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==Collaborators==
* Oral History Methods: Phil Frana
* Administration, Grantmaking, Professional Best Practices: Amanda Allen
* Video Production: Eric Deitz
* Photography: James Hyde
* Interviews: Courtney Bennett, Ben Dobbs, John Greene, James Hyde, Adam Lucas, Ryan Morrow
* Wiki Administration: Thomas Bertram
* Wiki authors:
* 2008 students: Fabia Bertram, Blake Bowman, Nicholas Coelho, Megan Davari, Casey Gambill, John Lenehan, Jeremy Morgan, Katie Nicholson Micah Ray, Eric Skinner, Allison Yocum

==Class Syllabus: Oral History and Digital Video Production (Spring 2008)==

*Instructors: Phil Frana, Amanda Allen, Eric Deitz
*Class Meets: New Hall Classroom, MWF 9-10 AM

Find Phil Frana at 303A McAlister Hall or in the Ethnography Lab. Appointments made in advance are always welcome. Email Phil at pfrana@uca.edu. His HCOL username is [http://honors.uca.edu/hcol/private.php?do=newpm&u=658 Phil]. Call him at (501) 450-3498. 

Amanda Allen may be contacted at Amanda@ucahonors.org. Her HCOL username is [http://honors.uca.edu/hcol/private.php?do=newpm&u=273 Amanda]. 

Eric Deitz may be contacted at edfilms.inc@gmail.com. His HCOL username is [http://honors.uca.edu/hcol/private.php?do=newpm&u=819 filmboy2008]. His phone number is (501) 749-6758.

'''Course Description'''

Want to do something hands-on next semester? Make history by listening to the stories people tell? Learn the theory and practice of oral history. This course is divided into several overlapping areas of study: basic ethnographic fieldwork and historical analysis; approaches to memory; instructional and interpretive strategies; interviewing, editing, and documenting; folk study; archives and documentation; public uses; oral history and new digital media; and the new oral history of commerce and technology. 

In addition to an individual project of your choice, you will participate in the Clinton Presidential Center Oral History Project. How exactly did the Clinton Library come to Little Rock? Who contributed to the effort and what controversies did they face? How were the architects selected? What’s the relationship between the Clinton Library, the School of Public Service, and the Foundation? What difference has the Library made in the lives of musicians and artists? How has it transformed Downtown Little Rock and the economy of Central Arkansas generally? Come find out. Class meets in the New Hall ethnography lab, with occasional forays to Little Rock.

'''Assigned Readings'''

*Thomas L. Charlton, Lois E. Myers, and Rebecca Sharpless, eds., ''History of Oral History: Foundations and Methodology'' (AltaMira, 2007). ISBN 0759102309.
*Deborah Escobar, ''Creating History Documentaries: A Step-By-Step Guide to Video Projects in the Classroom'' (Prufrock Press, 2001). ISBN 1882664760.
*Donald A. Ritchie, ''Doing Oral History: A Practical Guide,'' 2nd ed. (Oxford UP, 2003). ISBN 0195154339.

'''Aims, Outcomes, and Assessment'''

This class is an active collaboratory practicing oral history methods, including basic ethnographic and historical principles; approaches to memory; instructional and interpretive strategies; interviewing editing, and documenting; folk study; public uses; and cybermedia. This course focuses on the collection and analysis of oral narratives as evidence of the past. In addition to completing our work, we will examine both practical and theoretical material regarding the challenges and possibilities of oral history. Our aim is to study oral narrative and oral history in several contexts for use by scholars in many disciplines. The course’s central theme is the representation of democratic beliefs as applied to oral history in contemporary Little Rock Downtown revitalization.

In addition to reading assignments and discussion, you will produce for this class research-grade oral histories with associated notes and appendices and -- as a group project -- make significant contributions to the Clinton Presidential Center & Downtown Little Rock Memory Project. You cannot pass this course without submitting all assignments. The breakdown in assigning a final grade will be determined as follows: group participation (25%), individual project (25%), group project (25%), and individual class presentations & assignments (25%).

'''Assignments'''

* pursue an individual oral history project by conducting interviews, transcribing, and editing the source media
* contribute to the Clinton Library & Downtown Little Rock Project by conducting interviews, transcribing, and editing the source media
* write weekly FranaWiki entries
* give an overview of an oral history project or collection 
* show mastery the principles of downtown and neighborhood revitalization
* study non-verbal cues
* develop a common thematic set of questions for project interviews
* read and critique an existing Honors College Oral History transcript
* in-class critiques of oral history interviews
* improve your interviewing skills and evaluate your own performance
* practice interviewing on each other and on a mystery guest

''Final Presentation:'' Your final presentation will be delivered as an audio or video podcast, or as a radio interview on KCON 1230 AM or KUCA 91.3 FM. All final presentations will be produced with MP3 or MPEG-4 editing software.

