Queen Mary & Westfield College, London

Cyber-Lit

Department: English: Literature

Institution: Queen Mary & Westfield College, London
Instructor: Markman Ellis | email
Info:

"Cyber_lit is designed to facilitate interaction with electronic forms of literary creativity, and to disseminate the technical skills needed to produce your own material. The course doesn't stop at the reading list."

Queensland University of Technology

Literature in Teaching

Department: English: Composition and Literature

Institution: Queensland University of Technology
Instructor: Morgan, Wendy
Info:

A fascinating paper on the experience of pre-service teachers encountering hypertext reading and writing: Re-Placing Authority By Desire: Novices Reading And Writing Literary Hypertext.

Rhode Island

Hypertext and Literature

Department: English: Literature

Institution: Rhode Island
Instructor: Shear, edward
Info:

" an advanced undergraduate course that will explore the use of the computer as a technology in the production and teaching of literature."

Richard Stockton College

New Media Studies

Institution: Richard Stockton College
Instructor: Rettberg, Scott
Info: Information

Scott Rettberg, one of the writers for Grand Text Auto has published a list of his courses, which cover topics like postmodernism, hypertext, and new media. Scott Rettberg teaches New Media Studies in the literature program of Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.

Richmond, University of

Writing and Technology

Department: English: writing

Institution: Richmond, University of
Instructor: Essid, Joe | email
Info:

Students will have the choice of writing several short projects, including narrative essays, critical essays, and short fiction--all using electronic media to create and share work. The course will conclude with a final project and a "cyber salon" for presenting the projects.

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

Hypertext Theory and Practice

Department: hypertext: theory

Institution: Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Instructor: Miles, Adrian | email
Info: Information | Syllabus | Projects

This course allows students who have successfully completed a prior introductory hypertext subject to continue their theoretical and practical work in the areas of hypertext theory. The subject will concentrate on a small group of critical writings, while the labs will be used to explore further possibilities of non?linear writing and reading, and hypertext publication.

Many of the issues introduced during HP331 Media Project in 1996 will be elaborated in further detail during the seminars. A solid understanding of several key issues in hypertext theory will be sought, while in lab work students will be able to creatively explore the issues and practices of hypertext, while also producing and publishing a substantive body of work.

Rutgers

Sociology and the Internet

Institution: Rutgers
Instructor: Robert E. Wood
Info: Information | Syllabus

The explosive growth of the internet has provided sociologists both with new tools for carrying out sociological research and with a new subject for sociological investigation. This course is designed both to increase student skills in using the resources of the internet to do sociology and also to explore the emerging field of the sociology of cyberspace.

Rutgers-Newark

From Epic to Hypertext

Institution: Rutgers-Newark
Instructor: Lynch, Jack | email
Info: Information

From Epic to Hypertext, as its name implies, is a course that discusses hypertext within the context of the whole history of literature.

SUNY Plattsburgh

International Trade and Latin American Economics

Institution: SUNY Plattsburgh
Instructor: Hoffman, Pat
Info:

Used Storyspace for economic concepts mapping

San Diego

Computing in the Arts

Institution: San Diego
Instructor: Adriene Jenik
Info: Information

A historical, theoretical, aesthetic, conceptual and technical introduction to the challenges presented by the relatively recent collision of art, culture and computing power.

Showa Women's University (Tokyo)

English as a Second Language

Department: English: ESL

Institution: Showa Women's University (Tokyo)
Instructor: Ryan, Kevin
Info: Information

Hypertext writing with Storyspace is offered as an option to advanced students.

Southamption

Hypertext and Web Technologies

Department: Computer Science

Institution: Southamption
Instructor: Les A. Carr
Info: Information

Based on recent hypertext research and current WWW standards, the course will address the issues of publishing individual documents and sites together with the problems of global information management.

Southern California

History Core Seminar

Department: History

Institution: Southern California
Instructor: Philip J. Ethington
Info: Information

This course has been revised from previous versions to include a serious approach to multimedia history. “Multimedia” is a generic term covering all forms of publication that are not limited to paper-printed distribution. The most common forms are web sites and CD-ROMs.

