I'll comment on your entries each week, offering reactions to your arguments and suggestions for possible ways to improve your writing, but the journals are not graded. In addition to the journal, there is a more formal written assignment. As a way of making our discussions of historiography, research methodology, and teaching more concrete, I'm asking each member of the seminar to write a final paper which mimics one of three different major requirements you'll eventually face in your graduate program or later on in your career. You re more than welcome to choose any of the three different assignments, or even to discuss alternatives with me if none these seems perfectly suited to your needs. To help you plan your work, the number after each week's topic is the number of assigned pages for that week.
Readings are in rank order of importance for the week's discussion.
The Paths Out of Town. Ecofeminism, Women s History, and Environmental History, Journal of Women s History, forthcoming, 1-20 typescript. Class discussion will focus on documents and research methods. Uncommon Ground, 171-85. 69- 90, and selected critiques.