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I M M E R S I O N
and the Modern Art Work

Professor
J. Jennifer Jones

Course: Honors 319
Spring 2008

Overview
Schedule
Assignments
Student Writing

 

I will post exemplary essays to this area of the site during the course of the semester. Stay tuned!

Office & Office Hours

Independence 175B
T 12:30-1:45pm and by appointment

Course Location & Time

Fogarty Hall 120
T/R 2 - 3:15pm

Required Texts

Editor Caroline A. Jones, Sensorium: Embodied Experience, Technology, and Contemporary Art (MIT Press 2006)
ISBN: 0262101173

DVD: Bladerunner: The Final Cut, Dir. Ridley Scott. Starring Harrison Ford, Sean Young (2007).

Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age; or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Spectra 2000)
ISBN: 0553380966


 William Shakespeare / Editor Peter Holland, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Oxford UP 1998)
ISBN: 0192834207

Neil Gaiman / Introduction Samuel R. Delaney, The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You (Vertigo 1993)
ISBN: 1563890895

Plato / Translator Robin Waterfield, Phaedrus (Oxford 2002)
ISBN: 0192802771

John Sunderland, John Constable. (Phaidon 1993)
ISBN: 9780714827544

William Gaunt, Turner (Phaidon 1994)
ISBN: 9780714832333

Charles Avery, Bernini: Genius of the Baroque (Thames & Hudson 2006)
ISBN: 0500286337

DVD: Dancer in the Dark. Dir. Lars Von Trier. Starring Björk, Catherine Deneuve. 2000.

Diana Hacker. A Writer’s Reference. 5th Sprl edition. Bedford/St. Martin's P, 2003.
ISBN: 0312412622


Course Requirements

Participation (20%)
Formal Presentation (10%)
3 Short Essays (30%)
Seminar Paper (40%)