St. Cloud State

Hypertext

Institution: St. Cloud State
Instructor: Sharon Cogdill
Info: Information | Syllabus

Swinburne University of Technology (Australia)

Electronic Writing

Department: Social and Behavioural Sciences: Theory

Institution: Swinburne University of Technology (Australia)
Instructor: Gye, Lisa | email
Info: Information | Syllabus | Projects

This subject aims to critically examine current theory relating to electronic writing and, in particular, hypertext. Does the embodiment of electronic writing in the form of stand alone hypertext applications or in the form of the World Wide Webchange our relationship as readers to the written word? Does electronic writing, as Mark Poster argues, represent a third stage in the mode of information?"

Syracuse

Introduction to Digital Discourse and Culture

Department: English: writing

Institution: Syracuse
Instructor: Lipson, Carol
Info: | Syllabus

Readings include Patchwork Girl, A Dream with Demons, and Scrutiny in the Great Round.

Syracuse

The Discourse of Cyberspace

Institution: Syracuse
Instructor: Lipson, Carol
Info:

Graduate-level course.

Hypertext Fiction and Poetry Workshop

Department: english: Literature

Institution: Syracuse
Instructor: Parker, J. S. | email
Info: Information | Syllabus

"This course concerns itself with hypertext literature in the two forms it currently exists: 1) The fusion of film, literature, visual art, music, and performance. 2) Polyphonic or multiphonic, achronological form experimentation."

Syracuse University

Advanced Studies in Composition and Cultural Rhetoric: Hypertext Rhetorics

Department: English: Writing

Institution: Syracuse University
Instructor: Brooke, Collin Gifford | email
Info: Information | Syllabus | Projects

Goals for this course include:

Syracuse University

The New Literature: A Hypertext Fiction and Poetry Fiction Workshop

Institution: Syracuse University
Instructor: Stormon
Info:

An online course, offered as by the School of Continuing Education. The primary focus is on the student's development of coherent hypertext multi-media stories or poems-- working to define an art form at the cutting edge. Concepts include ideas about video games as narrative texts, acheiving written structures relevant to hypertext, introducing images, audio and video into writing.

Texas (Arlington)

Topics in Stylistics

Institution: Texas (Arlington)
Instructor: Victor Vitanza
Info: | Syllabus

Dis course will focus on Hypertext & Multimedia. We will concentrate on the rhetoric and stylistics of the image (icon) as word (logos), the word as image. We will be most concerned with something called 'picture theory' or 'the pictorial turn' (Mitchell). (You, know doubt, have heard of the 'linguistic turn' and the 'rhetorical turn' and 'hysterical turn'; we will study the pictorial turn.)

Texas A&M

Hypertext/Hypermedia Systems

Department: Computer Science

Institution: Texas A&M
Instructor: John Leggett
Info: Information

This course is designed to comprehensively cover the area of hypermedia systems. Course content will include the history and importance of hypermedia, theories of hypermedia design, hypermedia and hyperbase modeling, architectures of hypermedia systems, issues of hypermedia interface design and styles of interaction, and future directions in hypermedia systems. Emphasis will be on previous, current, and future research in hypermedia systems.

(The reading list for this course is legendary)

Hypertext/Hypermedia Systems

Department: Computer Science

Institution: Texas A&M
Instructor: Richard Furuta
Info: Information

Texas, The University of

Information Architectures

Department: English: writing

Institution: Texas, The University of
Instructor: Syverson, M. A. | email
Info: Information | Syllabus | Projects

The objectives for students include the following:

Students will be introduced to a new field of study, which has the potential for transforming many real-world writing situations, and which presents new career opportunities.

Students will gain experience with a variety of research methods and strategies for comparative analysis.

Students will explore implications of diverse information structures, including hypertext, text-based virtual reality, the Web, and databases.

Students will experiment with design, for aggregating, organizing, and presenting information.

Students will develop their own projects based on existing challenges in this field.

Texas, University of, at Austin, Computer Writing and Research Lab

HyperRhetoroids: The Rhetoric of Hypertext

Department: English: Literature

Institution: Texas, University of, at Austin, Computer Writing and Research Lab
Instructor: Runnion, J.J. | email
Info: Information | Syllabus | Projects

Explores the world of hypertext/hyperfiction in several "genres" -- Storyspace, and the Internet to mention just two. Readings include Moulthrop's Victory Garden, a course packet. and Online sources. Each student will create four final products, one of which will be in collaboration with their project group: 1.) A creative fiction or non-fiction hypertext in Storyspace that plays with the very different conceptual mapping of ideas possible in the medium; 2.) A rhetorical analysis of a particular 'web' (either Storyspace or the Internet); 3.) An in-depth evaluative argument focusing on one of the hypertext 'genres' we have explored; 4.) A WWW project providing research on hypertext and its relationship to readers, writers, and rhetoric."

