There are four major projects to complete in this class, carefully scaffolded and sequenced to build on one another. Since you will sometimes be working on multiple projects simultaneously, this page provides an overview to project deadlines and links to detailed prompts for your major assignments. *Links to assignment prompts forthcoming.
Project 1: Interview Indexing and Summary Headnote Authoring
1/17 Assignment Prompt Distributed
1/22 OHMS Accounts created and Distributed, Interviews for Indexing Assigned
1/24 Draft Transcript Authentication due
1/29 Project 1.1 Peer Review of Indexing, Interview Headnotes, and Reflective Essays Due.
2/26 Project 1.1 Instructor Feedback Distributed
3/26 Project 1.2 Revised Indexes and Interview Headnotes due
4/9 Project 1.2 Instructor Feedback Distributed
4/16 Project 1.3 Revised Indexes and Interview Headnotes due
4/25 Project 1.3 Instructor Feedback Distributed
4/30 Project 1.4 Final Indexes and Interview Headnotes due
Project 2: Rhetorical Analysis of Oral History
1/31 Assignment Prompt Distributed
2/5 Informal Response Due, Thesis Workshop in Class
2/12 Final Project Overview Assignment Prompt Introduced
2/14 Project 2:1 Due in Class Peer Review
2/19 Peer Review Oral Presentations
2/28 Instructor Feedback 2.1 Distributed
3/7 Project 2.2 Final due in Class
*The Nunn Studio has generously reserved the week of March 25-29 for recording our class interviews. There are additional slots available during the week prior and post, and they are also open over spring break for those of you who are in town.
Project 3: Original Oral History Interview and Research
3/7 Introduction to Primary Research with Sarah Dorpinghaus, Annotated Bibliography Assignment Prompt Distributed
(meet in UKSCRC King Library)
3/19 Using UK Libraries Workshop (TBD)
Interviewees selected, contacted, scheduled
3/21 Interview Protocol Questions due–How-to Interviewing Workshop
4/2 Reflective Essay 2: Collaborative Research and Interviewing Introduced
4/4 Interviews, Release forms, Photos, and Reflective Essays Due to Dr. Jan and Kopana Terry
4/11 Reflective Essay 2: Collaborative Research and Interviewing Due
Project 4: Presenting Oral History
3/26 Writing Workshop: Turning Interviews Into Story
3/28 Workday–Learning Audacity/Editing/Interviewing
4/2 Annotated Bibliographies Due
4/9 Project 4:Scripts Due /Peer Review/ Final Reflective Essay Introduced
4/11 Instructor Feedback Distributed/Work Day
4/16 Work day
4/18 Rough Cuts Due/Peer Review
4/23 Final Project Presentations
4/25 Kentucky Jewish History Symposium 2: Niles Gallery 12:45-3:00 pm(Final Presentations)
4/30 Final Cuts, Final Reflective Essays, Final Indexes and Summaries Due by noon