'''Grading, Attendance'''

Three or more unexcused absences will automatically result in a lowered grade. Missing a class in which you are the assigned leader will also result in a lowered grade. Grading scale:

''Potential realized''

*A – Superior contributions befitting the caliber of a UCA Honors scholar.

''Potential not yet realized''

*B – Contributions acceptable, but lacking clarity, consistency, or continuity. Contributions brief; class attendance less than stellar.
*C – Fails in commitment to make acceptable contributions in one or more areas.
*D – Fails in commitment to make contributions in many or nearly all areas.
*F – Systematically fails to attend, share ideas, read, or write.

'''Plagiarism Policy''' 

Plagiarism is defined here as the “stealing of passages either word for word or in substance, from the writings of another and publishing them as one’s own.” You are plagiarizing when you present an idea or interpretation that you did not originate without acknowledgment. You are plagiarizing when you copy and incorporate someone else’s work into your own without setting it off with quotation marks and identifying the source. You are also plagiarizing when you borrow from someone else’s work and simply change a few words before adding it to your own work. Plagiarism is a serious violation of academic ethics and constitutes grounds for disciplinary action (refer to your UCA Student Handbook in this regard).

'''Other Student Conduct'''

Note also the general standards for student conduct, including the university’s sexual harassment policy, in your current student handbook. The University of Central Arkansas adheres to the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act. If you need an accommodation under this Act due to a disability, please contact the UCA Office of Disability Services, (501) 450-3135.

'''Ethnography Lab Information'''

Comprising computers, camcorders, DVD camcorders, and digital voice recorders, the Ethnography Lab is located in New Hall, where it shares space with the Honors College's Publications Office. The Ethnography Lab supports student, staff, and faculty projects that involve interactions with and observations of people. The equipment is available for any course-related project that involves interviewing, filming, or photographing human activities. The lab's computers have user-friendly video and sound editing software as well as Microsoft Office and internet access. When not in use by the Publications Office, scanners are also available.

Students, faculty, and staff may check out equipment on a first come, first serve basis throughout the semester and for longer periods during summer and holidays. To check out equipment or use the lab facilities, please contact Adam Frank at afrank@uca.edu or (501) 450-3486.

==Class Schedule/Assignments==
Assignments indicated in brackets thus [].

*January 10 (F) - What is Oral History and Who Does It?

*January 14 (M) - Oral History Projects and Collections
*January 16 (W) - The Scholarly Task of Oral History
*January 18 (F) - Interviewing [wiki entry due]

*January 21 (M) - Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday	
*January 23 (W) - Critique an Existing Clinton Library Interview [critique due]
*January 25 (F) - Practice Interviewing on Each Other [wiki entry due]

*January 28 (M) - Practice Interview with Mr. X
*January 30 (W)	- Research Design: Elites versus Ordinary People
*February 1 (F) - Develop a Common Set of Project Questions [wiki entry due]

*February 4 (M)	- Videography 
*February 6 (W) - Sponsored Projects and Grant Writing
*February 8 (F) - Ethics/Impact of Oral History on Individual & Community/Accessibility [wiki entry due]

*February 11 (M) - Video Editing Basics 
*February 13 (W) - Video Editing Basics [personal research plan due]
*February 15 (F) - Ethnography and Folklore [wiki entry due]

*February 18 (M) - Transcription 
*February 20 (W) - Critique a Clinton Library Transcript [critique due]
*February 22 (F) - Guest Speaker: Jimmy Bryant on UCA Archives Oral Histories [wiki entry due]

*February 25 (M) - Guest Speaker: Alli Hogue on Arkansas Traveler's Project	
*February 27 (W) - Criticisms of Oral History 
*February 29 (F) - Guest Speaker: Patrick Taylor on New Urbanism [wiki entry due]

*March 3 (M) - Downtown Revitalization: Little Rock as Case Study [summary of article due]
*March 5 (W) - Guest Speaker: Jose Guzzardi
*March 7 (F) - Deborah Tannen and Communication Styles [wiki entry due]

*March 10 (M) - Types of Oral History Products 
*March 12 (W) - Types of Oral History Products, part deux
*March 14 (F) - Clinton Library & Heifer Visit [wiki entry due]

