Course Syllabus for IRLS 588 Information Environments from Hispanic and Native American Perspectives
Fall 2005
Instructors:
Jana Bradley
Patricia Tarin
Course Name, Number and Prerequisites
Information Environments from Hispanic and Native American Perspectives
IRLS588
No prerequisites are required.
Course Description
This course explores the interconnectedness of information forms and environments (libraries, museums, archives, electronic, mass media, etc.) from different theoretical and cultural perspectives. Students will study standard fundamental frameworks of each of these environments, how they resonate within Native American or Hispanic cultural perspectives, and how information environments can more authentically reflect the Hispanic or Native American experience. Professionals from these information environments will serve as guest lecturers to provide in-depth knowledge of their fields within these environments and these cultures.
This course addresses the following school-wide learning objectives:
Specific Course objectives are as follows:
Required Course Materials
Most materials will be provided online directly from the Web or through password protected electronic reserves at the University Library.
Course Requirements
The course requirements are:
1. A five minute individual presentation.
2. An hour-long group presentation.
2. A 15 to 17 page research paper that explores how a selected information environment affects the Latino or Native American community.
3. Student discussion of the readings.
5. Class participation and interaction with the instructors and guest speakers.
6. Regular attendance. Please notify the instructor of an absence prior to the beginning of class. Missing class may result in the lowering of the overall grade.
Course Policies
Students are expected to abide by The University of Arizona Code of Academic Integrity. 'The guiding principle of academic integrity is that a student's submitted work must be the student's own.' If you have any questions regarding what is acceptable practice under this Code, please ask an instructor.
Any person in this course registered with the Disabilities Center who wishes to discuss reasonable accommodation related to the successful completion of the course should contact the Instructor.
Assignment Policies
Format, style and content: All papers for this course must be written in APA style.
Deadlines: Students are expected to meet all deadlines. Exceptions may be considered at the discretion of the Instructor.
Incompletes: The 1997-8 University of Arizona General Academic Manual, p.23 reads:
The grade of I may be awarded only at the end of a semester, when all but a minor portion of the course work has been satisfactorily completed. The grade of I is not to be awarded when the student is expected to repeat the course; in such a case the grade of E must be assigned. Students should make arrangements with the instructor to receive an incompete grade before the end of the semester ...
If the incomplete is not removed by the instructor within one year the I grade will revert to a failing grade.
Instructors for this course can be reached by email at:
Office hours are by appointment.
CLASS READINGS
Required readings: (E-Reserves)
Abrams, G. H. J. (1994). The case for wampum: Repatriation from the museum of the American Indian to the six nations confederacy, brantford, ontario, canada. In Museums and the making of “ourselves”: the role of objects in national identity (pp. 351-384). London and New York: Leicester University Press.
Alire, C. & Archibechque, O. (1998). Serving Latino Communities,(pp. 18-46). New York: Neal-Schuman.
Bagdikian, B.H. (2000). Democracy and the media. In B.H. Bagdikian, The Media Monopoly (p. viii-xivii). Boston: Beacon Press.
Bagdikian, B.H. (2000). The endless chain. In B.H. Bagdikian, The Media Monopoly (p. viii-xivii). Boston: Beacon Press.
Bagdikian, B.H. (2000). The growing gap. In B.H. Bagdikian, The Media Monopoly (p. viii-xivii). Boston: Beacon Press.
Bagdikian, B.H. (2000). Preface to the sixth edition. In B.H. Bagdikian, The Media Monopoly (p. viii-xivii). Boston: Beacon Press.
Barlow, J. P. (1994, March). The economy of ideas: A framework for patents and copyrights in the digital age. Wired, p. 84-127.
Benton Foundation (1999), Native Networking: Telecommunications and information technology in Indian Country.
Bigelow, J. Library and information services for Native Americans, Multicultural Review, pp. 20-24. V. 3, No.4.
Buckland, M. K. (1991). Information as thing. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 42(5), 351-360.
Caballero, C. (1990). Developing Hispanic archival collections. In S. Guereña, Latino Librarian: A handbook for professionals (pp. 101-110). London: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers.
Carr, D. (1990). The adult learner in the museum. In J. W. Soliinger (Ed). Museums and Universities: New paths for continuing education (pp. 7-37). New York: Collier Macmillan Publishers.
Chabran, R. & Salinas, R. (2003). Place matters, journeys through global and local spaces. Sturken, M. (ed.) In Reinventing Technology: Cultural Narratives of Technological Change.:Temple University Press.
Creighton, J. C. (2001, August). The public library of the future. Library Journal, 56-58.
Crew, S. R. & Sims, J. E. (1991). Locating authenticity: Fragments of a dialogue. In I. Karp & Lavine, S. Exhibiting cultures: The poetics and politics of museum display. (pp. 159-175). Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.
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Davalos, K. M. (2001). Containing the sacred, savage, and salvaged. In K. M. Davalos Exhibiting mestizaje: Mexican (american) museums in the diaspora, (pp. 35-56). Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
Durrance, J.C. (2001). Community information: The technological touch. Library
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Fleckner, J. A. (1984). What is a tribal archive. In Native American Archives: An introduction (pp. 1-5). Chicago: The Society of American Archivists.
Foote, K. E. (2000). Remember and forget: Archives, memory and culture. In R. C. Jimerson, (ed), American archival studies: Readings in theory and practice (pp. 29-46). Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2000).
Gallegos, B. (1991). A history of library services to the Mexican-American and Native American in Arizona. Journal of the West, 79-89.
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Guerena, S. (2000) Archives and manuscripts: historic antecedents to contemporary Chicano collections. Retrieved from http://cemawe b.library.ucsb.edu/arcman.html
Guerena, S. (2000). Latinos and librarianship. Library Trends, 49, 138-181.
Hein, G. E. (1998). The significance of museum education. In G. E. Hein, Learning in the Museum (pp. 1-13). New York: Routledge.
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Johansen, B.E. (2003). Putting the moccasin on the other foot: A media history of the “Fighting Whites.” Studies in Media & Information Literacy Education (3). http://www.utpjournals.com/jour.ihtml?lp=simile/issue9/johansenfulltext.html
Lenert, E.M. (1998). A communication theory perspective on telecommunications policy. Journal of Communication. p 3-23.
Marcum, D. B. (1997). Digital libraries: For whom? For what?. The Journal of Academic Libraianship, 23, 81-84.
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