All participants in the course, including the instructor, are students. Our goal is to work together to gain an understanding of how American communities develop. Professor Carolyn Howe of the Holy Cross Sociology department and her students will be creating an exhibition on Worcester as a center of reform in the 1850s with particular reference to woman's rights. We will collaborate at times with them. She is eager to have students in this course, where their research projects are appropriate, contribute to the exhibition.
Students can also anticipate their work being posted to the course website.
It participates in the larger community of learners. Students can expect weekly or bi-weekly assignments which will result sometimes in a short essay and at other times in the creation of graphs, maps, or charts. There will be no examinations. The last month of the course will be given over to work on a final project of the student's own design. There are no textbooks.