History 4130   Spring 2012   MacKay

Course Calendar (subject to change with notification)

updated 19 March 2012

Week Activities Assessments
One Introductions and places  
Two

 

  • discussions

  • reports
Three Utah Historical Quarterly article
Four - Five Discussion and oral presentations on Mormon Country

  • discussions

  • oral presentation #1 (February 2)

    • 1-page handout can include summary, images; must include citations of sources

    • presentations should be not longer than 2 minutes.

  • response paper #2: How has Stegner taken you into Mormon Country? (rough draft for peer review due February 9; final due February 16)
Six - Ten Utah: The Right Place

February 9 Chapters 1-5

response paper #3: What difference has the geography made in the history of Utah? (rough draft for peer review due March 8; final due March 22)

February 16 Chapters 6- 15

  • discussion

February 23

oral presentation #2.  Explore a story from Beehive Archives; check out sources; explore further; report.

March 1

oral presentation #3: essay from Utah in the 20th Century
March 8

National recognition of Utah wonders

oral presentation #4

Exam 1: available on chi tester March 9-10, 19-20
Spring Break March 12-16    
Eleven We Shall Remain: A Native History of Utah - films

We will work with Resource materials created for the series by the American West Center, U of U.

We will also work with:

changing woman basket

Contemporary Navajo Baskets on the Utah Reservation

  • discussion

 

 

 
Twelve On Zion's Mount

oral presentation #5: reports from Utah Indian Country. Use Utah newspapers and Indian Country Today to find information about Utah Native Americans. Handout should include: summary, citation of sources

Discussion of text to page 140
Thirteen On Zion's Mount

 

Discussion of text 141 to end

April 7: field trip to Uintah Basin

response paper #4: Zion's Mount is a story about how Mormons invented a mountain and made it sacred, and how they degraded, and then ignored, a lake that had been the center of an earlier Ute Indian world. Nature alone does not make landscapes -- people make them "memorable." Mormons (Americans) venerate history but simultaneously deliberately promote historical forgetfulness. How did Farmer disorient you in telling Utah history from this cultural perspective? Due: April 12
Fourteen   oral presentation of contemporary book about Utah

Participation Statement due
Exam 2: available on chi tester April 14-19   Field Trip: April 21 meet at 7 AM