Print Culture Courses—Summer 2008

Art 446: Artist’s Books. 3 credits. The multiple and sequential visual imagery of the non-printed book, including its design and creation. Students will have an opportunity to learn how to make paper if they desire. Otherwise they will learn how several styles of book binding. Taught In a temporary space in Sterling Hall where we have a small papermaking facility (Prof. Jim Escalante).

Print Culture Courses—Fall 2008

English 461: Intellectual Opinion—19 th Century English Literature Topic: Victorian Literature., Science and Print Culture. (Crosslisted with History of Science 350: Special Topics—History of Science).3 credits. (Prof. Susan Bernstein and Prof. Lynn Nyhart).

LIS 570: History of Books and Print Culture . (Crosslisted with History, Journalism). 3 credits. History of print culture in the Western World from the invention of moveable type in 15th century Europe to 1900, and in the U.S. from colonial times to the present. Emphasis on print's influence on social intellectual and cultural life. (Prof. Madge H. Klais).

History 951: U.S. Intellectual and Cultural History: Literature of the Field. 3 credits. This readings course introduces graduate students to the scholarship in U.S. intellectual and cultural history. Our syllabus will include both classic and recent studies in U.S. thought and culture, which will provide students a foundation in the diverse subjects, theories, and modes of interpretation that have defined the field. We will investigate the inherent interdisciplinarity of the field, examining how developments in philosophy, political theory, cultural studies, and anthropology have influenced the ways in which historians of thought and culture have approached their work and understood their own enterprise. Because intellectual historians like to think about thinking, this course will have its fair share of theory. However, all of the readings, both theoretical and historical, will raise questions of general concern: How to understand the agency of historical actors, ideas, and ideologies? How to measure intellectual and cultural influence? How to access the felt experience and the moral world views of people from the past? How to apprehend the meanings of particular cultural discourses in their own time and place? By asking questions about the creation, transmission, power, and influence of ideas, beliefs, and cultural sensibilities, we will address issues that not only have characterized the field, but also have broader applicability to the discipline as a whole. (Prof. Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen).