CAUP 498-598 Course description
From UANotebook
Invitation
Summer quarter is an opportunity for faculty to teach extra courses, or for PhD students to teach their own courses--whether part of the regular curriculum, or something else that might be of interest to undergraduates or students from different departments and/or non-matriculated students. Please give it some thought, and if you would like to teach a course this summer, let me know the following:
1) How would you describe it (particularly if it's a special topics 498 or 598 course)?
2) Who would be interested in taking it--is it aimed towards undergraduates, graduates--from which departments--non-matriculated or graduate non-matriculated students?
3) How many credits?
5) Would you want to offer it for the full term, or A or B term?
We are putting a budget together now, so please get a brief proposal to me by Nov. 21 if this is something you would like to do.
Thanks, Sue
Proposal
The Urban Archives: Archiving Seattle
The Urban Archives invites all students who have any variety of interests such as communication, archival/historical research, architecture, urban planning, art, photography, and mapping to participate in field research this summer.
Locally, the Urban Archives project documents Seattle's public spaces through a variety of media and methodologies in order to understand how different people, producers and viewers alike, communicate in public spaces as well as how spaces themselves communicate to people. The project studies texts such as graffiti, architecture & design, signs & posters, and public furniture & public art. Data collection involves field observation, photography, interviews, archival media research, and historical research.
Students can earn up to 5 credits for the full quarter or 3 credits for either A or B term. Students and instructors will work as a team in order to document and analyze one particular field site TBA (i.e. Georgetown, Aurora Ave). Individual tasks will vary based on the interest of the student; expectations will vary based on the number of credits.
The course will be structure as weekly meetings and as independent research. During the first two weeks of the quarter, we will discuss a few readings that relate to the project as well as methods that we will use. The following three to four weeks will involve research and fieldwork. We will meet two or three times as a group in the field; the remainder of the work will be conducted independently or in informal groups according to students' schedules. During the final 2-3 weeks of the quarter we will again convene in the classroom/lab in order to organize, annotate, and analyze our data. We will begin tying together individual pieces into a more coherent whole.
Final products will vary by students' individual tasks; they may include historical/biographical sketches, cohesive collections of original photographs (or other media) annotated with proper metadata, maps & charts in either digital or paper format, annotated references to archival photographs and documents, annotated bibliographies, and reflective, analytical papers about the texts studied and/or the context of the site.
The final report, consisting of the aggregated work of all team members, will be compiled by the project leaders and posted to the Urban Archives web site for interested students, researchers, and the general public to access. Additionally, all collected original media will be entered into the project's institutional repository --housed at the UW Library's Digital Collections (http://urbanarchives.org/UA_web/UAsearchMain.php)-- and will become part of a larger collective body of work on public spaces.
Previous student projects can be viewed at http://urbanarchives.org/projects.html. The Urban Archives resides on the web at http://urbanarchives.org/
