HSCT 101 - Text and Technology

Institution:

Catholic University of America

Subject:

Honors Culture and Technology

Description:

This course examines notions of text in the present moment. Traditionally, texts are seen as authoritative sources of meaning and their relationships to their authors and readers are relatively straightforward. In the postmodern world, however, both text and reading are broader, more complex ideas. Texts are sites where meaning is negotiated among readers, author, and reality. Moreover, every new medium, newspaper, television, or internet, modifies our understanding of what texts are and what reading them involves. This seminar explores the increasingly complicated and challenging condition of textuality, attending alike to many different forms of text - printed, photographed, recorded, broadcast, - as well a hypertext, the inter-linked and multiform texts of contemporary digital media.

Credits:

3.00

Credit Hours:

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.cua.edu

Phone Number:

(202) 319-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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