Course Topic Outline
Click on a topic to see readings, in-class exercises, and other materials associated with that class meeting.
Generally, Mondays will be lecture/discussion sessions (meeting in SQH 1117) and Wednesdays will be (usually, not always) hands-on workshop sessions (meeting in SQH 2112 unless otherwise announced). Most of the heavier reading assignments are due on Monday. Note, however, that you will often still have some reading assigned for a Wednesday, even if it’s a workshop. Some of the readings are only available online. These are as much a part of the class as the printed readings, and you can expect to be examined and otherwise held responsible for them. Please bring your books to class.
Abbreviations used: CP = course pack.
08/30/04: Logging On
09/01/04: Poetry and Checkers
09/08/04: Loops and Branches
09/13/04: Labyrinths (Ergodic Literature I)
09/15/04: HTML 1.0
09/22/04: HTML 2.0
10/04/04: Spatial Texts: Interactive Fiction 1.0
10/06/04: Spatial Texts: Interactive Fiction 2.0
10/11/04: Social Texts: MUDs and MOOs 1.0
10/13/04: Social Texts: MUDs and MOOs 2.0
10/18/04: Catch-up and Exam Review
10/20/04: MIDTERM EXAM
10/25/04: Writing and/as Code 1.0
10/27/04: Writing and/as Code 2.0
11/01/04: Writing and/as Code 3.0
11/03/04: Writing and/as Code 4.0
11/08/04: Hypertext Before the Web 1.0
11/10/04: Hypertext Before the Web 2.0
11/15/04: Writing for the Web 1.0
11/17/04: Writing for the Web 2.0
11/29/04: Emergent Literature and Smart Texts 1.0
12/01/04: Emergent Literature and Smart Texts 2.0
12/06/04: Reprise: The Book (as) Machine
12/08/04: Logging Off (Robert Pinsky Lecture)
12/15/04: FINAL EXAM
