This is an archive of the website for ENGL 391a: Digital Literature taught by Jessica Pressman (Assistant Professor of English) in Fall 2008. The syllabus and examples of final student projects have been preserved. The readings and posts have been removed.
The student projects archived here, and accessible on the right, are selections of the final projects created for the course. A description of the assignment is below.
DESCRIPTION OF FINAL PROJECT ASSIGNMENT:
Final Web-based Essay Project: This 10-12 page paper will be an analytical essay on at least one work from the course presented, and it will be presented in the form of a website. You will propose your own essay topic and website in a formal proposal, meet with me to discuss the structure and presentation of the argument, and receive technical support from ITG to implement the digital aspects of this creative-critical analysis. You will receive the necessary instruction for building the site and including these required elements in it during an out-of-class session by ITG. This final assignment serves to implement the learned methodology of media-specific analysis and to exhibit an understanding of how the relationship between form and content, the foundation of traditional literary study, expands to address the role of technologies in presenting and accessing literature.