The Cassandra Project is a project to design and place on line a web site to make Krista Wolf's Cassandra  fully accessible to first year students in the Arts and Sciences Honors Program.  The site seeks to allow readers of the Wolf novel to encounter her "revisionist" look at the starting point of the Greco-Roman tradition (the Trojan War) armed with a complete hypertext commentary/sourcebook.  The site will provide on-line access to these resources to allow readers to make their own comparisons and draw their own conclusions about the novel.  The site does not propose to provide interpretative commentary about the novel.

So far the seminar has worked on the project for two weeks:

• February 28, Introduction of the concept and preliminary discuss;
• March 12, Discussion of the taxonomy and structure of the site;
• March 14, Group Meetings in O'Neill 246.
• Week of March18-22
• Dante web site jury, March 25-26
• Thursday, April 14 update

The seminar now (from March 17)  operates as a research seminar for the next two weeks.

• The three Cassandra groups will  work on their own to assemble and post three separate sites, working independently.
• Gasson 001 will be available on Tuesday, March 19 and Thursday, March 21 from 11:30 to 1:30.
• The room includes scanning equipment, Dreamweaver software, and other potentially useful equipment.
• The three separate sites will be presented and evaluated on Tuesday, March 26 at 12 noon.
• This presentation is the equivalent of the rough draft of a research paper.
• The three parts will be assembled thereafter according to a plan the seminar devises on March 26.

The three working groups:

• MN, RN, JP, and BR (drama);
• AH, BG and MT (epic);
• EC, BW, AM, DP, CA (art).

Evaluation

• The final evaluation of the Cassandra web site will be done by first year students.   How useful is the site to them?  How well does it accomplish the purpose of providing resources for first year students to understand the relationship between the Krista Wolf novel and the Honors Program curriculum.
• A test group of first year students will read the novel and evaluate the web site using an on-line questionnaire.
• The results will be collated and become the basis of an appraisal of the site by the instructor; the usefulness and quality of this final product will be the basis for course grades as in a graduate research seminar.
• The date for the launch of the site to make it available to first year student evaluators is April 4 (tentative).  Updated launch date, Tuesday, April 16.
• The schedule proposed here by the project manager is subject to revision.