Class Details

Class Number 14024

Tues., Thurs. 4:00-6:45

Jerome Richfield 319

Contact Details

Office: 803 Sierra Tower
Telephone: 677-0901
E-mail: scott.kleinman@csun.edu

Essay


Weight: 30% of final grade
Due: Wednesday, May 14, 5 p.m. Please slide your essay under my door in Sierra Tower 803.

Format: approximately 5 pages typed anddouble-spaced with 1-inch margins andpages numbered. This essay is about the difference it makes to think about a text in relationship to the material and/or social circumstances of its production and reception.

The requirements are:

* Note: If you have used an article from a printed journal or a book which exists in print, cite it as a printed source, even if you have acquired the source online. Hence, if you read provided on the course web site or by Project Muse, cite the source as according to the method you would use for a printed text and provide the page numbers as they are printed in that version published in pritn. You only need to provide a URL for web sites (i.e. sources which cannot be found in print).




Group Web Project


Weight: 30% of final grade
Due: 23 April (Plan due 9 April)

The group’s site is to focus on a primary text or cluster of related texts. The site should contain:

Grading of individuals is based on:

Procedure and Plan: The group will need to exchange e-mail, decide on who will be the “webmaster,” keeping the page on his or her web space, and making sure that the site as a whole works. The group should also decide on someone who keeps everyone on track with their work (the “taskmaster”), reminding them to get drafts done to share with others. Individual pages (or at least full drafts of them) will need to be done enough ahead of time for composition of the introductory page. The design and substance of that page should be a group project, though one person will need to be in charge of final polishing and proofreading.

You will turn in a Group Plan on 9 April, which will specify the following elements: the webmaster, the taskmaster, the person who will polish and proofread the introductory page, the topics each member will present for the project. I will then give you commentary and some further direction. Please contact me early if you need to discuss possible topics.

Topics: Any topic may be narrowed or expanded as seems best; the length of any presentation should be the equivalent of 3-5 typewritten, double-spaced pages (if you do something more visual or dynamic, the “equivalent” will be in terms of detail and depth). Be sure to provide proper references for quotations and ideas derived from essays and web sites. Provide at the end a list of essays, books, and web sites that you have used in your research and presentation (i.e. a bibliography). All bibliographical references should be cited in a recognised scholarly format such as MLA; however, this format may be modified if something in your web site design warrants it.

Research tips:

 

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Mini Web Project


Weight: 25% of final grade
Due: 12 March

Choose a text from the syllabus that you think you will enjoy working on for a series of assignments. For your first assignment, you will concentrate on a short passage from your chosen text, approximately five to ten lines long. The purposes of this assignment are for you to learn to make a simple web page using html coding, to begin to think about the material dimensions of the text in its medieval manifestation(s), and to begin to analyse the meanings of the text.

For this assignment, you may not use Dreamweaver or any other program that does the coding for you. Although you will be given instruction in html coding in class, you may also wish to get ahead by reading the tutorials from htmlgoodies.com.

Your web page should have the following components:

You should keep your web page on your CSUN account (or another host, if you already have one) and e-mail the url (address) by the due date to me (scott.kleinman@csun.edu).

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