ENG 217 Reading, Writing and Digital Culture

This course combines research into the impact of 21st century technologies and new media on the study of literature and culture with the use of digital humanities methods to analyze texts and create new knowledge and new theoretical and ethical considerations and other developments in the field.

Credits

4

Prerequisite

Recommended: WR 115 or placement into WR 121Z

Course Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Read, analyze, and synthesize electronic literary and cultural texts, artifacts and new media using appropriate research tools and techniques; convert primary sources to electronic formats with relevant metadata
2. Use various digital humanities strategies to interpret literary and/or other culturally significant texts
3. Collaborate with peers through new technologies
4. Understand and analyze the major debates in digital humanities, including ethical considerations and considerations of race, gender, sexual orientation and difference and explain how these issues are relevant for undergraduates in a community college setting
5. Collaboratively produce new digital humanities projects (e.g., a new digital archive or a system of tagging for an extant text or archive, a crowdsourced document, a geomapped open-source document, etc.)