Texas/Arlington

Hypertext (E-Journals)

Department: English

Institution: Texas/Arlington
Instructor: Victor Vitanza
Info: | Syllabus

We will be concerned with everything from conception of the 'Zine (with the division of labor or tasks) through formatting it in HTML to placing and maintaining it on a website. I will place the 'Zine on a website for you at UTA. The projects should be seen as on-going ones that students in later classes can continue. If any of you wish to continue informally after the seminar is over, then, you of course will be more than welcome. . .

Trinity/Texas

Reporting on/for the Internet

Institution: Trinity/Texas
Instructor: Robert Huesca
Info: Information

Contemporary theory and practice surrounding journalistic uses of the Internet, especially the World Wide Web. The course will cover a broad range of activities spanning from the philosophical debates of the implications of new electronic media on human communication to hands-on, Web publishing. "What is the nature of the journalistic narrative in the new electronic environment?"

Trondheim (Norway)

French composition (as a foreign language)

Department: French: composition

Institution: Trondheim (Norway)
Instructor: Hovstadt, Unni
Info:

This course produced a report on experience teaching composition and language with hypertext tools contrasted to work with conventional word processors.

University of Glasgow: Humanties Advanced Technology and Information Institute

Investigating Cyberspace

Institution: University of Glasgow: Humanties Advanced Technology and Information Institute
Instructor: McKinney, Peter J.
Info: | Projects

At the Humanties Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII) at the University of Glasgow, Scotland there is a course called 'Investigating Cyberspace'. the course features a quick exercise on creating collaborative hypertext fictions, which has been done for three years now. In the first two years, the class collected sights, sounds and actions in a little journal at two specific times a day for seven days. These were then collected together to make a 'multiple consciousness'. The shape of the fictions were dictated by the students (and also by the shortness of class time) linking perhaps every students diary from Wednesday afternoon, or Tuesday morning.

When the project was done in 2004, the students were given words that developed into separate stories that were then linked by common words.

The purpose is multifarious: understanding hypertext and hypertext fictions, collaboration, the meaning of language and its vagueness, the power of the reader.... (among many other things)

http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/courses/cyber/website/index.html

http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/courses/cyber/website/stream42/website/index.htm

http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/courses/cyber/hypertext/

University of Iowa

Electronic Text Seminar

Institution: University of Iowa
Instructor: Brooks Landon | email
Info: Information | Syllabus | Projects

The Electronic Text Seminar and each of its component units are intended to familiarize students with the salient issues--both practical and theoretical--in electronic writing. Some of the pioneers of and leading experts in hypertext and web-based writing will share their knowledge and experience in a series of presentations and discussions.

How do electronic texts differ from printed texts? How will literature and the notion of 'literacy' change if we shift from print to electronic text, or to fully visual and sound based communications systems? What are the differences between writing, reading, and publishing in electronic versus print formats? How is the field of literary criticism changing with the arrival of electronic formats? Is the current shift in communications technology similar to other historical shifts (such as the change from manuscript to print culture) or are we in the middle of something wholly different?

This is not, however, a course in the production of electronic texts. While the course will require familiarity with and sustained work with the World Wide Web and stand-alone hyperfictions a production of an electronic text or web page is an option for students.

Vanderbilt

Introduction to Literary Theory: Deconstruction, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies

Department: English; theory

Institution: Vanderbilt
Instructor: Clayton, Jay | email
Info: Information | Syllabus | Projects

This course in contemporary literary theory introduces some the principal methods of current criticism, ranging from deconstruction to psychoanalysis, from performance theory to gender and cultural studies. Critical works will be placed in the context of postmodern culture, and hypertext theory, and cyberspace. Ridley Scott's film Blade Runner and Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl, a hypertext reworking of the Frankenstein story, will serve as reference points for the exploration of theoretical issues.

Readings will include representative works by Louis Althusser, Lauren Berlant, Roland Barthes, Judith Butler, Helene Cixous, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Paul Gilroy, Donna Haraway, Fredric Jameson, Jacques Lacan, Ferdinand de Saussure, Patricia Williams, Slavoj Zizek, and others.

