English 149 (Winter 2008), Class 1

Preliminary Class Business

• Enrollment
• Wait List
• Add codes in class 3
• Sign-up sheet

1. Idea of Course

•  Academic / professional rationale
  • Anecdote
  • Interdisciplinarity
    • E.g., NSF IGERT grants, UCSB Center for Nanotechnology in Society)
  • Digital technology / new media
    • E.g., China Historical GIS
  • Business teams / collaborative work / collaboration technologies
• Idea of this course

2. Course Structure and Assignments

• Schedule 
  • Required Readings
  • Toy Chest
• Assignments 
  • Tech Support

3. How do we read a poem?

•  Sir Thomas Wyatt, "They Flee From Me" (1557) [commentary by Ian Lancashire]

• John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (1819)
• Archibald MacLeish, "Ars Poetica" (1926)
• Cleanth Brooks, "The Heresy of Paraphrase" and "Keats's Sylvan Historian," from his Well Wrought Urn (1947) [in course reader]

For Next class:

• Read Franco Moretti's Graphs, Maps, Trees, pp. 1-33