Upcoming Events

Film.Literature.Software
Dreamweaver Workshops
Weeks 7-9
Various times
SH 2509

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ranscriptions is a NEH-funded curricular development and research initiative started in 1998 by the English Dept. at UC Santa Barbara to focus on literary study and information society. The goal of is to demonstrate a paradigm—at once theoretical, instructional, and technical—for integrating new information media and technology within the core work of a traditional humanities discipline. Transcriptions seeks to "transcribe" between past and present understandings of what it means to be a literate, educated, and humane person.

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hat is the relation between being "well-read" and "well-informed"? How can contemporary culture sensibly create a bridge between its past norms of cultural literacy and its present sense of the immense power of information culture? . . .

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