300-400 level courses are on special topics and are more advanced. They often presuppose some basic knowledge in the field and should be more difficult courses than courses at the 1-199 levels. The department is trying to insure that some 400 level courses, although substantially more difficult, are also small in size; they thus may be suitable for graduate students.
HIST 411 From Gutenberg to Google: Introduction to Written Culture
Taught as schedule allows (consult the Course Directory)
SEM
This seminar intends to locate the contemporary mutations of the composition, publication and appropriation of the written word within the long-term history of scribal and print culture. Taught in the Van Pelt Library it will be largely based on documents belonging to its special collections and deal with the main transformations, genres, and practices (reading, writing, performing) of the written word from the late Middle Ages to our times (but with a particular emphasis on the print and reading "revolutions? of the early modern period).
