January 20

Melville, "Bartleby the Scrivener"

Required Lab: Principles of Web Design
Reading: "The Art of Interface"

January 25

Pynchon, Slow Learner (Introduction, "The Small Rain," "Lowlands," "Entropy")

January 27

Pynchon, Slow Learner
("Under the Rose," "The Secret Integration")

Required Lab: Intro to HTML

February 1

Melville, The Confidence Man
(Chapters 1-24)

February 3

Melville, The Confidence Man
(Chapters 25-45)

Required Lab: Posting and Testing Your Web Pages

February 8

Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
(Chapters 1-4)

February 10

Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
(Chapters 5-6)

Required Lab: Workshop for Project #1; please post a draft of your assignment before this session!

February 14

Project #1 due, 5:00 pm

February 15

Presentations: Project #1

February 17

Melville, Pierre
(Books I-VII)

February 22

Melville, Pierre
(Books VIII-XIX)

February 24

Melville, Pierre
(Books XX-XXVI)

Optional Lab: Intro to Web Graphics

February 29

Pynchon, V.
(Chapters 1-6)

March 2

Pynchon, V.
(Chapters 7-9)

Optional Lab: Intro to Web Graphics, Part II

March 7

Pynchon, V.
(Chapters 10-13)

March 9

No class - out of town

Optional Lab: Intermediate HTML - Coding Frames

March 14 & 16

No class - spring break

March 21

March 22

Project #2 due, 5:00 pm

March 23

Presentations: Project #2

Optional Lab: Making Image Maps

March 28

Melville, Moby-Dick
(Chapters 1-31)

March 30

Melville, Moby-Dick
(Chapters 32-59)

Optional Lab: Using Ready-Made JavaScripts

April 4

Melville, Moby-Dick
(Chapters 60-99)

Final project proposals due in class

April 6

Melville, Moby-Dick
(Chapters 100-Epilogue)

Optional Lab: Working with Audio

April 11

Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
Sections I.1-I.16 (3-136)

April 13

Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
Sections I.17-II.6 (136-249)

Annotated bibliographies due before class

Optional Lab: Working with Video

April 18

Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
Sections II.7-III.8 (249-390)

April 20

Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
Sections III.8-III.20 (390-518)

Required Lab:Workshop for Final Projects; please post a draft of your assignment before this session!

April 25

Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
Sections III.21-IV.2 (518-640)

April 27

Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
Sections IV.3-IV.12 (640-760)

Required Lab: Finishing touches

April 28

Final projects due, 5:00 pm

May 2

Presentations: Final projects

May 4

Presentations: Final projects