3:00 pm - 5:50 pm Tuesday
State 335
Schedule
First Week
Jan 11
Intro
Week 2
Jan 18
What is Literacy?
Orality and Literacy
Week 3
Jan 25
Tales of Literacy
Literacy and American Lives
Week 4
February 1
Whose Literacy?
The Avant-Garde
English Composition as a Happening
Week 5
Proposal Presentations
February 8
Doing technology
Week 6
February 15
Visuality
Camera Lucida
Week 7
February 22
Entertainment/Celebrity
Dead Elvis
Week 8
March 1
Music
DJ Spooky/Kodwo Eshun
Week 9
March 8
Technology
Medium is the Massage
Week 10
Spring Break
Mon Mar 14 - Sat Mar 19
Week 11
March 22
Research
Heuretics
Week 12
March 29
Tech day. Doing mystory
Week 13
April 5
Tech day.
Week 14
April 12
Presentations
Week 15
April 19
Presentations
April 25 Course Ends
1. Proposal (100 pts). Write a formal proposal for either:
a. A draft of a publishable essay which theorizes a digital writing issue. Identify which journal(s) your essay will be appropriate for submission.
b. A conference paper to be delivered at a specified conference
The proposal is approximately 5 pages in length and details objectives, context, research question(s), and audience.
2. Seminar paper/conference paper (200 pts). Using your proposal as a guide, write a seminar paper intended for potential publication or as a conference paper.
Both - or either - of these projects can engage the digital directly through a website, Flash presentation, or some other means. They may be as performative as the texts we read, or they may take up issues relevant to the texts we read. The options are yours. We will learn some basic HTML in this course, and each of you will receive a web space. What you do with that space will depend on the initiatives you take.
3. Presentations (100 points/50 points each) You will give two presentations. One presentation will be on a class reading. One presentation will be on your final project. In principle, they will be around 20 minutes each, hopefully interactive, and informative. Time will also be allocated for discussion afterwards. Presentations are not summaries nor are they readings of a paper.They may also (and you are encourage to do so) be on the Web.
4. Email (100 pts)
You are required to post at least 2 emails each week on the class listserv: 7020@lists.wayne.edu. Some posts you will make in response to specific assignments given in class. Other posts you will make on your own accord. The listserv will help us talk about the readings and the work we are doing. It is an open forum for collaboration and idea sharing. Frivolous emails with no substance (such as writing only "I like/don't like this reading" or "class was good" with no reason or justification) don't count. No personal grievances or attacks on the instructor or classmates will be tolerated. If such attacks occur, the guilty part will be removed from the listserv and given a 0 for email.
The listserv archives are at: http://www.wayne.edu/archives/7020.html.
5. Participation (100 pts)
Come to class ready to participate. Take notes on readings and bring ideas to discuss. This class is not a lecture class, so your participation is mandatory. Pedagogy is a collaborative experience, and your participation will strengthen that experience for yourself and others.
Grading Scale
A 550-600pts
B 500-550pts
C 450-500pts
D 400-450pts
E 400 -
