| COURSE SCHEDULE INFORMATION |
Tentative Schedule:
Note: I may need to adjust this syllabus and course schedule to accommodate pedagogical needs as they arise. We will discuss all changes as a class and the new schedule will be reflected on our course blog.
| Tuesday
1/24 |
Class: Introductions. Syllabus.
Home: Buy books. Bring in one personal artifact of your choice. |
| Thursday
1/26 |
Class: Artifacts
Home: Read “Always Already New” by Lisa Gitelman http://www.mediastudies.asia/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Gitelman-Always-Already-New-Intro-excerpts.pdf |
| Tuesday
1/31 |
Class: Close reading.
Home: Read Denis Baron, Chapter 5, “Writing on Clay.” |
| Thursday
2/2 |
Class: The clay tablets.
Home: Read The Medium is the Message up to page 43. |
| Tuesday
2/7 |
Class: Communication 101: https://youtu.be/byyQtGb3dvA
Home: Read The Medium is the Message up to page 100. |
| Thursday
2/9 |
Class: McLuhan http://www.marshallmcluhanspeaks.com/sayings/1970-the-medium-is-the-message/ and DJ Spooky https://soundcloud.com/mcluhan2011eu/dj-spooky-marshall-mcluhan
Home: Finish The Medium is the Message Extract one quote from McLuhan you find most relevant and analyze it in a short blog post. |
| Tuesday
2/14 |
Class: History of printing. Timeline.
Home: Read Elizabeth Einstein. Choose terms and research. |
| Thursday
2/16 |
Class: Guest visit from Karl Stolley.
Home: Read Elizabeth Einstein. |
| Tuesday
2/21 |
Class: Work on Timeline.
Home: post extended timeline descriptions by class time on Thursday with tag “timeline” and the name of your invention. (see http://stevensonenglish.org/eng38101-licastro17/2017/02/13/timeline-assignment/) |
| Thursday
2/23 |
Class: Letterpress demo. Meet in MAC 268 (OMN second floor) at 3:30pm and stay until 6pm.
Home: Finish timeline. All information must be in the spreadsheet by Sunday at noon. Write a reflection on your letterpress experience. Post a 3 paragraph reflection describing your experience and telling us what you learned before 3/2. Use tag “letterpress.” |
| Tuesday
2/28 |
Class: Present timeline
Home: Revise timeline entries. |
| Thursday
3/2 |
Class: Manuscripts and transcriptions: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/px8rhbwbie6ziq0/AAAydf3XxXHz3BBqMDDrpfzCa?dl=0.
Home: Finish transcription. Read and annotate article by Andrew Stauffer. https://www.dropbox.com/s/iphs2u15ikm93to/Stauffer.19CArchive.ERR.pdf?dl=0 |
| Tuesday
3/7 |
Class: Annotations. Annotate this article: https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/making-reading-visible-social-annotation-with-lacuna-in-the-humanities-classroom/
Using https://hypothes.is/ Home: Post three questions for Andrew Stauffer with category “blog” and tag “Stauffer”: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ykvwcwi3ax8yl0o/BookTraces.Introduction.flyer.pdf?dl=0 |
| Thursday
3/9 |
Class: Book Traces event!
Home: Post a 3-5 paragraph reflection using tag “Book Traces”. |
| 3/14- 3/16 | Spring Break. No classes. |
| Tuesday
3/21 |
Class: Digitizing books. Google N-Gram.
Home: Read Denis Baron, Chapter 12, “From Pencils to Pixels.” |
| Thursday
3/23 |
Class: Cancelled.
Home: Read Denis Baron, Chapter 12, “From Pencils to Pixels.” |
| Tuesday
3/28 |
Class: OCR visit from Hannah Alpert.
Home: Read Matthew Kirschenbaum, Track Changes, Introduction. |
| Thursday
3/30 |
Class: EEBO. ECCO. NINES. Go to Career event on 3/31 and write reflection post.
Home: Read Matthew Kirschenbaum, Track Changes. |
| Tuesday
4/4 |
Class: Media Archeology.
Home: Read https://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/01/tale-of-the-floppy-disks-how-jonathan-larson-created-rent/?_r=0 and https://dougreside.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/larson.pdf |
| Thursday
4/6 |
Class: Introduction to Digital Humanities. Doing DH in a literature class. http://bit.ly/2g5jWj4
Home: Read the introduction by Matt Gold and Lauren Klein http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/debates/text/93 and http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/debates/text/48 and leave a comment. |
| Tuesday
4/11 |
Class: Virtual reality.
Home: Read the chapter by Tanya Clement http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/debates/text/96 and comment. And read: http://www.wivr.net/marie-claire-features-vr-female-mafia/ |
| Thursday
4/13 |
Class: How can you do DH? The Tessera. http://thetessera.org/horsley/#/portal
http://tesseragame.wikia.com/wiki/The_Tessera_ARG_Wiki Home: Brainstorm ideas. Read Kari Kraus : https://eng15108fall15.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/kraus_design.pdf |
| Tuesday
4/18 |
Class: Final Project. Zotero.
Home: Develop pitch. Read http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-3/where-material-book-culture-meets-digital-humanities-by-sarah-werner/ |
| Thursday
4/20 |
Class: Pitch ideas.
Home: Annotated bibliography on Zotero. |
| Tuesday
4/25 |
Class: Guests from SoD. Project design activity.
Home: Final. |
| Thursday
4/27 |
Class: Visit to SoD 124 for 3D printing at 3:15pm.
Home: Final. |
| Tuesday
5/2 |
Class: Conferences.
Home: Final. |
| Thursday
5/4 |
Class: Final presentations.
Home: Finish final. Post revised version no later than Friday at midnight. |