13 January: Review of the Pico editor and Unix operating system; writing HTML.
18-20 January: The Blake Archive: Team analyses of texts with multiple versions.
ASSIGNMENT #1: Oral presentations accompanied by 2-3 page written papers.25 January: Overview of the Blake Archive; discussion.
27 January: The electronic Oxford English Dictionary as a resource for more than simple word definitions.
1-3 February: RLIN (Research Library Network) and ESTC (English Short-Title Catalogue, up to 1800).
by 3 February: ASSIGNMENT #2: contextualize a major work, non-literary or literary, within the year's (and, if necessary, adjacent years') lists of its publisher.8 February: Using Excel (or any spread-sheet software) for statistical representations: comparative graphing of publishing information from the ESTC.
ASSIGNMENT #3: email graph-projects by 10 February.10 February: Discussion of ASSIGNMENT #3; WWW Library Resources.
15-17 February: WWW library and text resources.
by 17 February: ASSIGNMENT #4: Search for works, archives, texts in foreign library sources (preferably using the language--even Latin--that fulfills the College or graduate school requirement): mail results to class.22-24 February: ASSIGNMENT #5: Individual presentations on useful internet resources.
1-3 March: SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) and VHTML (Virtual Hypertext Markup Language).
5-14 March: Spring Break.
15-17 March: Analytical software: concordancing, etc.
22-24 March: Hypertext fiction and poetry.
29-31 March: Hypertext theory.
5-7 April: Frankenstein: The Pennsylvania Electronic Edition.
12-14, 19-21 April: Presentation and discussion of individual research projects.