Past MIT Courses

Faculty: Mary Erica Zimmer See MIT Schedule for times and locations Explores the impact of new technology on the recording and distribution of words and images in Europe from 1400-1800. Assignments include essays and online projects. Students participate...

TBA Stephanie Frampton

MW9:30-11am MIT 4-253 Jeffrey Ravel Explores the impact of new technology on the recording and distribution of words and images at three different times: the invention of the printing press ca. 1450; the adaptation of electricity to communication...

Wyn Kelley MW 9:30-11 2-103 Prereq: Two subjects in Literature 3-0-9 HASS-H, CI-M; Can be repeated for credit We think of the digital age as a time of tremendous innovation in literary technology, producing new authors on a mass scale, as well as...

Stephanie Frampton This course is about the power of books. From the Sumerian clay tablets of more than four millenia ago through to the spectacular emergence of the electronic text, the written word -- in all its forms -- has captivated the human mind...

(Same subject as CC.120[J]) J. Ravel, A. McCants Prereq: None Explores the impact of new technology on the recording and distribution of words and images at three different times: the invention of the printing press ca. 1450; the adaptation of electricity...