Class Schedule
DateTopic Reading
Assignments
Aug 22 Introduction: Communication in/as History
Critical Research Agendas
Aug 29 What is History? Nerone, "The future of communication history
Carr, "The Historian and His Facts
Bloch, "History, Men, and Time (Pages 24-5 included)
Sep 5 History as method

Affirmative Axioms for Question-Making
Marius and Page, All
Tankel,"The Impact of The Jazz Singer on the conversion of sound"
Sep 12 GROUP MEETING TIME
Sep 19 Critical Research and Theory Berry, Radical Mass Media Criticism: An Introduction
Theobald, The Intellectual Tradition of Radical Mass Media Criticism: A Framework
Sep 26 What is History Now? Cannadine (All: emphasis on Cultural History chapter)
Oct 3 Habermas and the Public Sphere: History as Communication Analysis Habermas, Institutions of the Public Sphere
Kellner, Habermas, the public sphere, and democracy: A critical intervention
Oct 10Omnibus Lecture: Carl Bernstein
Oct 17 Frankfurt School: Communication theory in context Adorno and Horkheimer, The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Deception (excerpt)
Adorno, Sociology of Knowledge and Its Consciousness
Marcuse, Some Social Implications of Modern Technology
Oct 24 Logic and Argument in Historiography Conclusion from David Hackett Fisher, Historians' Fallacies
J.H. Hexter, "The rhetoric of history" (from Doing History)

Research Paper Progress Reports

Oct 31 Presentations on Research:
Update on group projects
No readings
Nov 7 History and Revisionism Louise Benjamin, In Search of Sarnoff's Music Box Memo
Louise Benjamin, Nally's Reply
Nov 14 History and the Media
Class Screening: World at War
excerpt from Colin McArthur, Television and History (British Film Institute Monograph 8, 1978)
Nov 28 Research Presentations: Projects
Dec 5 Research Presentations: Projects
Wednesday
Dec. 12,
6:15-8:15 p.m.
Final Discussion

Fall 2007

Date(s) Calendar Item
Aug. 20 Classes Begin
Aug. 20-24 Late Registration and Drop/Add
Aug. 24 Final Payment Deadline (late registrants)
Aug. 26 Last Day for Full Refund (for full-term classes)
Aug. 24 Weekend Classes Begin
Aug. 31 Labor Day Holiday Recess Begins at 4:30 p.m.
Sept. 4 Classes Resume
Sept. 17 Pass/Not Pass and Audit-to-Credit Deadline
Oct. 8-9 Fall Recess
Oct. 10 Classes Resume
Oct. 26 Credit-to-Audit Deadline
Oct. 26 Last Day to Withdraw from Classes (for full-term classes)
Nov. 20 Thanksgiving Recess Begins after Last Class
Nov. 26 Classes Resume
Dec. 10-16 Last Week of Classes and Final Exams
Dec. 16 Classes and Final Exams End
Holidays and Observances
Sep 3Labor Day
Sep 13Rosh Hashana (Jewish)
Sep 13Ramadan begins (Islamic)
Sep 22Yom Kippur (Jewish)
Sep 23Autumnal equinox
Sep 27First day of Sukkot (Jewish)
Oct 3Last day of Sukkot (Jewish)
Oct 4Shmini Atzeret/Simchat Torah (Jewish)
Oct 8Lailat Ul Qadr (Islamic)
Oct 8Columbus Day
Oct 9Leif Erikson Day
Oct 13Eid-al-Fitr (Islamic)
Oct 31Halloween
  
Nov 1All Saints Day
Nov 4Daylight Saving Time ends
Nov 11Veterans Day
Nov 12'Veterans Day' observed
Nov 22Thanksgiving Day
Dec 2First Sunday Advent (Christian)
Dec 5First day of Chanukah (Jewish)
Dec 12Last day of Chanukah (Jewish)
Dec 20Eid-al-Adha (Islamic)
Dec 22Winter solstice
Dec 25Christmas Day (Christian)
Dec 26Kwanzaa (until Jan 1)
Dec 31New Year's Eve

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