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| What is a Keyword Project? |
As you plan an assignment that uses Keywords for American Cultural Studies or this website, you may find it helpful to be able to explain to students what a keyword is, and to give them some guidance on how to approach a keyword project. Reading and discussing the introduction to the volume may help, but we also want to provide some other suggestions here. Feel free to use or adapt all or part of this description in your assignments. In what follows, we address questions of content, process, form, and audience.
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| Keyword Projects |
Glenn Hendler, American Studies Program, Fordham University:
This project is a group assignment for the sophomore-level American Studies introductory course offered in Spring 2008, "Major Developments in American Culture." Alongside readings in U.S. literature and history, small groups of students trace different threads first by studying the keyword published in Keywords for American Cultural Studies, then by hosting an online discussion of the keyword as it unfolds throughout the course readings. Students finally compose and collectively submit a new keyword essay.
Hendler Collaboratory Assignment.pdf
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| Keyword Syllabi |
Glenn Hendler, American Studies Program, Fordham
University: This syllabus is a sophomore-level American
Studies introductory course, "Major Developments
in American Culture." Alongside readings in U.S.
literature and history, small groups of students trace
different threads first by studying the keyword published
in Keywords for American Cultural Studies, then by hosting
an online discussion of the keyword as it unfolds throughout
the course readings. Students finally compose and collectively
submit a new keyword essay. The keywords that are covered
are: America, Asian, border, colonial, class, coolie,
empire, ethnicity, immigration, Indian, market, marriage,
mestizo/a, nation, naturalization, orientalism, public,
religion, secular, slavery, west, white.
Syllabus: Major
Developments in American Culture
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Steven Tobias, Literature, University of Washington:
Steve Tobias taught two literature courses structured
around Keywords for American Cultural Studies.
Both courses and their collaboratories are accessible
on this website. American Fiction uses Keywords for American
Cultural Studies. 18th c. English Lit uses the Keywords
Collaboratory alongside Raymond Williams's entries in
Keywords: A Vocabulary for Culture and Society. The syllabus
for this course is featured below as an example of how
instructors might use the collaboratory site with another
keywords-based resource.
Syllabus: English
Literature - Later Eighteenth Century
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Daniel HoSang, Ethnic Studies, University of Oregon:
This senior-level seminar had two objectives: (1)
Expanding the students’ theoretical fluency and vocabulary
within Ethnic Studies and American studies, especially
with the concepts of discourse and representation; and
(2) Preparing the students to write senior thesis projects—20-30
page independent research efforts—for the next (spring)
term. Three entries from Keywords for American Cultural
Studies were assigned for six of the ten weeks that
the class met. For each week, the students wrote response
essays discussing how the three words related to each
other and how they were addressed in one of two additional
articles assigned. The students also selected three to
four keywords that were central to their own research
project, explaining their choice in a thesis prospectus
submitted at the end of the term.
Syllabus: Theories
of Race and Ethnicity
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at keywords@u.washington.edu.
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