well written, much about pedagogy and digital culture, blogging

06 October 2006

Composing Cyberspace, by Rich Holeton

website for book, with sections on knowledge, community, and identity; does not have text of book but many useful questions, links, and resources

02 October 2006

course outline on social construction of space

understanding this topic is crucial for folks in the visual arts, especially documentarians