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Course Schedule
How To Read This Schedule: All readings will be completed before class on the date on which they are assigned. Anything in bold is work to be completed before class and brought with you on the day listed. Paper due dates, also in bold, indicate that the completed manuscript of your paper must be in the correct dropbox on eCampus before class starts on the day indicated.
Week 1 Introductions
Tue 01/15
- Course Overview
- Pressman and Hayles, “Introduction” from Comparative Textual Media
Thu 01/17
- Parmenides, Fragments
Week 3 Sophists
Tue 01/29
- Anonymous, “Dissoi Logoi”
Thu 01/31
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Alcidamas, "Those Who Speak From Written Texts"
Week 4 Isocrates
Tue 02/05
- Alcidamas, “Those Who Speak From Written Texts”
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Isocrates, "Against the Sophists"
Thu 02/07
- Isocrates, “Against the Sophists”
Week 5 Socrates I
Tue 02/12
- Plato, Phaedrus, 227a-243e
Thu 02/14
- Plato, Phaedrus, 244a-274a
Week 6 Socrates II
Tue 02/19
- Plato, Phaedrus, Rest
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Conducting Research -
Organizing Sources / Notes
Thu 02/21
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Plato, Symposium - Conducting Research
- Organizing Sources / Notes
Week 7 Socrates III
Tue 02/26
- Plato, Symposium, 172A-199C
Thu 02/28
- Plato, Symposium, Rest
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Paper 1 Pre-Work Due
Week 8 The End of Authorship
Tue 03/05
- Roland Barthes, “The Death of the Author”
Thu 03/07
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Paper 1 Workshop - Summarizing Sources
Week 9
Tue 03/12
No Class
Spring Break
Thu 03/14
No Class
Spring Break
Week 10 The End of Authorship
Tue 03/19
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McLuhan, "The Medium is the Message" -
McLuhan and Fiore, The Medium is the Massage -
Paper 1 Due - Paper 1 Workshop
Thu 03/21
- McLuhan, “The Medium is the Message”
- McLuhan and Fiore, The Medium is the Massage
- Paper 1 Due Sunday, 3/24
Week 11 Literacy I
Tue 03/26
- McLuhan, “The Medium is the Message”
- McLuhan and Fiore, The Medium is the Massage
Thu 03/28
- Victor Vitanza, “Abandoned to Writing”
Week 12 Literacy II
Tue 04/02
Thu 04/04
Week 13 Media
Tue 04/09
- Friedrich Kittler, “Introduction” from Gramophone, Film, Typewriter
Thu 04/11
- Friedrich Kittler, “Introduction” from Gramophone, Film, Typewriter
Week 14 Writing's Future I
Tue 04/16
- Flusser, Does Writing Have a Future?, pp. 3-45
Thu 04/18
- Flusser, Does Writing Have a Future?, pp. 47-85
Week 15 Writing's Future II
Tue 04/23
- Flusser, Does Writing Have a Future?, pp. 87-131
Thu 04/25
- Flusser, Does Writing Have a Future?, Rest
- Paper 2 Pre-work Due
- Paper 2 Due 05/03
Week 16
Tue 04/30
No Class
Redefined Day (Go To Friday Classes)