A732: Schedule of Class Meetings
Spring Semester 2012 - Schedule of Classes
Unless otherwise noted, the class will meet in Wells Library, Room E174.
Please note: The information below is only the schedule of classes. For complete syllabus information (including course requirements, etc.) please visit: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=1000461
January 10/13:
Introduction, Discussion of Syllabus (course scope, requirements, etc.), Tour of the 6th floor.
Reading Assignment: Pearl Robinson, "Area Studies in Search of Africa," in David Szanton (ed.), The Politics of Knowledge: Area
Studies and the Disciplines (University of California Press, 2004).
Film: "Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness"
African Studies in the U.S.
Reading Assignment: “Africa,” in P. Altbach, International Book Publishing: an Encyclopedia, London, Chicago: Fitzroy, Dearborn, 1995: 366-415.
January 20:
African Studies in the U.S. cont.
Publishing in Africa
Introduction to the African Studies Collection website
January 27:
Discussion of updated syllabus
Publishing in Africa
African Studies Collection website cont.
African Studies web resources
Introduction to the Library of Congress classification
Discussion of Gretchen Walsh “Can we get there from here…”
February 3:
Online databases: Coverage, search strategies, links to full-text and Alert Services
Evaluation of web resources
Selected Recent Electronic Initiatives
In-class exercise: web based information versus information from online databases versus print resources -- discussion of results
February 10:
Introduction to Bibliographic Software: Zotero and Endnote
File Management
Chanitra Bishop, Emerging Technologies Librarian
February 17:
Meet in Fine Arts Library/Access to images
Break/walk back to Wells Library
Discussion of Course Projects/Topics
Compiling and Evaluating Bibliographies
Access to current research
Funding opportunities
February 24:
Kagan chapters 1, 2 [Kagan, Alfred, Reference Guide to Africa: A Bibliography of Sources, 2nd ed. Lanham, Md., & London: the Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2005]
Periodical Indexes and dissertations
Bibliographies -- national, trade, and country focused
General reference materials (guides, handbooks, encyclopedias, current events, etc.)
Visit Lilly Library
March 2:
Kagan, chapters 3, 14, 9, 17
Subject specific sources - Humanities: History / Biographical sources / Anthropology / Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) / Literature, Film, Theatre
March 9 (Can we change date to Wednesday, March 7?)
Primary sources
Archives -- Sarah Keil
Field Notes
Oral Tradition/History
March 16: NO CLASS -- SPRING BREAK
March 23:
Carrie: Conducting research in ethnomusicology (overview of research methods) and presentation of resources for music
Mpolo: Development studies (overview of research methods) and presentation of resources
Linguistics
March 30:
Kagan, chapters 10, 19
Kirk: Conducting research in political science (overview of research methods) and presentation of resources
Government publications -- Michael Courtney
Development Studies
April 6:
Kagan, chapter 8
Human Rights
Communications/Media
Newspapers
Social Media
April 13:
Open access (institutional repositories, Hathi Trust, Google Books, etc.) vs. fee based publishing
Break
Publishing in Journals
Samuel Obeng, Director of the African Studies Program, and Editor-in-chief of Africa Today
April 20: NO CLASS
April 27:
Presentations
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