The time machine, the difference engine, the sonic screwdriver in Doctor Who, and the cyborg: these technologies were born out of language, literature, and imagination. Technologies like the printing press and the Internet allow us to communicate with one another, but through literature we can intimately explore the effects of technology on human experience.<\/p>\n
In this course, we will be using current digital humanities methods like digital editing, exhibits, data mining, and interactive mapping to explore late nineteenth-century novels about the relationship between technology and human experience, including novels like Samuel Butler\u2019s Erewhon, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle\u2019s Professor Challenger series, Begum Rokeya\u2019s Sultana\u2019s Dream, Edward Bellamy\u2019s Looking Backward, and Bram Stoker\u2019s Dracula. After exploring the possibilities of several digital tools and methods, students will develop a comprehensive digital project either on their own or in collaborative teams.<\/p>\n
Most readings will be available via Blackboard; the following books are available for pick-up at Textbook Services: We are going to be learning about the digital humanities (You\u2019ll know what that means by semester\u2019s end, I promise!). This is going to get you out of your comfort zone in a lot of ways. I know that may sound as frightening as The War of the Worlds and as aimless as a search for Dracula\u2019s secret lair, but trust me, it will be worth it. To make it work, I need you to come to class every day prepared to screw around. That is how digital humanities folks describe the work that they do when they play with things to see how they work, take time to experiment, and tinker without an end goal.\u00a0Failure is an acceptable outcome. Things may not work right the first time or even the fourth time, but as long as I can see that you\u2019ve applied yourself to the process and learned from it, I\u2019ll consider you to have done the work for the class and then some.<\/p>\n For my part, I\u2019ve designed a syllabus that gives you the opportunity to take big risks with the comfort that a failure is never truly a failure. We\u2019ll be using contract grading (more about that later) and flipped learning. Flipped classrooms provide a flexible environment in which learning happens outside of class so that in class you can engage with your classmates and me in the active invention of products and ideas. As a result, our in-class time will be adaptive to your interests and our timeline for assignments will be flexible. For more on flipped learning, visit: http:\/\/flippedlearning.org\/domain\/46<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is just a short excerpt for the about page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_sb_is_suggestion_mode":false,"_sb_show_suggestion_boards":false,"_sb_show_comment_boards":false,"_sb_suggestion_history":"","_sb_update_block_changes":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-32","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/technology-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/technology-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/technology-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/technology-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/technology-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/technology-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3314,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/technology-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions\/3314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/technology-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nEdward Bellamy, Looking Backward<\/em>
\nBram Stoker, Dracula<\/em>
\nCharlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland<\/em><\/p>\nScrewing Around, Failure, and Flipped Learning<\/h3>\n