Schedule

Week One (2/16): Introduction and groundwork
RQ: What do you want from this class? What structure would work best for you?

Week Two (2/23): Thinking about absence and erasure

Week Three (3/2): Archives
RQ: What even is an archive?

Week Four (3/9): Archiving BMC history
RQ: What does Bryn Mawr acknowledge as its history?
Visit by Eric Pumroy and Allison Mills

Week Five (3/16): Filling in holes in the institutional archive
RQ: How have colleges/students tried to fill holes in their/their schools’ history?
Visit by Monica Mercado

Week Six (3/23): Community + temporary archives
RQ: How do you archive something ephemeral?
Project topic statement due

~~ SPRING PAUSE (3/30) ~~

Week Seven (4/6): Memorialization
Visit by Liz Greenspan

Week Eight (4/13): Ownership and access
RQ: Who should have access to archival material? Who owns archival materials?
Visit by Monument Lab
Project proposal due

Week Nine (4/20)

Week Ten (4/27)

Week Eleven (5/4)

Week Twelve
Project and portfolio due at end of finals