Dates: |
Reading & Assignment Schedule
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Sept. 7th: Introduction to Course |
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Introductions and review of syllabus and course requirements.
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Discuss perceptions of "literature" and the "culture of cyberspace."
Computer Lab 302 (@ 7:30ish to register on class bulletin board)
Weekly Response #1 Assigned (due online by 6 p.m. next Thursday): Go to the class bulletin board and respond to the question that will be posted online. |
Sept. 14th: Artificial Bodies |
Response Assignment #1 Due Online
Reading Due (to be discussed in class):
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Sept. 21st: (Re) Constructing the Self / Imagining a New World
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Response Assignment #2 Due Online
Reading Due (to be discussed in class):
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Selections from Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (online):
Chapter 10 is optional (very short - but would help flow from 9 to 11)
Paper Assigned (draft due to me by email on October 7th if you want feedback) / otherwise, the final paper will be due on October 26th!
Response Assignment #3 has been cancelled; HOWEVER, if you want extra credit, click here and read what's posted under RA#3 on discussion board. |
Sept. 28th:
Cyberspace and its Fictional Origins |
Response Assignment #3 for extra credit due by 6 p.m.
Reading Due (to be discussed in class):
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"Cyberpunk" a short story by Bruce Bethke, 1980 [first time the word "cyberspace" was ever used in print]
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"Johnny Mnemonic" short story by William Gibson [Gibson coined the term "cyberspace," but "Johnny Mnemonic" wasn't first published until 1981 in Omni Magazine)
Film viewing from selections of William Gibson: No Maps for These Territories, 2000 (Documentary w/ interviews with William Gibson).
Weekly Response #4 Assigned (due online by 6 p.m. next Thursday) Go to the class bulletin board and respond to the question that will be posted online. |
Oct. 5th:
Metafiction & Multiform Narratives |
Response Assignment #4 Due Online at 6 p.m.
NO IN-CLASS MEETING tonight, but responses to Weekly Response #4 must be posted by 6 p.m.
Weekly Response #5 Assigned (due online by 6 p.m. next Thursday) Go to the class bulletin board and respond to the question that will be posted online. |
Oct. 12th:
Interacting with the Narrative |
Response Assignment #5 Due Online at 6 p.m.
Reading Due (to be discussed in class):
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Jeanette Winterson, The Powerbook. Vintage: London, 2001. (Read up to page 137)
Paper Drafts due by Sat. 14th if you want feedback!!! |
Oct. 19th:
Cyber-con/textuality |
Reading Due (to be discussed in class):
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Jeanette Winterson, The Powerbook. Vintage: London, 2001. (Read rest of book) |
Oct. 26th: Reading Hypertexts |
PAPER DUE (minimum 5 pages)
Reading Due (to be discussed in class):
Weekly Response #6 Assigned (due online by 6 p.m. next Thursday) Go to the class bulletin board and respond to the question that will be posted online.
Creative Hypertext Projects Assigned (first hypertext draft due Nov. 9th)
* IF ANYONE HAS FLASH DESIGN SKILLS, PLEASE SEE ME. |
Nov. 2nd: Community Hypertexting |
Response Assignment #6 Due Online
Reading Due (to be discussed in class):
- "CityThreads" written by a community of hypertext authors. Visit the greater metropolitan area of Seattle and roam around . . . Click on "Index by Character Names" and pick one. Read some of that character's narrative, jotting down some notes as you go about what you are reading. At whatever point you are comfortable and ready, when you come across another character's name (which will be underlined and linked), go visit that character's narrative and read until you come across yet another character's name. Continue doing this until you have visited at least 5 different characters. Be prepared to discuss this format and some of the characters you visited in class.
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Nov. 9th: Mapping Terrain & Virtual Violations |
Creative Hypertext Draft Narrative Due
(bring 4 paper copies)
Reading Due (to be discussed in class):
Homework due for next week: Edit down your creative hypertext & find words for links as discussed in class |
Nov. 16th: Workshop in class on Creative Hypertext |
Bring in edited copies of your creative hypertext for your group members; be prepared to find links w/ group members. We will workshop project in class. |
Nov. 23rd: BREAK |
THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY!!
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Nov. 30th: Blogging and Blog Fiction |
Creative Hypertext FINAL Narrative Due (each group should have
one final copy)
also, come w/ digital version or be prepared to access
digital version of your narrative for workshopping in computer lab
Reading Due (to be discussed in class):
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Moulthrop, Stuart. "Pax" (play / experience / read)
Creative Project Workshop in Class in Computer Lab 314
Weekly Response #7 Assigned (due online by 6 p.m. next Thursday) Go to the class bulletin board and respond to the question that will be posted online. |
Dec. 7th: Blog Fiction & Creative Non-Fiction |
Response Assignment #8 Due Online
Reading Due (to be discussed in class):
Final Review of Hypertext Projects (Computer Lab 314) |
Dec. 14th: Summary of Semester |
FINAL CREATIVE HYPERTEXT PROJECTS DUE
along w/ 2 page reflection paper
Review of Semester |
