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Hillel Schwartz
Mondays 10:10 am -1:00 pm
MCC 125
Office MCC 124C, phone 858-534-8990
COGR 210D - HISTORICAL METHODS FOR COMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH
A hands-on seminar devoted to methods of finding and scrutinizing diverse
historical materials, and to modes of interpretation, analysis, argument,
proof, and narrative in history writing. Skimmings support weekly library/archival
soundings related to student research. Practical Outcomes: more sophisticated
research skills and strategies; more sophisticated approaches to historical
materials and writing; a completed and persuasive proposal for a travel
grant to a research collection outside San Diego in the near future.
OVERVIEW OF COURSE
I. Questions, Definitions, Doubts
II. Persons
III. Things / Institutions
IV. Sensations
V. Ideas
VI. Events
VII. Figure Image Sound
VIII. Eras
IX. Societies / Cultures
X. Peoples Places Times
COURSE REQUIREMENTS:
1. Preparing the assigned reading with care and thought, although skimmed.
2. Actively participating in seminar discussion.
3. Spending six hours each week in library/archival research on individual
topics.
4. Conducting research at off-campus libraries/archives/museums/historic
sites.
For local sites, see http://www.ucsd-civic-collaborative.org/resources/resrc.asp
5. Keeping a week-by-week file of the more curious/useful research results,
submitted at end of course as appendix to 8 below.
6. Bringing to seminar each week a copy of one of the more remarkable
documents, images, or acoustical materials most recently unearthed.
7. Completing a 9-item research exam DUE in class 26 November.
8. Preparing a formal 8-page proposal for a research travel grant. This
must be hardcopy and in my hands BY 10 AM DECEMBER 3rd (with complete
weekly file).
BOOK LIST:
Books and articles will be on two-hour Reserve at Geisel Library Circulation
Desk.
Those prefaced with @e are full texts of articles or sections of books
on electronic reserve and may be accessed by any computer with UCSD IP.
Seminar members may wish to purchase the following:
Angela Bourke, The Burning of Bridget Cleary (Viking, 2000)
Johannes Fabian, Time and the Other (Columbia, 1983)
Communications GR 201–Schwartz Syllabus
DETAILED weekly SYLLABUS
I. for 24 Sept: Questions, Definitions, Doubts
Before coming to class, skim: Richard W. Fox, Trials of Intimacy: Love
and Loss in the
Beecher-Tilton Scandal (Chicago, 1999)
**Please come to class with 2 different research projects in mind
II: for 1 October: Persons
Skim one of the following biographies:
Wolfgang Behringer, Shaman of Oberstdorf: Chonrad Stoeckhlin and the Phantomsof
the Night (Univ Press of Virginia, 1998) [16c Bavaria]
Charles Capper, Margaret Fuller I. The Private Years (Oxford, 1992) [19c
New England]
Alain Corbin, The Life of an Unknown (Columbia, 2001) [19c France-a clogmaker]
Natalie Zemon Davis, The Return of Martin Guerre (Harvard, 1983) [16c
Languedoc]
Jonathan Spence, The Death of Woman Wang (1978; Penguin, 1998) [17c China]
and one of the following group biographies:
Christopher Kent, Brains and Numbers: Elitism, Comtism, and Democracy
in
Mid-Victorian England (U Toronto, 1978) especially pp. 3-52
Allucquère Roseanne Stone, The War of Desire and Technology at
the Close of the
Mechanical Age (MIT, 1995) especially pp. 123-164
SONDAGE--primary: journals, diaries, letters, autobiographies, manuscripts,
immigration and genealogical records; NUCMC, RLIN, OCLC, LC, etc.
