| GNEL 650 Graduate Liberal Studies Program |
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Wesleyan University Fall 2001 Michael Roy, mroy@wesleyan.edu 7-9:30 Mondays
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19 November: I publicly promise here to get papers/feedback posted before next class or I buy everyone's hot chocolate. 5 November: For next week, review Landow. For each chapter, pick out a quote that you either strongly agree or disagree with. Post the quote and your reaction to it on the webboard.
29 October: I showed up to chat but nobody was there. It is now 7:40 and I am giving up. What happened? Or did I get the time wrong? Don't forget to hand your papers in. And finish Landow for next week. 22 October: Chat room now open! 21 October: I have put the Fish and Johnson readings within the webboard (under hypertext) as some of you seem to be having trouble with Eres. 17 October: The Fish and Johnson readings are now available via e-reserves at http://eres.olin.wesleyan.edu/coursepage.asp?cid=66 . You need a password to access them. The password is posted on the webboard. 1 October For those of you who haven't yet signed up for your website critiques or your technology presentations, please do so. Someone needs to do a technology presentation NEXT WEEK. For those who have signed up, please be sure to update the topics/urls as you figure out what they will be. 23 September: New! Tag of the Week section for review of class technical materials. 22 September: Lots of trouble using the proxy server? See if you can login to IMP . If you can't, then you don't know your email password and won't be able to use the proxy server. (After talking it over with a librarian, I decided NOT to copy all of the readings off of the Muse site to make them available to you.) 19 September: Dreaming Arnold is UP at http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/ioa/arnold/arnoldwebpages/arnold.htm 19 September: Webboard postings now due on Sunday at 6 p.m. to give everyone a chance to read/respond before class.
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Hypertext, the fundamental technology of the World Wide Web, has given rise to an explosion in reading and writing by the general
public and of new types of publications by nearly all types of cultural, educational, and commercial enterprises. Its electronic,
multimedia, and non-linear nature challenges us to think more deeply about what is meant by the terms reading and writing when
applied to the web.
We will explore and critique the technical and social underpinnings of this provocative new writing space, spending time reading and
writing about hypertext, and also producing hypertext ourselves. In this course, students will learn the skills necessary to both create
and critique sites on the Web. Students will learn basic Web authoring techniques and participate in regular "readings" of Web sites
and technology reports. Through these exercises, we will develop a critical vocabulary for defining the changes in publication and
communications methodologies, borrowing the tools and rhetorics of various critical and cultural theories to provide frameworks for
making sense of this new medium.
Readings will include William Mitchell’s City of Bits, James O’Donnell’s
Avatars of the Word, and George Landow’s Hypertext 2.0, as well as myriad examples of on-line writing drawn from academic, commercial, and personal publications. We will also
explore various markup languages including HTML, SGML, and XML, and the various browser technologies that allow one to read such texts. Requirements include weekly reaction papers, participation in on-line discussion, class presentations, and
participation in the creation of a group-edited Web site. Students should be comfortable with basic word processing and internet
use.
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