Gold miners & dreams of riches, hippies & drugs, the Castro & Harvey Milk: popular images of San Francisco are colorful and controversial. In this course, we will explore topics like these to trace the adventurous and provocative history of SF. We will also use primary sources including oral history, art, film, newspaper articles, and photographs to examine the rise of a Latino community in the Mission District. As we construct a case study of the Mission, we will investigate the role of radical politics, racial identity, and art and culture in San Francisco neighborhoods. Emphasizing digital history and writing for a public audience, this course will ask students to research and write like historians, producing historical content to share online about the history of San Francisco. The ultimate goal of this class is generate a digital history project that creates and organizes content for outside viewers.
Upon the successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
Lincoln Cushing, All of Us or None: Social Justice Posters of the San Francisco Bay Area (2012) | This is out of print, so I recommend you buy this via kindle
Susan Johnson, Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush (2000) | paperback
Jessica Sewell, Women and the Everyday City: Public Space in San Francisco, 1890-1915 (2011) | paperback | kindle
Nayan Shah, Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Franciscos Chinatown (2001) | paperback | kindle
Josh Sides, Erotic City: Sexual Revolutions and the Making of Modern San Francisco (2009) | paperback | kindle
Rebecca Solnit, Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas (2010) | paperback
Unit | Date | Topics | Readings | Tasks To Do | |
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Early San Francisco: Gender and Social Norms Skills: Finding and Using Primary Sources; Collecting Data |
W 08/24 | |
Survey of Digital Skills | ||
M 8/29 |
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Reading | Twitter 01 | ||
W 8/31 | The Gold Rush:
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Reading | Blog 01 | ||
M 9/5 | |
Reading | Twitter 02 | ||
W 9/7 |
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Reading | Blog 02 | ||
M 9/12 | Reading | Twitter 03 | |||
W 9/14 | |
Reading | "Big" Blog 03 - Due Sunday | ||
Creating Modern San Francisco: Race and the City Skills: Historical Argument and Visualizing Space and Geographic Data |
M 9/19 | |
Reading/Task | ||
W 9/21 | |
Reading | Blog 04 | ||
M 9/26 | |
Reading | Twitter 04 | ||
W 9/28 | |
Reading | Blog 05 | ||
M 10/3 | |
Reading | Twitter 05 | ||
W 10/5 | Discussion 06
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Reading | "Big" Blog 06 - Due Sunday | ||
M 10/10 | Tutorial: Creating Maps with Carto
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Reading | Twitter 06 | ||
W 10/12 | Tutorial: Creating Maps with Carto
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Reading | Blog 07 | ||
FALL BREAK | |||||
SF: A Capital of Counterculture and Radicalism Skills: Text Analysis and Advanced Mapping Techniques |
M 10/24 | Group Projects & Upcoming Blog Assignments | Reading | Twitter 07 | |
W 10/26 | |
Reading | Blog 08 | ||
M 10/31 | |
Reading | Twitter 08 | ||
W 11/2 | Sexual Radicalism and Space in SF | Reading | Project Proposal 1 | ||
M 11/7 | |
Reading | |||
W 11/9 | Tutorial: Text Analysis Tools
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Reading | "Big" Blog 09 | ||
M 11/14 | |
Reading | |||
W 11/16 | |
Bring Blog Revision to class for Found SF | Blog 10 (noon) | ||
Final Projects |
M 11/21 | NO Class - Work on your Project | |||
W 11/23 | NO CLASS | Project Update 2 (midnight) | |||
M 11/28 | NO Class - Work on your Project | ||||
W 11/30 | Project Group Meetings - Sign up for a time to meet with Dr. Wieck | Project Update 3 (noon) | |||
M 12/5 | Projects / Presentations
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W 12/7 | Projects / Presentations | Project Update 4 (midnight) | |||
W 12/14 by 6:30 PM | Final Project and Peer Evals Due | Final Project Due |
Component (click on labels for assignment overviews) | Points |
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Twitter Primary Source Analysis and Reviews via Twitter. | 8 × 5 pts. |
Discussion A weekly in-class survey as a self-examination of your discussion contributions and participation. | 10 × 4 pts. |
Blog Posts Weekly blog posts synthesizing material and practicing historical and digital skills. | 5 × 15 pts; 5 × 30 pts. (big blogs / blog 07 & 10) |
Other Blog Posts Blog 00 and Campus Event Blogs (1 required, 1 additional for extra credit up to 10 pts. | 5 pts (Blog 00); 20 pts (Campus Event) |
Final Project Final Project (including several checkpoints). | 50 pts. + 150 pts. |
Total | 530 |
Grade | Points | Grade | Points |
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A | 492-530 | C+ | 408-423 |
A- | 477-491 | C | 386-407 |
B+ | 461-476 | C- | 371-385 |
B | 439-460 | D | 318-370 |
B- | 424-438 | F | 0-317 |
- great for maps and urban planning