syllabus

Open Access Syllabuses

While the syllabuses below are roughly divided between two categories, they all challenge and blur the distinctions between digital humanities and composition in the classroom. Teachers are invited and encouraged to draw inspiration by reading across the two sections below.

Digital Humanities and Digital Literary Studies

• Ryan Cordell: Texts, Maps, Newtorks: Digital Literary Studies & Technologies of Text
• Constance Crompton: The Self Conscious Text
• Jeff Drouin: DH and Modernism course site & World War I Course Exhibit
• Lisa Gitelman: The Social Life of Paper & Text and Technology
• Steve Jones: Digital Media and Culture
• Amanda Licastro: First Year Research Seminar – Robots, Apes, and Electric Sheep: Investigating Our Cybernetic Culture
• Alan Liu: Literature + Experimenting with Digital Approaches to Understanding Literature, Close Reading and Distant Reading in Literary Studies, & more
• Janine Utell: Methods of Literary Study
• Grant Wythoff: Screen Reading course website and syllabus

Digital Rhetoric and Composition

• Steve Jones: Interpreting Literature
• Amanda Licastro: First Year Writing Seminar – Thinking and Writing Through New Media
• Matt Paproth: Writing Rock and Roll, Postmodernism and Revision in the Writing Classroom, & The Technologies of Popular Culture
• Eric Rettberg: Data, Information, Culture
• Janine Utell: Reading, Thinking, Writing

Further Resources

See much more at CUNY Academic Commons and the Open Syllabus Project.

Digital Assignments

• Amanda Licastro: Final Assignment, Reflective Design & Final Assignment, Speculative Fiction

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