NOTE: For more specific bibliographic information about the readings referred to below, consult the bibliography in the course packet or see Readings.
| January 26
| Introduction to course Framing the Issues: Reading, Writing, and Technology Readings: Kaplan, "E-Literacies" |
| February 2
| What is "The Late Age of Print" anyway? Readings: Bolter, Writing Space |
| February 9
| Writing as a (Subversive) Technology Introductory MOO session with Jeff Galin's class at CSUSB Readings: Plato, Phaedrus; Boone |
| February 16
| No Class (Presidents Day) |
| February 23 | Writing Redefined: What is Hypermedia anyway? MOO session with Jeff Galin's class at CSUSB Readings: Bolter, revisited; Grusin; Joyce; Moulthrop, "The Shadow of an Informand: An Experiment in Hypertext Rhetoric" |
| March 2 | Writing, Cognition, and Culture Readings: McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy |
| March 9 | The Printing Press and Other Agents of Change Readings: Eisenstein (both), Barlow |
| March 16 | No Class (spring break) |
| March 23 | Reading, Literature, and the Printing Press Readings: Kernan, Samuel Johnson and the Impact of Print |
| March 30 | English Studies Redefined? Short Paper due Readings: Lanham, The Electronic Word; Landow |
| April 6 | Technologies, Literacies, and Cyber-Politics Proposal for Course Project due Readings: Ohmann; Harraway, A Cyborg Manifesto; Thompson, "Speaking of the MOOn: Textual Realities and the Body Electric" |
| April 13 | Hypermedia Revisited Readings: Taylor and Saarinen, Imagologies; Kolb, Socrates in the Labyrinth |
| April 20 | Technological "Progress" Reconsidered Readings: Tuman, Word Perfect; Brent, "Rhetorics of the Web |
| April 27 | Literacy, Technology, and Pedagogy Readings: Apple; Kaplan; Hawisher and Selfe |
| May 4 | Presentations on Course Projects |
| May 6 | Course Projects due |
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