This class will teach you how to surf (the Internet) and about the various ways that English studies have been transformed over the last few decades. Starting with some basic close-reading and analysis skills (aided by annotation at COVE Studio), we will then explore how those skills have been increasingly applied to new areas of inquiry (tv, film, culture, critical theory, and politics). Throughout, we will employ new digital tools that change the way we approach our subjects of inquiry, including Web annotation, timeline-building, gallery-building and GIS mapping. As we proceed, we will consider the nature of English studies: What is an English department and how does it relate to the rest of the university? What can you do with an English degree? Why is it necessary to fight for English in an increasingly STEM-oriented world? On July 19th, 1848, religious and political reformers met in the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York for the first formal convention on the subject of women's rights. 300 people, both men and women, attended the two day convention where eleven different resolutions on women's rights were discussed. The only one to not pass was the right to vote for women.
There were five main women who organized the event: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the driving organizer of the convention; Lucretia Mott, a Quaker preacher known for her activism in anti-slavery, women's rights and religious reform; Mary M'Clintock, daughter to Quaker anti-slavery and women's rights activists; Martha Coffin Wright, Lucretia Mott's sister and an abolitionist that ran a station on the Underground Railroad; and Jane Hunt, a Quaker activist. Stanton, after being frustrated with her role as a women, convinced the other women in organizing the convention and writing its main mainfesto, the Declaration of...
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