| Professor Deena Engel Department of Computer Science, Courant Institute 251 Mercer Street, Room 422
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Professor Marion Thain
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SYLLABUS
Class time: Monday 6:00- 8:00pm in 244 Greene Street, Room 105
Lab Session: Wednesdays 10:00-11:00 At Waverly (24 Waverly Place), room 668
Prof. Thain office hours: Mondays 5:00 - 6:00 PM; Wednesdays 11:00AM - noon
Prof. Engel office hours: Mondays 11:00AM - 12:30PM; Tuesdays 11:00AM and Tuesdays 11:00AM - 12:30PM; and by appointment
Course Structure
This course will consist of a weekly lecture and discussion format to cover concepts and to work through technical examples together in class. In addition, Prof Engel will hold a weekly two-hour session in the ITS Multi-Media lab to be available to students individually as they work on their projects and Prof Thain will hold a weekly office hour in her office to suport students in their literary research. Students are encouraged to ask questions specific to their level of expertise with respect to technology and to work on projects in their fields of interest in literature.
Course Materials
Required Textbook:
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HTML and CSS: Design and Build Websites http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118008189.html |
Optional Textbook:
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WordPress: The Missing Manual Print ISBN: 978-1-4493-0984-8 | ISBN 10: 1-4493-0984-4 |
On-Line Textbooks:
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A Companion to Digital Humanities Ed. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004. http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/ |
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A Companion to Digital Literary Studies Paperback Edition: |
Software
All of the software will be available in the ITS multi-media lab at no charge. Students who wish to work on their own machines might consider either 30-day trial versions of proprietary software (such as the Adobe products or Oxygen) or purchasing such software through the NYU Computer store or other venue to benefit from academic pricing. In addition, every student will have an account on an NYU web server for posting all assignments and projects at no charge.
Archival MaterialsStudents will work with archival materials from New York University’s Fales Library and Special Collections and other resources available through New York University’s libraries. It will be the responsibility of students who wish to pursue further research on their primary source materials to discuss issues of copyright with our archivists and library staff.
Topics - Course Schedule to be posted
The course is divided into three broad sections; each one building on the previous topic.
- Mark-up languages and the fundamentals of web development
- Building online digital literary archives using a Content Management System (CMS) and related skills (exposure to JavaScript, PHP, MySQL)
- Text Encoding and the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI, XML)
Course Requirements and Assignments
There will be numerous readings as well as three hands-on student projects required during the semester. All projects will be posted to the student's website. Students will present their final project to the class at the end of the semester in lieu of a final exam.