secondary: biographical dicts, NCAB, DAB, DNB, DSB, ALA portrait index,
quotations tertiary: biobiblio (e.g., Voltaire), dicts of pseudonyms &
anonyms; Wellesley Index
SITES: UCSD Special Collections; Scripps Institute of Oceanography Archives;
Women's History Reclamation Project, San Diego
III. for 8 October: Things / Institutions
**Note: Meet for class in Geisel Room 276 (left of lobby) for session
on Web searching
then proceed to Film/Video Room on 1st floor opposite steps down from
Reference area
Skim one of the following:
Alison J. Clarke, Tupperware: Promise of Plastic in 1950s America (Smithsonian,
1999)
Ruth Schwartz Cowan, More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology
from the Open Hearth to the Microwave (Basic, 1983)
Henry Petroski, The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance (Knopf,
1990)
@e Fred Miller Robinson, “The history and significance of the bowler
hat,” Triquarterly
66 (Spring-Summer 1986) 173-200 entire
and skim one of the following:
Betty B. Faust, Mexican Rural Development and the Plumed Serpent: Technology
and
Maya Cosmology in the Tropical Forest of Campeche, Mexico (Greenwood,
1999)
Chandra Mukerji, A Fragile Power: Scientists and the State (Princeton,
1989)
SONDAGE--primary: patents, business/admin records, advert materials, auction
& trade cats
secondary: Industrial/Tech indexes, Ency of Associations, material culture
journals
tertiary: corporate, government libraries & specialized archives;
LC Subject Index
SITES–Auto or Aerospace Museum, Balboa Park; Musical Instruments
Museum, Carlsbad;
Vista Antique Gas & Steam Engine Museum; Computer Museum of America;
Archives, Diocese of San Diego, 3888 Paducah Drive; SF Police Historical
Association
IV. for 15 October: Sensations
Skim one of the following:
Carolyn Walker Bynum, Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance
of Food
To Medieval Women (U Calif, 1987)
Alain Corbin, The Foul and the Fragrant: Odor and the French Social Imagination
(Harvard, 1986)
@e John Crowley, “The Sensibility of Comfort,” American Historical
R (1999) 749-82 (read)
David Kunzle, Fashion and Fetishism: A Social History of the Corset etc
(Rowman and
Littlefield, 1982)
Tom Lutz, Crying: The Natural and Cultural History of Tears (Norton, 1999)
Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World
(Oxford, 1985)
SONDAGE--primary: med/physiol/psych; novels, films, music, dance, fashion;
etiquette bks
secondary: medical abstracts, film documentaries, athletics, dance reviews,
tertiary: med & pharmaceutical archives; sports, costume, dance, fashion
libraries
SITES–Surfing Museum, Oceanside; Salk Institute, La Jolla; William
Heath Davis House V. for 22 October: Ideas
Skim one of the following:
Alain Boureau, The Lord's First Night: The Myth of the Droit de Cuissage
(Chicago, 1998)
pp. 1-154
@e Fiona Robinson, “The limits of a rights-based approach to international
ethics,” and
V. Spike Peterson & Laura Parisi, “Are women human?” both
in Human Rights Fifty
Years On, ed. Tony Evans (Manchester, 1998), pp. 58-76 and 132-60 (counts
as 1) Frances A. Yates, The Art of Memory (Chicago, 1966) pp. 1-230
SONDAGE--primary: philosophy texts; law cases; OED, DAB, Roberts, slang
dicts;
secondary: Dict of Hy of Ideas; Ency of Religion, Dict of Philosophy;
concordances
tertiary: scholarly journals, ISIS and other bibliographies, citation
indices
SITES–San Diego County Law Library, downtown; Univ of San Diego Law
Library
VI. For 29 October: Events
Skim the first entire, the second in patches, but check notes and bibliography
of both:
Angela Bourke, The Burning of Bridget Cleary (Viking, 2000)
Joan Hoff and Marian Yeates, The Cooper's Wife Is Missing: The Trials
of Bridget Cleary
(Basic, 2000)
SONDAGE–-primary: newspapers, almanacs, radio & tv news, police
records, photojournalism
secondary: history biblio and reviews, news indexes, Poole's, Facts on
File, almanacs
tertiary: timelines, dict and handbook of dates, histories of timetelling,
SITES–San Diego Historical Society, Balboa Park; Tijuana Historical
Society; Gaslamp Black Historical Society, or other from UCSD Collaborative
listings
Communications GR 201–Schwartz Syllabus Page 4
VII. for 5 November: Figure Image Sound
**Meet for class in Map Library, north end of 1st floor, Geisel Library
Skim one of the following books by Mark Monmonier:
Air Apparent: How Meteorologists Learned to Map, Predict, and Dramatize
the Weather
(Chicago, 1999)
Cartographies of Danger: Mapping Hazards in America (Chicago, 1997)
Drawing the Line: Tales of Maps and Cartocontroversy (Holt, 1969)
How to Lie with Maps (Chicago, 1991)
Mapping It Out: Expository Cartography for the Humanities and Social Sciences
(1993)
Skim one of the following, on visibles:
@e Michael Baxandall, “The historical object: Benjamin Baker’s
Forth Bridge,”in his Patterns
of Intention (Yale, 1985) pp 12-40
@e Robert Brain, “Standards and semiotics” [the graphic impulse
in 19c science/linguistics], in Inscribing Science, ed. T. Lenoir (Stanford,
1998) 249-84
Michael Lesy, Real Life: Louisville in the Twenties (Pantheon, 1976) [photo-essay]
Rosemary Mitchell, Picturing the Past: English History in Text and Image
(Clarendon, 2000) [how 19th-century history books and articles were illustrated]
And skim one of the following, on audibles:
@e Paul Carter, The Sound in-Between (New South Wales Press, 1992) 1-50
read entire
Silvia Montiglio, Silence in the Land of Logos [Classical Greece, voice,
and loudness]
(Princeton, 2000) skim first chapters
SONDAGE–-primary: maps, graphics, photos, folksong/fakesong, pop
music, poetry, drama
secondary: dicts of myth, symbols; ency/dict of visual art; discography;
phonolinguistics
tertiary: record catalogues; Duden's; photobanks and archives
SITES–-Adams Postcard collection, SDSU Special Collections; KPBS-FM
archives, SDSU?
