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It is true in any case that self-love and grandiose self-esteem are the
most general psychological characteristics of an outstanding teacher.
-- Norman F. Cantor
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Courses
Fall 2000
- Electron Lit: Hypertext Theory and Practice. The dawn of the computer
age has seen the emergence of a new genre of literature, hypertext -- nonlinear
fiction and poetry created specifically to be read on a computer. Each hypertext
is unique: The author not only provides the "text" (which can include
graphics and sounds) to be "read," but also designs the software
means by which the reader navigates the work. In truth, hypertext authors
are making their own books -- and their own reading technology.
Spring 2000
- Electron Lit: Hypertext Theory and Practice. The dawn of the computer
age has seen the emergence of a new genre of literature, hypertext -- nonlinear
fiction and poetry created specifically to be read on a computer. Each hypertext
is unique: The author not only provides the "text" (which can include
graphics and sounds) to be "read," but also designs the software
means by which the reader navigates the work. In truth, hypertext authors
are making their own books -- and their own reading technology.
- Writing Online: Cybertext and the New Media. The advent of the World
Wide Web has made possible a new form of self-expression, cybertext: nonlinear
fiction, poetry, memoir, and creative nonfiction created specifically to be
read online. In this class, we explore and experiment with all kinds of online
writing -- from the simplest e-mail exchange to sprawling Web fictions such
as Mark Amerika's Grammatron.
In between, we check out threaded discussions, newsgroup rants and raves,
interactive stories, MUDs, MOOs, and other emerging forms. Each student contributes
to a Web site for the class and presents a final cybertext project of h/er
own devising. Online conferences are held with at least two cybertext authors.
Fall 1999
- Electron Lit: Hypertext Theory and Practice. The dawn of the computer
age has seen the emergence of a new genre of literature, hypertext -- nonlinear
fiction and poetry created specifically to be read on a computer. Each hypertext
is unique: The author not only provides the "text" (which can include
graphics and sounds) to be "read," but also designs the software
means by which the reader navigates the work. In truth, hypertext authors
are making their own books -- and their own reading technology.
- Writing Online: Cybertext and the New Media. The advent of the World
Wide Web has made possible a new form of self-expression, cybertext: nonlinear
fiction, poetry, memoir, and creative nonfiction created specifically to be
read online. In this class, we explore and experiment with all kinds of online
writing -- from the simplest e-mail exchange to sprawling Web fictions such
as Mark Amerika's Grammatron.
In between, we check out threaded discussions, newsgroup rants and raves,
interactive stories, MUDs, MOOs, and other emerging forms. Each student contributes
to a Web site for the class and presents a final cybertext project of h/er
own devising. Online conferences are held with at least two cybertext authors.
Spring 1999
- Electron Lit: Hypertext Theory and Practice. The dawn of the
computer age has seen the emergence of a new genre of literature, hypertext
-- nonlinear fiction and poetry created specifically to be read on a computer.
Each hypertext is unique: The author not only provides the "text"
(which can include graphics and sounds) to be "read," but also
designs the software means by which the reader navigates the work. In truth,
hypertext authors are making their own books -- and their own reading technology.
Spring 1998
- Theatre in Ancient Greece. An exploration of the first great
period of Western Drama, beginning with the cosmic tragedies and worldly
comedies of 5th-century Athens, then following its development as it moved
into the Hellenistic "Kosmopolis" created by the conquests of
Alexander the Great.
Fall 1997
- Introduction to Theatre Studies. Not an introduction to theatre,
but to theatre studies -- in other words, to the various ways we
think about theatre, and the ways we use theatre to think about us.
Spring 1997
- Introduction to Theatre Studies. Not an introduction to theatre,
but to theatre studies -- in other words, to the various ways we
think about theatre, and the ways we use theatre to think about us.
Fall 1996
- Introduction to Theatre Studies. Not an introduction to theatre,
but to theatre studies -- in other words, to the various ways we
think about theatre, and the ways we use theatre to think about us.
Summer 1996
- The Modern Dramatist: Poet, Prophet, Priest concentrates on
the works of the four founders of Modern European Drama: Ibsen, Strindberg,
Chekhov, and Shaw. In the course of our investigations, other revolutions
will be encountered - those of Marx, Darwin, and Freud - which shaped the
modern view of humanity.
Spring 1996
- Classical & Medieval Drama examines the cosmic tragedies
and worldly comedies of the Greeks and Romans, then the rebirth of theatre
in the religious dramas of medieval Europe.
- Renaissance & Enlightenment surveys theatre and dramatic
literature beginning in the Renaissance of fifteenth-century Europe and
concludes with the triumph of the middle class on the eve of the modern
era.
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