Wintersemester
2004/2005
The Study of a Region: Culture and History
in Tennessee |
|
1 |
Oct
12 |
General
Introduction:
Course Outline; Course Basics |
| 2 |
Oct
19 |
Selected
bibliographies and webliographies; research techniques and evaluation
of results |
| 3 |
Oct
26 |
Tennessee:
Geography and History – A Brief Survey |
| 4 |
Nov
02 |
General
Overview: "Tennessee: Frontiers New and Old" |
| |
Nov
09 |
No class;
study project: Prominent Tennesseans |
| 5 |
Nov
16
|
A Survey
of Prominent Tennesseans: Andrew Jackson, Bessie Smith, Robert Penn
Warren, Alex Haley, Al Gore, jr., Wilma Rudolph |
| 6 |
Nov
23 |
"What
is Country Music?" |
| 7 |
Nov
30 |
A Case
Study (1): Davy Crockett |
| 8 |
Dec
07 |
Tennessee
Indian History: Creativity and Power |
| 9 |
Dec
14 |
Tennessee
and the Civil Rights Movement (1) |
| |
Dec
21 |
Christmas
Break |
| |
Dec
28 |
| |
Jan
04, 2005 |
| 10 |
Jan
11 |
Tennessee
and the Civil Rights Movement (2) |
| 11 |
Jan
18 |
A Case
Study (2): Science and Religion in Tennessee: The Scopes Trial |
| 12 |
Jan
25 |
Tennessee's
Impact on America's National Culture |
| 13 |
Feb
01 |
Summary
and Conclusion |