Spreckels Organ Society ( Archive at Museum of San Diego Museum of History);
CRCA Library at UCSD; Lesbian and Gay Historical Society; NOAA
VIII. for 12 November: Eras
Skim:
Hillel Schwartz, Century's End (Doubleday, 1990), esp. 1-198
And only then skim:
Joan DeJean, Ancients Against Moderns (Chicago, 1997)
SONDAGE–primary: censuses, church records, cemeteries, age categories
secondary: periodization; epidemiology; demographic & econ stats;
archit history
tertiary: book of firsts; comparative calendars; rare books / printing
/media chronology
SITES–-San Diego Old Town history center; San Luis Rey Mission, Oceanside;
or other
from UCSD Collaborative website noted on cover sheet of this syllabus
Communications GR 201-Schwartz Syllabus Page 5
IX. for 19 November: Societies / Cultures
Skim entire:
Johannes Fabian, Time and the Other (Columbia, 1983)
and skim one of the following:
Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, The Monkey as Mirror: Symbolic Transformations in
Japanese History and Ritual (Princeton, 1987)
David G. Roskies, The Jewish Search for a Usable Past (Indiana, 1999)
esp. 1-66;
Moses J. Wilson, Afrotopia: Roots of African American Popular History
(Cambridge, 1998)
SONDAGE: children's books, school texts, driving/traffic manuals, holidays,
rumor, jingles, games and rhymes, aphorisms, proverbs, slogans;
lecture notes & old tests; recipes; formulaic expressions
SITES: chosen by each seminar member to fit personal research topic. X.
for 26 November: People, Places, Times
Skim one of the following:
Andrew C. Isenberg, Destruction of the Bison (Cambridge, 2000)
A. G. Mojtabi, Blessèd Assurance: At Home with the Bomb in Amarillo,
Texas
(Univ of New Mexico, 1987) [author's name also spelled Mojtabai]
SONDAGE: on 19 November each seminar member will be given a different
set
of nine highly specific questions whose answers can be found somewhere
on the UCSD campus.
The nine answers (correctly annotated as to source) are due at class time
on 26 November.
SITES: Length and breadth of UCSD, including SIO but not MCL.
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ABBREVIATIONS used on the weekly reference sheets:
idiosyncratic
aref Art and Architecture Reference Section, A&A Library, 1st floor,
Geisel
bref Biomedical Library Reference Section, 1st floor
desk Reference Section next to Info Desk, 2nd floor, Geisel (gref)
fv Film and Video Library, 1st floor, Geisel
gref Main Reference section, 2nd floor, Geisel
mref Music Reference Section, Music Library, 1st floor, Geisel
rbref Mandeville Special Collections [and Rare Books] Library, 2nd floor,
Geisel
sref Science and Engineering Reference Section, S & E Library, 2nd
floor, Geisel
xref Microform Newspaper and Periodical Library (CPNM), 1st floor, Geisel
standard
BML = Biomedical Library
CLICS = Center for Library and Instructional Computing Services, Revelle
campus
CMRR = Center for Magnetic Recording Research
CRCA = Center for Research in Computing and the Arts
IR/PS = International Relations / Pacific Studies Library, north end of
campus
MCL = Medical Center Library, Hillcrest (shuttle on the half hour from
near BML)
S&E = Science and Engineering Library inside Geisel
SIO = Scripps Institute of Oceanography (shuttle from small circle just
north of Mandeville)
SSH = Social Science and Humanities Library = Geisel
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