Vanderbilt University

Undisciplined Cultures: Literature and Technology after Postmodernism

Department: English: Theory

Institution: Vanderbilt University
Instructor: Clayton, Jay | email
Info: Information | Syllabus | Projects

Graduate English literature course on literature and technology, with units on hypertext:

Literary culture, broadly conceived, has a crucial place in the new information order, as it never did in the older industrial world. As experts in the analysis of information, as people long used to thinking through textual puzzles, deciphering complex verbal messages, responding to semiotic cues of all kinds, people with literary habits of mind have a unique opportunity to transform the emerging information economy.

This course begins with several representative theories of postmodernism, then move to experimental works that challenge the limits of disciplinary thinking. Each text concerns the place of either digital or biomedical technology in culture. Students will watch a movie or multimedia piece every other week, while reading novels and stories by Andrea Barrett, Philip Kerr, Roger McDonald, Richard Powers, Mary Shelley, Neal Stephenson, and Jeanette Winterson; a play by Tom Stoppard; hypertexts by Mary-Kim Arnold and Matthew Derby, Ed Falco, and Shelley Jackson; excerpts from scientific texts by Charles Darwin, Richard Dawkins, Claude Shannon, and Alan Turing; and critical writings by Espen J. Aarseth, Jean Baudrilliard, Jay Bolter and Richard Grusin, Albert Borgmann, N. Katherine Hayles, Donna Haraway, Fredric Jameson, Janet Murray, and the instructor.

Postmodernism and Cyberspace

Department: English: theory

Institution: Vanderbilt University
Instructor: Clayton, Jay | email
Info: Information | Syllabus | Projects

Hypertext is the emerging literature of the World Wide Web. Experimental hypertext novels create linked narratives with no beginnings or ends, literary mazes that can never be read twice in the same way. The possibilities of hypertext composition challenge established notions of literary form, leading critics to argue about how hypertext will transform research, editing, models of reading and writing, and the nature of literacy itself. Novelists and film makers attempt to imagine the future of a wired society, while corporate culture strives to cash in on the World Wide Web.

In this course, we will explore emerging forms of hypertext through readings of cyberpunk fiction; novels about the boundary between human and artificial life; movies that use cyborgs and virtual reality to speculate about the role of technology in society; hypertext fictions, both on the web and on CD-ROM; critical theory about the future of electronic writing, the definition of cyberspace, and the future of literature in an age of hypertext.

No computer expertise is required. Although there will be frequent assignments requiring access to the World Wide Web, the techniques for using the net will be explained for those who have no previous experience. Students will construct their own web pages, and all writing assignments will be turned in online. Computer illiterates and beginners are encouraged to sign on.

Hypertext

Institution: Vanderbilt University
Instructor: Clayton, Jay | email
Info: Information

This course is one of of the many courses relevant to the study of hypertext taught by Jay Clayton. This one covers subjects ranging from web design to gender in cyberspace.

Vanderbilt University

Postmodernism and Cyberspace

Department: English: theory

Institution: Vanderbilt University
Instructor: Clayton, Jay | email
Info: Information

This course, an Undergraduate majors course was offered in the fall of 1996, and produced a variety of interesting student projects.

This course explored the emerging culture of cyberspace through readings of cyberpunk fiction; novels about the boundary between human and artificial life; movies that use cyborgs and virtual reality to speculate about the role of technology in society; hypertext fiction, and attempts to banish linear sequence; critical writing about the future of the internet; and literary theory, including works on the nature of postmodernism, the definition of cyberspace, and the future of criticism, scholarship, and editing in an age of hypertext.

Vassar College

Phanopoeia/Hypermedia

Institution: Vassar College
Instructor: Joyce, Michael | email
Info: Information | Projects

Taught by Michael Joyce, author of afternoon and Twilight.

"We will come to see (we have come to see) that electronic texts expose the patchwork ("expose" perhaps in the way of a photograph) and recall the body."

Vassar College and four Irish arts organizations

Electronic Writing

Department: English: writing

Institution: Vassar College and four Irish arts organizations
Instructor: Michael Joyce, Rachel Buswell, Noah Pivnick
Info:

A transatlantic course on hypertext writing. syllabus

Victoria University Wellington

Hypermedia Systems

Department: Computer Science

Institution: Victoria University Wellington
Instructor:
Info: Information

This course will address current research on the design, implementation, and evaluation of hypermedia systems. Where appropriate, related research in software engineering, database design, and user interface design and evaluation will be discussed.

Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Hypermedia Design

Institution: Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Instructor: Cecilia Buchanan, Paul Martin
Info:

Students in the class will be working on Web development projects for real customers. Projects will involve

Villa Julie College

Writing for the Web

Department: English

Institution: Villa Julie College
Instructor: Marylin Julius
Info: Information

According to Jay David Bolter, we are living in "the late age of print." Do we wring our hands in fear that books will disappear? Do we get ourselves wired and wait to see what happens next?

The course theme is Identity [] - not only who you are but who else you are: multiple identities, subjective and objective identities, online identities, roles and identities. You get the idea. Stick around - it may get interesting.

Virginia Commonwealth

Writing Hypertext

Department: English

Institution: Virginia Commonwealth
Instructor: Elizabeth Cooper
Info: Information | Syllabus

Immersion in reading, writing, and critiquing hypertext documents, including the exploratory/academic, the informational/transactional, and the literary. Focus will be on the rhetoric and design of hypertext in non-sequential electronic spaces, where nodes and links and the screen necessarily alter the writer's strategies for providing orientation and navigation for readers.

Virginia Commonwealth University

Writing Hypertext

Department: English: writing

Institution: Virginia Commonwealth University
Instructor: Elizabeth Cooper and Michael Keller | email
Info: Information | Syllabus | Projects

Writing Hypertext will provide/require immersion in reading, writing, and critiquing hypertext documents, including the exploratory/academic, the informational/transactional, and the literary. Focus will be on the rhetoric and design of hypertext in non-sequential electronic spaces, where nodes and links and the screen necessarily alter the writer's strategies for providing orientation and navigation for readers.

Students will compile annotated resources pages, review both print and hypertext documents and applications and write reader responses, compose two substantial hypertext projects, each serving a different audience and purpose, and critique the projects of other members of the class. Students will work closely with the instructors to design projects of significant scope and depth to meet the objectives of the course.

Professional Writing

Department: English: Writing

Institution: Virginia Commonwealth University
Instructor: elizabeth cooper and michael keller | email
Info: Information | Syllabus | Projects

This professional writing course will require 1) extensive research into a number of current issues involved in designing and writing professional documents for both print and electronic media and 2) effective presentations of the researched information in two major forms: questions and answers.

Collaborative research teams will investigate audience analysis; "traditional" and electronic research; criteria for evaluating credibility and reliability; graphic and document design; criteria and testing for readability and usability; copyright, ownership, access, privacy, and costs; publications management including collaborative authoring, editing, and managing print/electronic document projects and their production; evolving conventions and standards; implications for international audiences; and uses of new media.

In addition, teams will research and discuss issues involving the major projects that class members will undertake individually in the course: résumés and job/career searches; formal presentations; a section of an electronic "manual" (which may include print components) OR a design and publications plan for an online journal or professional site. Class members will make individual presentations and will critique the work of other students.

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

HyperLiterature/HyperTheory 1996

Department: English: Literature

Institution: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Instructor: Len Hatfield | email
Info: Information | Syllabus | Projects

Virginia, University of

Literary Narrative in an Information Age

Department: English: literature

Institution: Virginia, University of
Instructor: Kirschenbaum, Matt | email
Info: Information | Projects

How does literary culture perform its age-old ritual of narrative in an era when fragmentary and discrete units of information -- whether they come in the form of the mass-media soundbite, the corporate icons littering the plastic landscape of MTV's alternative nation, or the hypertext link of the World-Wide Web -- have they become the dominant means by which we communicate with the communities and cultures of which we are a part? This course explores the ways in which a number of contemporary novelists have responded to the challenge of living and writing in the latter half of the 20th Century -- a historical moment in which even the paper and ink with which they have traditionally worked have begun dissolving into the electronic hyperspaces of the post-print era. Under what conditions does story-telling still remain possible? Is the fragmentation of the literary text a progressive rethinking of past narrative conventions or a potentially dangerous development for writers whose fiction engages the social realities of their day? What is really at stake in the distinction made by one recent critic [Alan Liu] between being well-read and well-informed? This course was taught in the spring of 1997

Introduction to Literary Theory: Deconstruction, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies

Department: English: theory, writing

Institution: Virginia, University of
Instructor: Unsworth, John | email
Info: Information | Syllabus

ENSP 482 is an honors undergraduate seminar in English, taught in the spring of 1996 at the University of Virginia. This seminar will examine the theory and practice of hypertext, from its beginnings in the book through its contemporary software incarnations, including Macintosh-, Windows-, and Unix-based systems.

