All students are expected to have active e-mail accounts and basic Internet skills. You can activate your e-mail account and related Internet privileges by going to the Vogelback Computing Center, 2129 Campus Drive, during regular working hours. If using these electronic resources presents any difficulties, please inform the instructors.

This course will use Electronic Resources in several major ways:

• All course information, including the syllabus and both reading and writing assignments, will be posted on the web pages for this course. There will be no print version of this information, although students may wish to print out copies of certain key pages for their convenience.
  
• Students in the course are required to subscribe to chicago, the electronic listserv for the course, which will also be used to distribute important information and to conduct a discussion of questions and issues regarding the readings and lectures that arise during the quarter. For more information on this listserv, including how to subscribe to it, please consult the Getting Started page.
  
• Within this website are pages that make use of ClassACT, web software developed at Northwestern. ClassACT is a very powerful tool for viewing and managing digitized materials through units of information called "Notebooks," and for linking faculty and students in the class to each other. More information on ClassACT, how to use it, and how it will be employed in this course, will be discussed in class.
  
• This site includes a page called Chicago Links , which is a compendium of websites developed at Northwestern and elsewhere of relevance to the study of Chicago history and culture, as well as numerous other areas of interest to American Studies majors.
  
• As students in this course produce their own work, we shall be using the web as a way to share work with each other.
  

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Last Updated: 01/05/99