Comparative Literature 692E - S-ExploringNewMedia/DigitalHum
Fall
2013
01
3.00
Laszlo Dienes
TU 4:00PM 6:30PM
UMass Amherst
39586
The seminar will set several parallel goals:
A. to explore the new media arts and digital culture in general to familiarize students with the major artists and artworks emerging in this area of artistic and intellectual activity;
B. to study and discuss some of the critical and theoretical issues raised by the digital medium in literature and the visual and performing arts (the digital humanities);
C. to learn to use "hands on" some of the new digital tools (both software and hardware) for scholarship (databases for research, production of electronic mss. for conference presentation and publication, "how to write a hyperpaper? and why?") and for teaching (preparation of electronic, multimedia class materials, lectures, etc., on the web or for Moodle, "how to present and teach information in the digital age?");
D. to collectively prepare to TA in, and work on, an existing undergraduate course on Digital Culture: students will be invited to comment on, alter, expand parts of this existing course, and focus on their special interests that they will have an opportunity to include and teach in this class (or in a future class of their own). Additional areas to be included depending on student interest and experience.
A. to explore the new media arts and digital culture in general to familiarize students with the major artists and artworks emerging in this area of artistic and intellectual activity;
B. to study and discuss some of the critical and theoretical issues raised by the digital medium in literature and the visual and performing arts (the digital humanities);
C. to learn to use "hands on" some of the new digital tools (both software and hardware) for scholarship (databases for research, production of electronic mss. for conference presentation and publication, "how to write a hyperpaper? and why?") and for teaching (preparation of electronic, multimedia class materials, lectures, etc., on the web or for Moodle, "how to present and teach information in the digital age?");
D. to collectively prepare to TA in, and work on, an existing undergraduate course on Digital Culture: students will be invited to comment on, alter, expand parts of this existing course, and focus on their special interests that they will have an opportunity to include and teach in this class (or in a future class of their own). Additional areas to be included depending on student interest and experience.