Everyone knows Marco Polo went to China, but few realize that his travel stories made almost no impact at all on Italian literature, culture or geography before the High Renaissance. What did medieval Italians really know about the world around them before Columbus "discovered" America?

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Reading and analysis of selected traditional European and African folk narratives and of contemporary stories for children from picturebooks to chapter books. Addresses questions of personal and social identity, of narrative presentation and response, of power and authority in changing environments focused on the child. (Gen.Ed. AL)

This class will explore the major theoretical concepts and debates that have emerged across the various interdisciplinary fields of digital cultural studies, including the digital humanities and new media studies. The basic question this course will answer is how do we study digital culture, texts, platforms, and communities like Facebook, YouTube comments, video games, or memes and Black Twitter?