*March 17 (M) - Reflective Analysis of Your Own Interview Experience [reflective analysis due]
*March 19 (W) - Reports from the field
*March 21 (F) - Reports from the field [wiki entry due]

*March 24 - Spring Break	
*March 26 - Spring Break	
*March 28 - Spring Break

*March 31 (M) - Reports from the field [transcript due]
*April 2 (W) - Reports from the field
*April 4 (F) - [wiki entry due]

*April 7 (M) - Reports from the field
*April 9 (W) - Reports from the field
*April 11 (F) - Reports from the field [wiki entry due]

*April 14 (M) - Reports from the field
*April 16 (W) - Reports from the field
*April 18 (F) - Reports from the field [wiki entry due]

*April 21 (M) - Reports from the field
*April 23 (W) - [all transcript & portfolios due]
*April 25 - Study Day

*April 28-May 2 - Final Examination Interview

==Organizations & Publications==
*[http://alpha.dickinson.edu/oha/ '''Oral History Association''']
*[http://caliber.ucpress.net/loi/ohr ''Oral History Review'']
*[http://alpha.dickinson.edu/oha/pub_nl.html ''OHA Newsletter'']

*[http://www.ncph.org/ '''National Council on Public History''']
*[http://www.ncph.org/PublicationsResources/ThePublicHistorian/tabid/311/Default.aspx ''The Public Historian'']
*[http://www.ncph.org/PublicationsResources/PublicHistoryNews/tabid/314/Default.aspx ''Public History News'']

*[http://www.afsnet.org/ '''American Folklore Society''']
*[http://www.afsnet.org/publications/jaf.cfm ''Journal of American Folklore'']
*[http://www.afsnet.org/publications/AFSnews.cfm ''AFS News'']

*[http://www.aaslh.org/ '''American Association for State and Local History''']
*[http://www.aaslh.org/historynews.htm History News]

*[http://www.albany.edu/jmmh/ ''Journal for MultiMedia History'']

'''H-Net Discussion Networks''' 
*[http://www.h-net.org/~local/ H-Local (Local History)]
*[http://www.h-net.org/~oralhist/ H-Oralhist (Oral History)]
*[http://www.h-net.org/~pcaaca/ H-PCAACA (Popular Culture)] 
*[http://www.h-net.org/~public/ H-Public (Public History)]   

*[http://library.ucsc.edu/reg-hist/ohalist.html Oral History Association Electronic Listserv]

==Oral History Bibliography==
'''Fieldwork'''

*James Clifford, “Partial Truths,” in ''Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography,'' eds. James Clifford and George E. Marcus, University of California Press, 1990.

*Robert Darnton, “Writing News and Telling Stories,” ''Daedalus'' 104 (Spring 1975): 175-94.

*Micaela Di Leonardo, "Oral History as Ethnographic Encounter," ''Oral History Review'' 15 (1987): 1-20.

*Ronald J. Grele, "Listen to Their Voices: Two Case Studies in the Interpretation of Oral History Interviews," in ''Envelopes of Sound,''pp. 212-41.

*Mary Louise Pratt, “Fieldwork in Common Places,” in ''Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography,'' eds. James Clifford and George E. Marcus, University of California Press, 1990.

*Carl Wilmsen, "For the Record: Editing and the Production of Meaning in Oral History," ''Oral History Review'' 28 (Winter-Spring 2001): 65-86.

*Valerie Yow, "'Do I Like Them Too Much?': Effects of the Oral History Interview on the Interviewer and Vice-Versa," ''Oral History Review'' 24 (Summer 1997): 55-79.

'''Museums'''

*Anna Green, "Returning History to the Community: Oral History in a Museum Setting," ''Oral History Review'' 24 (Winter 1997): 53-72.		

'''Education'''

*Lynne Hamer, "Oralized History: History Teachers as Oral History Tellers," ''Oral History Review'' 27 (Summer-Fall 2000): 19-40.

*Grace Huerta and Leslie Flemmer, "Using Student-Generated Oral History Research in the Secondary Classroom," ''Clearing House'' 74 (2000): 105-10. 

*Barry A. Lanman and George L. Mehaffy, ''Oral History in the Secondary School Classroom,'' Oral History Association, 1989.

*Charles R. Lee and Kathryn L. Nasstrom, eds. "Practice and Pedagogy: Oral History in the Classroom," ''Oral History Review'' 25 (Summer-Fall 1998): entire issue, 1-117.