Members of the seminar will work in small groups over the course of the semester to construct their own hypertexts, the nature of which (critical, creative, bibliographical, documentary, autobiographical, etc.) will be determined by the authors.

Theory and Practice of Hypertext

Department: English: theory and practice

Institution: Virginia, University of
Instructor: Unsworth, John M. | email
Info: Information | Syllabus | Projects

ENSP 482 is an honors undergraduate seminar in English, taught in the spring of 1996 at the University of Virginia. This seminar will examine the theory and practice of hypertext, from its beginnings in the book through its contemporary software incarnations, including Macintosh-, Windows-, and Unix-based systems.

Members of the seminar will work in small groups over the course of the semester to construct their own hypertexts, the nature of which (critical, creative, bibliographical, documentary, autobiographical, etc.) will be determined by the authors. The World-Wide Web will be the medium for exchanging information related to the seminar, and wherever possible readings and projects will be presented through the Web, but seminar members are welcome to construct their projects in environments other than the Web.

Washington

Imagetext and Hypertext

Department: English

Institution: Washington
Instructor:
Info: Information

Writing and Presentation

Institution: Washington
Instructor: Kathy E. Gill
Info: Information

Washington State University Vancouver

Hypertext Rhetorics

Department: Education

Institution: Washington State University Vancouver
Instructor: Kendrick, Michelle R. | email
Info: Information | Syllabus | Projects

" This course will offer an in-depth look at the emerging field of writing in hypertextual environments. [...] We will examine the theoretical claims about and the practice of writing hypertext. We will think about these claims as they relate to education in general and to writing, specifically. What is happening to technologies of inscription?"

Washington, University of

Writing For The Web

Department: English: writing

Institution: Washington, University of
Instructor: Dillon, George | email
Info: Information | Syllabus | Projects

Our goal is to produce webpages with interesting content and decent technical quality. We select four kinds of writing to learn from, critique, and add to: expressive writing, travel, satire, and art.

West Virginia University, Center for Literary Computing

Virtual Environments: Performance, Interaction and Agency

Department: computer literacy

Institution: West Virginia University, Center for Literary Computing
Instructor: Warshauer, Susan | email
Info: Information | Projects

Interface theory and theater theory are applied to analyze multi-user environments. Students participate in,critique, and develop multi-user environments. Students also have the option to work in web media, hypertext or multimedia programs and we will have a range of Eastgate hypertext fiction and poetry works available to them at the Center for Literary Computing.

Western Ontario, The University of

Hypertext Fiction and Theory

Department: English: literature

Institution: Western Ontario, The University of
Instructor: Groden, Michael | email
Info: Information | Syllabus | Projects

The course will consider relations between hypertext and literature in four areas: 1) proto-hypertexts, or some print-based works that prefigure hypertext (Jorge-Luis Borges, "The Garden of Forking Paths," "The Library of Babel," and "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote"; James Joyce, Ulysses (excerpts); Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire; and Italo Calvino, If on A Winter's Night a Traveller; 2) examples of recent hypertext fiction (Michael Joyce, "Afternoon"; Carolyn Guyer, "Quibbling"; Shelley Jackson, "Patchwork Girl"); 3) print-based and hypertextual theories of hypertext (selections from Myron Tuman's collection, Literacy Online, and other photocopied essays; and 4) discussions of the relations between literary works and technology (excerpts from Jerome McGann, The Textual Condition; Walter J. Ong, Orality and Literacy)

Book Page and Computer Screen: The Literary Work as a Physical Object

Department: english: Literature

Institution: Western Ontario, The University of
Instructor: Groden, Michael | email
Info: Information | Syllabus | Projects

This course will look at two print novels and three short electronic hypertext fictions in terms of their physical features as well as their words. An elaborate Web-based edition of Pride and Prejudice can be usefully compared to a paperback version. Ulysses, a work very much aware of print's opportunities and limitations, can be compared to my hypermedia version. The hypertexts now seem most interesting as problems: do their physical attributes overwhelm the content? is there meaningful content at all or only form and structure? We will also look at several critics and theorists who discuss literary works in terms of their physicality or their material conditions of production.

