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1. General Interest
(Educational) Resources
The Wonders of the African World, with Henry
Louis Gates, Jr.
http://www.pbs.org/wonders/
Explore these Features:
Wonders | Gates's Diary | Cultural Close-Ups | Retelling the Story |
What Is Africa to Me?
More History Sites on PBS Online:
http://www.pbs.org/neighborhoods/history/
...and check out the other "Neighborhoods" for more
ideas!
For example, explore PBS Online sites on Health & Religion:
http://www.pbs.org/neighborhoods/body/
2. Biographical-Bibliographical-Critical
Resources
(e.g. for study of a literary author; critical -
theoretical approaches, teaching topics, questions or issues:)
"Michelle Cliff" (by Cora
Agatucci)
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/wr316/spring2002/Cliff.htm
Features:
Biography (of the author) | Major Themes & Issues (in the
author's literary works) | Critical Reception (of the author's
works) | Bibliography (of works by the author, of recommended
critical works about the author, and including all Works Cited in the
features).
Voices from the Gaps: Women
Writers of Color (Dept. of English &
Program in American Studies, Univ. of Minnesota)
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/
Model Entry: Author Page - see
"Contributing to Voices from the Gaps":
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/projectintro.html
"Note to Educators: Using the Voices from the Gaps Project in the
Multicultural Classroom":
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/documents/ForTeachers.html
African Authors: Chinua Achebe
(by Cora Agatucci, Humanities 211: Cultures and
Literatures of Africa, Central Oregon Community College)
[Entry "splash" Page]
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/achebe.htm
Explore these Features:
Achebe
Bibliography | Achebe
in His Own Words: Quotations, Interviews, Works |Achebe's
Things Fall Apart: Reading & Study Questions |
Achebe
WWW Links
Related Achebe resources in Cora's Hum 211
course website:
African Storytelling:
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/afrstory.htm
African Timelines: History, Orature, Literature & Film - Table
of Contents: http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/timelines/htimelinetoc.htm
HUM 211 Online Course Pack:
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/coursepack/index.htm
HUM 211 Assignments - Table of Contents:
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/assignments/index.htm
Postcolonial Studies at Emory
University (Deepika Bahri, ed.)
http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/
Explore these Features:
Introduction | Authors | Theorists | Terms
& Issues
"Going Online to Develop
and Communicate Student Perspectives on World and Multicultural Writers"
(Kathleen Walsh and Cora Agatucci, Central Oregon Community College, Bend,
OR).
Web Conference Presentation.
Home Page: http://www.cocc.edu/ASA/
Explore these Features:
Table of Contents - Introduction |
Multicultural Goals: What are the goals of Multicultural Education? |
Multicultural Resources & WWW Links |
Did our project meet key goals of multicultural education?
Form: What is the relationship between the invitingly
open form of web writing and our project outcomes? Parts I, II, &
III
Curriculum: How can project outcomes be duplicated or
expanded within the limits and interstices of our curriculum?
Showcase of Hum 299 Student Websites
3. Literary Explication,
Study Guides & Other Teaching
Resources
“The Web of
Meaning in Moby Dick”
(Randy Bass, American Traditions, Georgetown
Univ.)
[Hypertext
Literary Explication of literary works or branching themes]:
http://www.georgetown.edu/bassr/Moby.htm
African Authors: Tsitsi Dangarembga & Nervous Conditions
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/dangarembga.htm
Heart of Darkness [by Joseph Conrad] Study Guide:
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng109/heartSG.htm
Faust [by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Study
Guide:
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng109/faustSG.htm
Paul Scott & Jewel in the Crown
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng339/coursepack/PaulScott.htm
Jewel in the Crown Study Guide Index:
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng339/coursepack/JewelSGtoc.htm
The Making of The Jewel in the Crown. Masterpiece Theatre Series based on
Paul Scott's Raj Quartet. Granada Television. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983.
[Summary, Excerpts & Comment
by Cora Agatucci]: http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng339/coursepack/makingJewel.htm
Raj
= Hindi for "rule," refers to British colonial rule over
India.
...India
Timeline 3: The British Raj (late 17th - early 20th c.)
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum210/tml/IndiaTML/indiatml3.htm
...India
Timeline 4: Independence of India & Pakistan (20th c)
& India Timeline Sources
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum210/tml/IndiaTML/indiatml4.htm
...Part of Cora Agatucci's HUM 210 Asian
Timelines of Literary & Cultural History:
Table
of Contents: http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum210/tml/asianTML.htm
Wuthering Heights [by Emily Bronte] Study
Guide:
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng109/whSG.htm
Red Sorghum Study Guide:
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum210/redsorghum.htm
HAMLET, PRINCE OF
DENMARK (ca. 1600-1601) by William Shakespeare (1564-1616):
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/wr316/hamlet.htm
Afrique, je te plumerai
(Hum 211 & Eng 458 African film) - Study Guide:
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/Afrique.htm
I Is a Long Memoried Woman
Introduction: http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/coursepack/womanintro.htm
Film Notes - Table of Contents:
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/coursepack/womanTOC.htm
Film Basics: Learning to "Read" and
Write About Film:
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/wr316/HOpast/filmbasics.htm
Film Adaptation of Literature:
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng104/filmadaptation.htm
Timelines of Asia: Literary & Cultural
History - India | China | Japan
Table of Contents:
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum210/tml/asianTML.htm
Epic Genre & Mahabharata:
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum210/epic.htm
The Epic of Sundjata:
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/coursepack/sundjata.htm
More Example Course Materials & Assignments
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To begin at home (i.e. with COCC faculty course webs that are freely
accessible), see:
Cora Agatucci's Classes: http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/
Stacey Donohue's Classes: http://www.cocc.edu/sdonohue/
Links: General Websources for Literary
& Cultural Studies
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng109/links.htm
Student Seminar Work (ENG 109)
Romanticism & William Blake | Literary Realism & Gustave
Flaubert's "A Simple Heart":
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng109/e109seminars.htm
Women's Studies Historical
Timeline:
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/ws101/wstml/wstmlTOC.htm
Women's History Month (feature):
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/ws101/whistymonth.htm
