Postgraduate Course: Cultures of the Book (ENLI11094)

Course Outline
School	School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures	College	College of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	20	ECTS Credits	10
Summary	This course is designed to introduce students to the study of Book History from manuscript culture to electronic text. It also serves to introduce students to the range of expertise and resources in the study of Book History at the University of Edinburgh and in the city. It is structured in five sections: materiality, textuality, printing and reading, authorship and intermediality, and remediation. It aims both to ground students in the theoretical and practical understandings they need to begin advanced independent research in Book History, and to introduce them to the leading-edge of debates in the field, at a moment when the media ecology we inhabit is being transformed and the interdisciplinary field of Book History must work hard to catch up.
Course description	Week 1 Introduction SECTION 1: MATERIALITY Week 2 Reading the Printed Codex Week 3 Manuscripts: Scroll to Codex SECTION 2: TEXTUALITY Week 4 Copy Text Week 5 Authorial Intentions SECTION 3: PRINTING AND READING Week 6 Printing on the Hand Press 1 Week 7 Printing on the Hand Press 2 SECTION 4: AUTHORSHIP AND INTERMEDIALITY Week 8 Authorship and Publishing Week 9 Books in the Media Ecology SECTION 5: REMEDIATION Week 10 What Next for the Book?

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1)		Quota: None
Course Start	Semester 1
Course Start Date	21/09/2015
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 200 ( Seminar/Tutorial Hours 20, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 176 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	Assessment will be an essay of 4000 words, selected from a range of prescribed topics, to be submitted by the end of Semester 1, as sepecified in the programme handbook
Feedback	Not entered
No Exam Information

Learning Outcomes
This course aims both to ground students in the theoretical and practical understandings they need to begin advanced independent research in Book History, and to introduce them to the leading-edge of debates in the field, at a moment when the media ecology we inhabit is being transformed and the interdisciplinary field of Book History must work hard to catch up.