Calendar

This course calendar is subject to change throughout the semester. Click on a date to join the associated Zoom meeting (passcode: 710401) or review its recording.

	Due by 2:00 p.m.	Agenda
Aug. 19		• Introduce course
Aug. 24	• Read The Ghost Map Chapters 1 and 2	• Discuss Victorian approaches to disease, and conditions contributing to epidemics
Aug. 26	• Read Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton (1848) Chapter 6 • Read Investigating Cholera Documents 16 and 17 • Submit Response Paper 1	• Discuss the roles of various discourses in creating disease narrative
Aug. 31	• Read The Ghost Map Chapters 3 and 4	• Discuss Victorian medical practices
Sept. 2	• Read Florence Nightingale's Notes on Nursing Preface, "Notes on Nursing: What it is, and What it is Not," Chapters I and II. • Read Mary Seacole's "The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands" (1857) Chapters 1, 2, 4, and 9 • Listen to 99% Invisible podcast, Episode 433 "Florence Nightingale: Data Viz Pioneer" • Submit Response Paper 2	• Discuss data visualization, audience, and whose contributions matter to history
Sept. 7	• Read The Ghost Map Chapters 5 and 6	• Discuss John Snow's process and obstacles
Sept. 9	• Read Juliana Horatio Ewing's Six to Sixteen (1875) Chapters One and Two • Read Investigating Cholera Documents 18 and 19 • Submit Response Paper 3	• Discuss global components of disease rhetoric and knowledge
Sept. 14	• Read The Ghost Map Chapters 7 and 8	• Discuss issues of theories of disease causation
Sept. 16	• Read Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847) Chapter Ten • Read Investigating Cholera Documents 20, 21, and 22 • Submit Response Paper 4	• Discuss the various stakeholders in public health concerns
Sept. 21	• Read The Ghost Map Epilogue • Read Chinedu Asadu's “Nigeria Faces One of Its Worst Cholera Outbreaks in Years” • Read Erin Heffernan’s “Human Skull from 1800s Found at Central West End Construction Site” • Read Pamela Gilbert’s “Mistakes of Past Epidemics Being Repeated” • Read Betsy Woodruff Swan, Daniel Lippman, and Annie Snider’s “Poop Could Help Stop the Pandemic. Really.” • Read Alvin Finkel's "Plagues and Social Change"	• Discuss implications of Snow's Ghost Map
Sept. 23	• Read Investigating Cholera Documents 26, 27, and 29 • Submit Response Paper 5	• Discuss how Ghost Map narratives survive as historical narratives
Sept. 28	• Review Franco Moretti's Graphs, Maps, Trees (2007), especially the figures	• Participate in library session
Sept. 30	• Read any chapter not by Mortetti in Jonathan Goodwin & John Holbo's Reading Graphs, Maps, Trees (2011) • Review some COVE Editions • Submit Response Paper 6	• Discuss data visualization in the humanities
Oct. 5	• Listen to This American Life podcast, episode 110 “Mapping” • Read Nate Padavick's “How to Make an Illustrated Map in 8 Steps” (2020) • (Here's a .pdf version if you have trouble with the link)	• Introduce Local Health Mapping Project • Introduce Practice Map Analysis
Oct. 7
Oct. 12	• Submit Practice Map Analysis	• Share Practice Map Analyses • Introduce Initial Research Packet
Oct. 14	• Read Colin Gordon's, et al.’s “COVID-19 and the Color Line” (2020) • Read Sarah Vowell's “What Street Names Say About Us” (2020) • Read Jordana Rosenfeld's “How White People Used Tuberculosis to Settle the Southwest” (2020) • Read Jennifer Le Zotte and Jacob Steere-Williams's “Trump's Outrageous Suggestion Comes with a Dark History” (2020)	• Discuss mapping's social, cultural, and historical dimensions
Oct. 19	• Submit Initial Research Packet	• Introduce One-minute Topic Pitch
Oct. 21	• Read Mark Denil's “Practical Map Rhetoric” (2016) • Read Mark Monmonier's How Mapmakers Frame the World (2008) Chapter Nine • Submit Response Paper 7	• Discuss mapping implications
Oct. 26	• Submit One-minute Topic Pitch	• Deliver One-minute Topic Pitches • Select topics and form groups
Oct. 28	• Read Emily Anthes's “‘X’ Marks the Spot" (2021) • Read Caity Weaver's “The Unmitigated Chaos of America’s Attempt at Color-Coded Covid Guidance” (2021) • Review the COVID Data Tracker • Submit Response Paper 8	• Discuss online maps • Begin tool workshop
Nov. 2	• Submit Online Map Design Plan • Submit Data Visualization Design Plan • Submit Tangible Placemarks Design Plan	• Participate in tool workshop
Nov. 4	• Watch this video tutorial for ArcGIS StoryMaps • Review this tutorial for mapping the 1864 cholera outbreak in ArcGIS • Review this StoryMap about the 1854 London cholera outbreak • Review this StoryMap about John Snow's cholera outbreak mapping	• Participate in tool workshop
Nov. 9	• Submit Draft Online Map • Submit Draft Data Visualization • Submit Draft Tangible Placemarks	• Participate in draft workshop • Submit feedback prompts
Nov. 11	• Read Stephanie Adeline, et al.’s “Tracking Coronavirus Around The U.S.” (2012) • Read Lazaro Gamio's “The Workers Who Face the Greatest Coronavirus Risk” (2020) • Read Nicholas LePan's “Visualizing the History of Pandemics” (2020) • Review Elena Mejia's “Unvaccinated America, in Five Charts” • Review Hayleigh Moore's “How Data Visualization Helps Us to Approach the COVID-19 Pandemic” (2020) • Submit Response Paper 9	• Compose rubrics • Discuss data visualizations
Nov. 16	• Read Yessenia Funes's “These Roadside Markers Have a Futuristic Climate Twist” (2019) • Read Yuval Ben-Ami's “How Plagues Shape the Landscape” (2021) • (Here's a .pdf version if you have trouble with the link) • Read through Stolpersteine Home • Read 75000 Stolpersteine Laid (2019) • Submit Response Paper 10	• Discuss placemarks • Respond to draft feedback
Nov. 18	• Watch the three segments from PBS' "Vaccination from the Misinformation Virus," featuring Dr. Sabrina Cherry • Trailer • Health Disparities and Distrust • Historic Trauma	• Participate in visit from Dr. Sabrina Cherry • Address draft questions
Nov. 23	• Submit Online Map • Submit Data Visualization • Submit Tangible Placemarks • Read UNCW Land Acknowledgment	• Introduce Presentation • Introduce Materials Analysis
Nov. 25
Nov. 30	• Prepare Presentation • Submit Materials Analysis	• Introduce Postmortem • Deliver Presentations
Dec. 9 (3:00 p.m.)	• Submit Postmortem (by end of day)	• Address final questions

ENG-313-001 and ENG-390-001 merged (Fall 2021)