Category Archives: Assignments

Due date: Friday, 16 December

The purpose of this assignment is to allow you to explore in greater depth authors, texts, and subjects which you have previously studied—and to do so using the tools and methods of the Digital Humanities. …

Choose a text you have enjoyed reading in a past literature class. If it is a longer text, choose a short passage approximately 15-30 lines long. The purpose of this assignment is for you to practice your HTML coding and …

Open the (X)HTML Tutorial. Read the following sections:

• Standards and Best Practices
• Elements
• Attributes
• The Semantic Web
• Cascading Stylesheets
• Styling Text

Now choose one of the following images of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18:

Source: Shakespeare’s English

Source: How to Write …

We are running about a class behind, so I would like to give you the opportunity to continue to discuss some of the issues raised by last weeks “readings”. Here are two prompts for your thinking. You may choose to …

This assignment is delayed due the fact that I came down with the cold that is going around almost immediately after class on Wednesday. I am aware that the first three readings (“A Manifesto for Cyborgs”, “Johnny Mnemnonic”, and “The …

First Blog Assignment

After doing the reading for 7 September, begin to post responses to the readings. You should try to address one or more of the following questions:

• From your perspective, what is the current position of the Humanities,