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Spring 1999 Syllabus
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Required Texts
Policy sheet



Week 1

W 1/20 Introduction to Class, Go over Syllabus, Assign Diagnostic

F 1/22 Diagnostic Due, have Connections, Chapter 2 read


Week 2 What Does the Internet Hold for Us??

M 1/25 Langdon Winner, "Mythinformation" (Course Packet)

"Thinking Like a Critic" (Course Packet)
Connections, Chapter 3
W 1/27 Howard Rheingold, "Disinformocracy" (Course Packet and at
http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/10.html)
***Read up to page 12 only** F 1/29 Read to end of Rheingold article
Connections, Chapter 7


Week 3 Virtual Communities

M 2/1 Response 1 due

**Meet in Computer Classroom***
W 2/3 Howard Rheingold, Introduction to Virtual Community (CyberReader 63-77)
"Thinking Like a Skeptic" (Course Packet)
F 2/5 Sherry Turkle, "Identity Crisis" (CyberReader 78-93)

Week 4 Regulating the Internet

M 2/8 **Meet in Computer Classroom**

W 2/10 **Rough Draft of Composition 1 Due**

F 2/12 Michael Meyer and Anne Underwood, "Crimes of the Net" (CyberReader 111-14)

Harper's Forum, "Is Computer Hacking a Crime?" (CyberReader 124-143)

Week 5 Regulating the Internet, cont.

M 2/15 **Final Composition 1 Due**

Peter H. Lewis, "No More Anything Goes" (CyberReader 115-18)
James Harrington, "Beware of Chilling Freedom of Expression" (CyberReader 146-47)


W 2/17 John Perry Barlow, "The Economy of Ideas" (CyberReader 318-38)

F 2/19 Critical Art Ensemble, "Utopian Plagiarism, Hypertextuality, and Electronic Cultural Production"

(CyberReader 339-50)


Week 6 Gender and the Internet

M 2/22 Response 2 Due
 

**Meet in Computer Classroom**
Connections, Chapter 6


W 2/24 Barbara Kantrowitz, "Men, Women, and Computers" (CyberReader 176-83)

Deborah Tannen, "Gender Gap in Cyberspace" (CyberReader 184-86)


F 2/26 **Proposal for Research Composition 1 Due**

Susan Herring, "Bringing Familiar Baggage to the New Frontier" (CyberReader 190-201)


Week 7 "Passing" and the Internet

M 3/1 Sherry Turkle, "Tinysex and Gender Trouble" (Course Packet)

W 3/3 Amy S. Bruckman, "Gender Swapping on the Internet" (CyberReader 418-25)

F 3/5 Response 3 Due

Lisa Nakamura, "Race In/For Cyberspace: Identity Tourism and Racial Passing on the Internet" (CyberReader 442-53)

Week 8

M 3/8 Jay David Bolter, "The Computer as a New Writing Space" (CyberReader 270-86)

W 3/10 **No Class—Conferences**

F 3/12 ***Rough Draft of Research Composition 1 Due***


Week 9 Spring Break


Week 10 Getting Started with Web Publishing

M 3/22 Second Peer Review—Bring Rough Draft Copy

W 3/24 **Meet in Computer Classroom**

Connections, Chapter 15
Complete Idiot's Guide, Chapters 1 and 7


F 3/26 **Final Research Composition 1 Due**

**Meet in Computer Classroom**
Connections 17
Complete Idiot's Guide, Chapter 2


Week 11

M 3/29 **Proposal for Research Composition 2 Due**

**Meet in Computer Classroom**
Complete Idiot's Guide, Chapter 3
W 3/31 **Meet in Computer Classroom**
Connections, Chapter 19
Complete Idiot's Guide, Chapter 5


F 4/2 **Meet in Computer Classroom**

Complete Idiot's Guide, Chapter 6


Week 12

M 4/5 **Meet in Computer Classroom**

Complete Idiot's Guide, Chapter 22


W 4/7 **Meet in Computer Classroom**

Complete Idiot's Guide, Chapter 13


F 4/9 **Meet in Computer Classroom**

Complete Idiot's Guide, Chapter 10


Week 13

M 4/12 **No Class—Conferences**

W 4/14 **Meet in Computer Classroom**

Complete Idiot's Guide, Chapter 17


F 4/16 **Rough Draft of Research Composition 2 Due**


Week 14

M 4/19 Continue with Peer Review

W 4/21 **Final Research Composition 2 Due**
 

**Meet in Computer Classroom**


F 4/23 Begin Presentations

**Meet in Multimedia Room (in Basement of English Building)


Week 15

M 4/26 Presentations

**Meet in Multimedia Room (in Basement of English Building)

W 4/28 Presentations

**Meet in Multimedia Room (in Basement of English Building)

F 4/30 Presentations

**Meet in Multimedia Room (in Basement of English Building)


Week 16

M 5/3 Presentations

**Meet in Multimedia Room (in Basement of English Building)

W 5/5 Last Day of Instruction

**Final Web Page Due**
Presentations
**Meet in Multimedia Room (in Basement of English Building)


     
 

REQUIRED TEXTS:

Victor Vitanza, CyberReader  2nd ed.
Connections: A Guide to Online Writing
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a HTML 4 Web Page
Course Packet (Available at Notes N Quotes)