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OFFICE HOURS AND CONTACT INFORMATIONMy office hours for the semester are Tuesdays 2:30 - 4:00 and Wednesdays 10:30 - 12:00 in POT 1319 (7-6985). I'm also happy to make appointments. The best way to reach me outside of class is by email: mgk@pop.uky.edu.
TEXT AND READINGSOur text, by Browner et al., is entitled Literature and the Internet: A Guide for Students, Teachers, and Scholars (Garland 2000). Copies should be available at the UK, Kennedy, and Wildcat bookstores. In addition, I have assigned online essays and other items native to the Web. Electronic materials are just as important as the printed text, and should be read or explored with equal care.Throughout the semester you may find it useful to consult printed editions of Coleridge or Wordsworth's correspondence. I have not placed these volumes on official reserve, but please be considerate of others' needs by either consulting them in the stacks or keeping them out for only very short periods of time. The standard edition of Coleridge's correspondence is by Griggs; the standard edition of Wordsworth's correspondence is by de Selincourt, though there have also been other selections and collections of the letters. THE CLASS PROJECTAs indicated in the material about the course, a major focus of our work for the semester will be the collaborative design and production of a scholarly electronic archive based on materials from the Library's Peal Collection. (The pedagogical assumption behind this project is that the best way to learn about new technologies is by doing something with them.)Due dates for the various components of the project are listed on the course calendar page. Additional information about each of the individual components, as well as the design of the archive as a whole, will be available from the project page.
GRADING AND RESPONSIBILITIESAlthough the Peal project will be collaborative in nature (we'll be working together to build a whole greater than the sum of its parts) you will each be graded individually for your contribution. The work you do on all of your various project components will therefore account for 50% of your final course grade.In addition, there will be a mid-term exam which will account for 20% of your course grade, and a short end-of-term writing assignment (3-5 pages) that will account for another 20%. The writing assignment will not involve research, but will simply ask you to develop some thoughts and conclusions about the role of new electronic technologies in humanities teaching and research. The final 10% of your grade will be discretionary in order to account for class participation or other relevant considerations.
ABSENCES AND LATE WORKI will expect you to be present for each of our weekly meetings short of truly extenuating personal circumstances. Please note that it will be extremely difficult for you to create the various project components if you are not present in class when we cover the requisite material. Students who are chronically absent will be asked to withdraw from the course.Late work is unacceptable short of truly extenuating personal circumstances; moreover, since so much of our enterprise will be collaborative, late work will prove a hinderance for others in the class who are depending on your efforts. Students who chronically submit their work late will be asked to withdraw from the course.
RCH AND INFORMATICSDuring the semester we will occassionally be using the facilities of the collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities (RCH, pronounced "arch"). The collaboratory is located in Young 3-51 and 3-52, and is staffed full time by Linda Cantara (7-9549) Monday through Friday 9:00 - 5:00.You should also be aware that this course can count as one of the three courses needed to earn the University's graduate certificate in Informatics. I will be glad to discuss the other requirements of the certificate with anyone interested. |