*N.C. Marchart, "Doing Oral History in the Elementary Grades," ''Social Education'' 43 (1979): 479-80.

*G.L. Mehaffy, "Oral History in Elementary Classrooms," ''Social Education'' 48 (1984): 470-2.

*Fay D. Metcalf and Matthew T. Downey, ''Using Local History in the Classroom,'' American Association for State and Local History, 1982.

*Laurie Mercier and Madeline Buckendorf, ''Using Oral History in Community History Projects,'' Oral History Association, 1992.

*David L. Moore, "Between Cultures: Oral History of Hmong Teenagers in Minneapolis," ''Vietnam Generation'' 2 (1990): 38-52.

*Charles T. Morrissey, "Oral History Interviews: Does Age Make a Difference?" ''Oral History Association Newsletter'' 35 (Fall 2001): 11.

*John Neuenschwander, "Oral History in the High School Classroom," ''Oral History Review'' 3 (1975): 59-61.

*Irma M. Olmedo, "Junior Historians: Doing Oral History with ESL and Bilingual Students," ''TESOL Journal'' (Summer 1993).

*A. Sears, "Enriching Social Studies with Interviews," ''History and Social Science Teache''r 25 (1990): 67-71.

*Thad Sitton, et al., ''Oral History: A Guide for Teachers and Others,'' University of Texas Press, 1983.

*Margaret Sullivan, "Into Community Classrooms: Another Use for Oral History," ''Oral History Review'' 2 (1974): 52-8.

*Eliot Wigginton, "Foxfire Grows Up," ''Harvard Educational Review'' 59 (February 1989): 24-49.

'''Business & Technology Studies'''

*John Bodnar, "Power and Memory in Oral History: Workers and Managers at Studebaker," ''Journal of American History'' 75 (1989): 1201-21.

*Thomas Dublin, "Gender and Economic Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region, 1920-1970," ''Oral History Review'' 27 (Winter-Spring 2000): 81-98.

*Andrew J. Dunar and Dennis McBride, ''Building Hoover Dam: An Oral History of the Great Depression,'' University of Nevada Press, 2001.

*Laurie Graham, ''On the Line at Subaru-Isuzu: The Japanese Model and the American Worker,'' Cornell University Press, 1995.

*Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, ''Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World,'' University of North Carolina Press, 1987.

*Michael Hoberman, "High Crimes and Fallen Factories: Nostalgic Utopianism in an Eclipsed New England Industrial Town," ''Oral History Review'' 28 (Winter-Spring 2001): 17-40.

*Roger Horowitz and Rick Halpern, "Work, Race, and Identity: Self-Representation in the Narratives of Black Packinghouse Workers," ''Oral History Review'' 26 (Winter-Spring 1999): 23-43.

*Thomas E. Leary and Elizabeth C. Sholes, ''From Fire to Rust: Business, Technology, and Work at the Lackawanna Steel Plant, 1899-1983,'' Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society, 1987.

*Katrina Mason, ''Children of Los Alamos: An Oral History of the Town Where the Atomic Age Began,'' Twayne Publishers, 1995.

'''Rural Studies'''

*Michael A. Gordon, "Oral Documentation and the Sustainable Agriculture Movement in Wisconsin," ''Public Historian'' 11 (Fall 1989): 83-98.

*Lu Ann Jones and Nancy Grey Osterud, "'If I Must Say So Myself': Oral Histories of Rural Women," ''Oral History Review'' 17 (Fall 1989): 1-23.

*Melissa Walker, "Calling the Men Out from the Boys: Concepts of Success in the Recollections of a Southern Farmer," ''Oral History Review'' 27 (Summer-Fall 2000): 1-18.

'''Memory'''

*John Bodnar, "Generational Memory in an American Town," ''Journal of Interdisciplinary History'' 26 (1996): 619-37.

*John Neuenschwander, "Remembrance of Things Past: Oral Historians and Long-Term Memory," ''Oral History Review'' 6 (1978): 45-53.

'''Law'''

*Joseph Romney, "Legal Considerations in Oral History," ''Oral History Review'' 1 (1973): 66-76.

*John Neuenschwander, "Oral History and the Law: An Update," ''Oral History Association Newsletter'' 31 (Winter 1997): 4-6.

