HIST269 CS209

Preserving History and Culture on the Internet

Instructor: Doug Bocaz-Larson
Email: dbocaz@nmsu.edu
Phone: 290-1331
Office: 124
Office hours/Tutoring: M/W 6:45-8:15 and Tu/Th 5:30-6:45/8:00-8:15

Course Description: The purpose of this course (Preserving History and Culture on the Internet) is to create a website that captures the past and present of the people in New Mexico, specifically those groups who have lived in and around Cibola County for more than a generation. The goal is to have the website be a permanent record of the past and present culture of our area.

HIST269 - Students taking History will focus on collecting information about the local history and culture including oral history, family stories, old photographs, current culture events, etc.

CS209 - Students taking the Computer Science course will be creating a website that will contain the information collected by the history students in a well-organized, user-friendly format.

Instructor Availability: My office hours are listed above, but I will be happy to work with you in a computer lab if you arrange a time with me. Tutoring is also available. Please call or email me. I am very quick to respond by email or by cell phone.

Evaluation: Assignments/Homework

Grading scale: 100-90% A 89-80% B 79-70% C 69-60% D >59%

Deadlines: Students must meet the deadlines in order to receive full credit for assignments, quizzes, and projects. You will be given until the Monday after the assignment deadline to turn in the assignments for full credit. After that point, 10% will be taken off for each week the assignment is late up to 40%. The final deadline is not flexible. No late assignments will be taken after the final deadline for the course.

Final deadline for all 1st 4 week assignments ­ April 13

Final deadline for all 2nd 4 week assignments ­ May 2

Failure to meet the above deadlines may result in your being dropped from the course by the first 4 weeks or a failing grade on the 2nd 4 week assignments. My office hours are listed above, but I will be happy to work with you in a computer lab if you arrange a time with me. Tutoring is also available. Please call or email me. I am very quick to respond by email or by cell phone.

Important Dates:
March 9 Classes Begin
March 21-25 Spring Break
April 26 Last day to drop
May 2 Last day of class

Important Notes to Students (the fine print): If you have, or believe you have, a disability that interferes with your performance as a student in this class, you are encouraged for academic reasons to discuss this on a confidential basis with your instructor and/or The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Coordinator in the Main Office or by calling 287-7981. If you have a condition that may affect your ability to exit from the premises in case of an emergency, you are urged, for safety reasons, to notify the ADA coordinator. Any student found guilty of academic misconduct shall be subject to disciplinary action. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to, the following actions: cheating; plagiarism; unauthorized possession of examinations, reserve library materials or laboratory materials; unauthorized changing of grades on an examination, instructor’s grade book or grade report; nondisclosure or misrepresentation in filing out applications or other college records; or violation of computer use policies. The following disciplinary actions and sanctions may be imposed for any of the above infractions of regulations: disciplinary probation, disciplinary suspension, dismissal, expulsion.

This is a preview of the upcoming Spring schedule of assignments.
This schedule will be updated on March 9, 2005

A few assignments we'll be doing:
All students will find websites on Southwest history and culture. We don't want to reinvent the wheel and create a website similar to something else on the web.

How can we make our website unique/different?

How do we organize, divide information (geographically, by culture?)

If we were to have a domain name for the website, what would we use?

Planning: CS students will plan website in detail and then create the website, including photo restoration and formatting of material collected by History students.

HIST students will begin by answering: What do you know now about our local cultures and history? What connections do you have to the past and current history and culture?

History students will then collect oral and written information about our local people as well as collect photographs and other items of cultural and historical interest.

May 2 Final Deadline for All Assignments