Syllabus

August 24 Sparks 9
Organization and background; discussion of the profession; eTD Initiative at PSU (with demos)

August 31 (Sparks 9)
Kinds of tools and resources that support e-scholarship; construction of simple websites.

September 7 at 432 Shadow Lane
Kinds of criticism and scholarship

September 14 (Sparks 9)
Electronic tools and data acquisition due: article assessment; presentation by Robert Astroff (head of PSU's Digital Resources Center)

September 21 (Sparks 9)
Issues of "proof" in humanistic scholarship due: book review

September 28 432 Shadow Lane
Texts and their reliability

October 5 (Sparks 9)
Analysis of data due: bibliographic essay

October 12 at 432 Shadow Lane
.Matt Kinservik and Don-John Dugas

October 19 at 432 Shadow Lane
Rhetoric of scholarship

October 26 (Sparks 9)
Data management due: 1-page idea for mock thesis

November 2 at 432 Shadow Lane
Article publication

November 9 at 432 Shadow Lane
Archival illustrations

November 16
Workshop (Sparks 9)

November 23
No class: Thanksgiving

November 30 at 432 Shadow Lane
Book publication and CRC [camera-ready copy] due: draft of mock-thesis proposal

December 7 at 432 Shadow Lane
Class critiques of drafts and finale December 15 at noon: all work for the course must be completed