Welcome!
On the left under each name you will find the end-of-semester, multimedia projects written and put together by my lovely students in HIS 101: Western Tradition II at Marymount California University.
This website, along with other class projects and the tumblr blog Endnotes, is part of a larger push to integrate MCU academics, scholarship, and pedagogy into the digital humanities.
These projects were due on May 1, 2014 at 3 pm PST, and cover a variety of topics that fall under the rather large umbrella of social and cultural history of the modern western world. The chronological range of the topics is vast, from the age of Absolutism to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Each project, in one way or another, was supposed to have grappled with how gender, class, racial, ethnic, religious, or national identities in modern Europe (or in the former colonies) could be expressed in primary sources. Reading through and exploring these projects, one may perhaps see how they illuminate the variegated qualities of the so-called 'western' tradition.
This final project had to contain the following elements:
Many thanks to all my students who shared their research, work, and insights.
This website, along with other class projects and the tumblr blog Endnotes, is part of a larger push to integrate MCU academics, scholarship, and pedagogy into the digital humanities.
These projects were due on May 1, 2014 at 3 pm PST, and cover a variety of topics that fall under the rather large umbrella of social and cultural history of the modern western world. The chronological range of the topics is vast, from the age of Absolutism to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Each project, in one way or another, was supposed to have grappled with how gender, class, racial, ethnic, religious, or national identities in modern Europe (or in the former colonies) could be expressed in primary sources. Reading through and exploring these projects, one may perhaps see how they illuminate the variegated qualities of the so-called 'western' tradition.
This final project had to contain the following elements:
- A 5-page essay with an imaginative title that explored a primary source and what it can tell us about social or cultural identities in the west.
- A bibliography of primary and secondary sources.
- An excerpt of the primary source, or the primary source in full, with a short annotation introducing the source.
- A multimedia gallery of at least four items -- videos or images -- that are relevant to the topic with short descriptions of each.
Many thanks to all my students who shared their research, work, and insights.
-Esther Cuenca, instructor
May 2, 2014
Our study session, May 5, 2014