==Selected Oral History Websites==
*[http://www.duke.edu/web/hst195.15/ American Communities: African American Experiences in Durham, NC] 
*[http://www-cds.aas.duke.edu/btv/ Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South]
*[http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/ohonline/ Bancroft Library Oral History Online]
*[http://blackout.gmu.edu/ The Blackout History Project]
*[http://www.cbi.umn.edu/collections/oralhistories.html#about Charles Babbage Institute Oral History Program]
*[http://www.historicferryyankee.com/oralhistory.htm Historic Ferry Yankee]
*[http://historymatters.gmu.edu/browse/manypasts/ History Matters: Browse Many Pasts]
*[http://www.tulane.edu/~lmiller/OralHistoryIntroduction.html Hogan Jazz Archive]
*[http://www.intel.com/intel/intelis/museum/arc_collect/oh_main.htm Intel Museum Oral History Archive]
*[http://www.si.edu/lemelson/dig/o-v-history.html Invention History at the Lemelson Center: Oral and Video History]
*[http://www.nersc.gov/~deboni/Computer.history/ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Oral and Pictorial History Project]
*[http://www.lib.umd.edu/LAB/transcript.html Library of American Broadcasting Transcripts]
*[http://www.muohio.edu/~oralhxcwis/index.htmlx Miami Valley Cultural Heritage Project]
*[http://www.usm.edu/msoralhistory/ Mississippi Oral History Project]
*[http://www.nasm.si.edu/nasm/dsh/oralhistory.html National Air and Space Museum Oral History Project]
*[http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/ Sloan MouseSite]
*[http://www.vhf.org Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation]
*[http://www-dept.usm.edu/~mcrohb/ University of Southern Mississippi Civil Rights Documentation Project]
*[http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/1968/ The Whole World Was Watching: An Oral History of 1968]
*[http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/wise/neh.html Women in Science and Engineering Oral History Project]
*[http://faculty.buffalostate.edu/fishlm/folksongs/ The Vietnam Veterans Oral History and Folklore Project]
*[http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/exhome.html Voices from the Thirties: Life Histories from the Federal Writers’ Project]

==Downtown Revitalization, Sustainability, Smart Growth, and Historic Preservation Resources==
*[http://www.nemw.org/DowntownRevital.pdf Barbara Wells, ''Downtown Revitalization in Urban Neighborhoods and Small Cities'']
*[http://www.brookings.edu/metro/pubs/20050307_12steps.pdf Christopher Leinberger, ''Turning Around Downtown - Twelve Steps to Revitalization'']
*[http://cted.wa.gov/_cted/documents/ID_160_Publications.pdf Washington State Downtown Revitalization Program, ''Organizing a Successful Downtown Revitalization Program Using the Main Street Approach'']
*[http://www.eda.gov/ImageCache/EDAPublic/documents/pdfdocs/meyer_2epdf/v1/meyer.pdf Peter Meter & H. Wade VanLandingham, ''Reclamation and Economic Regeneration of Brownfields'']
*[http://www.ruralpa.org/downtown.pdf Martin Shields and Tracey Farrigan, ''Welcome Back Downtown: A Guide to Revitalizing Pennsylvania's Small Downtowns'']
*[http://www.businessofgovernment.org/pdfs/Mitchell.pdf Jerry Mitchell, Business Improvement Districts and Innovative Service Delivery]
*[http://www.downtowndevelopment.com/perspectives.php Downtown Research and Development Center, various issues of ''Downtown Idea Exchange'']
*[http://ncppp.org/resources/papers/NCPPP_HDRTI2.pdf HDR, ''Street Cars and Economic Development'']
*[http://www.metroplan.org/includes/pdfs/datacenter/Econ2006.pdf Metroplan, ''Metrotrends: Economic Review & Outlook 2006'']
*[http://www.brookings.edu/es/urban/gentrification/gentrification.pdf Maureen Kennedy & Paul Leonard, ''Dealing with Neighborhood Change'']
*[http://www.nga.org/cda/files/062501ARTSDEV.pdf Phil Psilos & Kathleen Rapp, ''The Role of the Arts in Economic Development'']
*[http://www.iedconline.org/Downloads/Smart_Growth.pdf Alex Iams & Pearl Kaplan, eds., ''Economic Development & Smart Growth'']
*[http://egov.oregon.gov/LCD/docs/publications/commmixedusecode.pdf Oregon Downtown Development Association, ''Commercial & Mixed Use Development'']

==Other Mediawiki Memory Projects==
*[http://secondlife.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page Second Life Wikia]
*[http://www.lrchmemory.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page Little Rock Central High Memory Project]
*[http://tmbw.net/wiki/Main_Page This Might Be a Wiki: The They Might Be Giants Knowledge Base]

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