Wisconsin, University of - Milwaukee

Computer Pedagogy for English Studies

Department: English: theory

Institution: Wisconsin, University of - Milwaukee
Instructor: Sands, Peter | email
Info: Information

"Particular emphasis will be paid to expanding participants' understanding of computer applications for English Studies out beyond the composition classroom and into both literature and creative writing classrooms. Accordingly, we will read, write and experiment with computers at their intersection with the study of writing, texts, authors, genres, and theories•from concordance compilation to collaborative composing."

Wisconsin, University of East Anglia - Milwaukee

Computer classroom open workshops: Storyspace

Institution: Wisconsin, University of East Anglia - Milwaukee
Instructor: Sands, Peter
Info: Information

A survey of hypertext, with emphasis on Storyspace

Wisconsin/Milwaukee

Open Workshop: Storyspace

Institution: Wisconsin/Milwaukee
Instructor: Peter Sands
Info: Information

trAce

The trAce Online Writing School

Institution: trAce
Instructor:
Info: Information

The trAce Online Writing School offers numerous ways to develop your own creative writing voice through working online with an international team of tutors and students. trAce has a vast selection of offerings of interest to the academic community.

To give a few obvious examples:

The trAce Online Writing School

Course in Digital Writing, an Introduction

Currently running - it will be offered again

http://www.tracewritingschool.com/courses/courses.cfm?ID=TR204

There are other courses related to hypertext, these aren't scheduled at the moment but will be returning to the schedule in due course.

The Nottingham Trent University

Offers a new media writing option on the MA in Writing

http://human.ntu.ac.uk/study_here/postgrad/writing/

trAce Online Writing Centre, most recently with its project Writers for the Future has been developing and training writers in new media: there are various resources and materials on the site including

http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/transition/

The Opening the Space Toolkit and Guide

TEXTLAB was an excellent training event, and may be repeated in the future.

http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/writersforthefuture/participate/textlab.htm

Kids on the Net has been working with kids and teachers at secondary and primary school levels for nearly 10 years (probably the first to do so). There are examples of hypertext written by groups of youngsters as well as facilitated collaborative hypertext projects.

The eTeachers' Portal, as part of the Writers for the Future in the Classroom project is working with 200 teachers to put new media writing and hypertext as a big part of that, into the classroom. The eTeachers' Portal website isn't looking brilliant at the moment because it's about to undergo a redesign, but the resources for teachers are all online at http://www.eteachersportal.com and include various hypertext related activities including a hyperlinking exercise designed to be run in Word on a school intranet:

Planet of Dreams, an online tool to create a branching hypertext story without needing to know HTML, with full downloadable notes and instructions http://kotn.ntu.ac.uk/hypertext/story.htm

Eastgate Academic Compendium

Courses in hypertext theory, in writing hypertext, on hypertext literature, and on the design and implementation of hypertext tools are taught throughout the world, from elementary school through graduate studies.

We hope that this compendium of hypertext courses will give students and instructors, now and in the future, a better sense of what has been done elsewhere and what might be accomplished, and to facilitate communication among everyone interested in studying and teaching hypertext.

These notes describe courses, past and present, of which we have heard. We apologize for errors and inaccuracies. Please send corrections and additions to info@eastgate.com.

Hypertext in Courses

This is a list of frequently asked questions about the use of Hypertext in a classroom setting.

Can I assign hypertexts to my classes?

Yes. Eastgate's hypertexts are assigned texts in classes throughout the world. The most common subject areas are modern literature, writing, and hypertext design, but hypertexts have been part of courses ranging from Computer Science to Sociology.

Can my school's bookstore order hypertexts for my students?

Yes. Eastgate works with school and college bookstores throughout the world. We're also happy to accept orders from instructors, groups of students, or individual students.

Can our reading group explore hypertexts?

Yes. If your group has ten or more members, we can often arrange special discounts.

Can you help arrange for guest lectures?

We can are happy to help arrange lectures, readings, hypertext signings, and workshops. Please call for ideas, or email info@eastgate.com .

Can we license hypertexts for our computer classrooms?

Yes. Special licenses are available for 10 or 100 simultaneous users, or for unlimited use within a library or campus.

Are multi-user licenses expensive?

No. Prices vary, but for many titles a 10-user license costs just $59.85.

What about libraries?

Libraries throughout the world collect Eastgate hypertexts. Hypertexts can circulate like books, and can be placed on reserve if demand is high. Multi-user licenses are inexpensive, so it is easy to meet the demands of large classes. Additional information on hypertext in libraries.