ENGL 116B
Introduction to Electronic Literature
Description: Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or 3H. Overview of literatures involving digital technology, such as hypertext fiction, interactive fiction, animated and interactive poetry, multimedia works, video game narrative, and works employing network protocols and print-based works influenced by digital culture. Basic introduction to new media theory. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 5.0
Units: 5.0
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Fall 2023 - Senior coming back to drop a review on my favorite class. When I took electronic lit, ChatGPT had just launched to the public. Snelson was the first professor I had that addressed it, he changed the entire course to focus on learning about generative AI, critiquing it, understanding how it works, understanding what it means for our careers, for language and art overall. If you want to work in writing, or archiving, or an artistic field, or anything the English major sets you up for, you NEED to really take the time to understand and properly critique AI. It's a fact of the industry now, and higher education at large hasn't caught up to that yet. I personally really dislike genAI but I recommend this class to everyone because it's just extremely relevant and useful. Also, Snelson is very cool, gracious, and smart. If you like a more open-ended, creatively driven course, you'll enjoy this and find it relatively easy.
Fall 2023 - Senior coming back to drop a review on my favorite class. When I took electronic lit, ChatGPT had just launched to the public. Snelson was the first professor I had that addressed it, he changed the entire course to focus on learning about generative AI, critiquing it, understanding how it works, understanding what it means for our careers, for language and art overall. If you want to work in writing, or archiving, or an artistic field, or anything the English major sets you up for, you NEED to really take the time to understand and properly critique AI. It's a fact of the industry now, and higher education at large hasn't caught up to that yet. I personally really dislike genAI but I recommend this class to everyone because it's just extremely relevant and useful. Also, Snelson is very cool, gracious, and smart. If you like a more open-ended, creatively driven course, you'll enjoy this and find it relatively easy.
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