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  Professor Jonathan Rees
  Spring 2019
  11:15-12:35, PM 102
  Office: GCB 314
  Office Phone: 549-2541
  Office Hours:  MTWThF, 1-2PM or by appointment.
  E-Mail: drjonathanrees@gmail.com

  This is not going to be a conventional Colorado History course. It’s a digital history course, which means most of your work will be group work that goes into creating a permanent, digital, historical project on the open Internet. It’s also a hybrid class. That means much of the meeting, conversing and learning will be done off campus and online, both through various programs and an online blog.

  That also means that we will not meet as a class during most class periods (although I am usually available to talk at that time with advance notice). For about half the course sessions, you should meet at an off-campus archive or library to do research on or work upon your group projects. Those meetings DO NOT need to take place during class time.  When possible, I will pop in during your meeting to see how you’re doing. All students will later report on their sessions on their blogs (which is particularly important for off-campus sessions when I'm not there).

  Having a working e-mail address that you check is one of many electronic requirements related to this course. I will be collecting e-mails from you on the first day of the course. You will want to give me an address that you check fairly frequently because I will use it if I need to get a hold of you for some course-related business (most notably grades). All formal correspondence with me should go through the e-mail listed above. All assignments should arrive via Slack Direct Message. We'll set that up the second week of class, and you should check Slack regularly as that's where most of the class announcements will arrive.
  
  To see the rest of this syllabus and other select materials on this Scalar, navigate them via the menu at the top-left corner of this page.

  This University abides by the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which stipulates that no student shall be denied the benefits of an education “solely by reason of a handicap.” If you have a documented disability that may impact your work in this class and for which you may require accommodations, please see the Disability Resource Coordinator as soon as possible to arrange accommodations. In order to receive accommodations, you must be registered with and provide documentation of your disability to: the Disability Resource Office, which is located in the Library and Academic Resources Center, Suite 169.
  
  Student Learning Outcomes:
  
  Use the English language to communicate with clarity, coherence and persuasiveness, demonstrating critical analysis, logic, precision and rhetorical awareness. (Communication)
  
  Identify, analyze and evaluate arguments and sources of information to make informed and logical judgments, to arrive at reasoned and meaningful arguments and positions, and to formulate and apply ideas to new contexts. (Critical Thinking)
  
  Articulate the nature of a multicultural society and recognize the role of aesthetic awareness, foreign language skills, cultural and social perspectives or human and institutional systems of the past and present. (Diversity and Social Responsibility)
  
  Clarify and evaluate their own values and ethical conduct and analyze the values and ethical conduct of others. (Personal Values and Ethics)

   

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  10% OF YOUR GRADE will be based on your group's success at editing Wikipedia entries about Pueblo and its history.  You will gain information about Pueblo and its history through library research and claim the entries you want to edit on your respective blogs.  Your group should edit whatever entries as you see fit with the goal of having five complete sentences persist after subsequent editing.  You are welcome to just improve a section of the "Pueblo, Colorado" (or related entry) or try to create a whole new page.  The choice is yours.  If you are revising an existing entry, you should start by copying and paste it onto a Word Document, then dating that copy for later comparison purposes.  You will hand in those copies at the end of the assignment to see how much of your editing has persisted.  
  
  Once your editing is complete, print out the new entry and mark your group's new sentences with a highlighter.  Groups that have five sentences persist to the end of the semester will get an "A."  Those with lower numbers will get lower grades.  Later in the semester, work towards the same goal using your research project as the source of your information.  Entries that are fully-footnoted have a stronger chances of persisting.  Please submit evidence of all your edits by April 18th.  Since grades will be based upon how well your edits hold up over time, they will not be assigned for this task until the final exam period.
  
  15% OF YOUR GRADE will be based upon a paper concerning the books by Kelman and Andrews.  The question is:  "Compare and contrast the Sand Creek and Ludlow Massacres?  Were they more alike than different or more different than alike?  Explain."   In the course of explaining your answer, quote passages from the books to help you demonstrate the justification for your assessment.  The resulting paper should be 5-7 pages long, double-spaced, 1″ margins.  It is due via Slack by March 26th.