| # | Meeting Date | Topic | Assignment |
| I. The Founding Generation, 1889-1914 | |||
| January 26 | An Introduction to Historical Research: What’s a Primary Source? |
Some preliminary discussion as to your research interests | |
| 2 | February 2 | Review of the Secondary Literature: Who’s To Be Believed? |
A review of two secondary accounts of Barnard’s history |
| 3 | February 9 | Spreadsheets and Historical Data: The Uses of Counting |
Create a data set and present a quantitative hypothesis |
| 4 | February 16 | Location, Location, Location: You Are Where You Live? |
Create a map and present ageographical hypothesis |
| 5 | February 23 | Provisional Findings, I | Your 1st Contribution to a New Barnard History |
| II. The Turbulent Generation, 1964-1989 | |||
| 6 | March 2 | The Horse’s Mouth: Prospect & Pitfalls of Oral History |
Identify a possible Barnard interviewee |
| 7 | March 9 | Before the Fall: The McIntosh Prelude |
Schedule and prepare script for interview |
| Spring Break | |||
| 8 | March 23 | Video renderings of Columbia 1968 | Conduct interview |
| 9 | March 30 | The Class of 1971 Oral History | Submit transcript and analysis |
| 10 | April 6 | Provisional Findings, II | Your Second Contribution to a New Barnard History |
| III. Your Barnard | |||
| 11 | April 13 | On Your own | |
| 12 | April 20 | 1st Set of Presentations/Postings | |
| 13 | April 27 | 2nd Set of Presentations/Postings | |
| 14 | May 4 | 3rd Set of Presentations/Postings |