Course
Description
This interdisciplinary course will explore the problems facing readers
at the beginning of the 21st century in the context of old problems and
solutions. In order to understand how reading will change with new
technologies, we will consider how we read today and how we have read in
the past, with an emphasis on both secular and sacred texts. Throughout
the course, we will take advantage of new technologies to study these issues;
we will read texts on the web and on CD-ROM (including digital versions
of early books and manuscripts), and students will be invited to publish
their work on the web. Our goal is to teach our students how to be
self-reflective readers, conscious of the assumptions we make about texts
today, in order to prepare them to be readers--and writers--of different
kinds of texts in the future.
See our links page for a preview of some of
the texts and ideas we'll be discussing. You can find out about the
requirements the course fulfills here.
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