COURSE DESCRIPTION BOOKLET Undergraduate Level Courses

Aim: Digital texts and digital libraries offer us new opportunities for searching and accessing literary
material. More interesting and exciting than the mere searching of digital texts is the ability to leverage
computation in order to process and analyze textual data, to provide new methods for reading, analyzing,
and understanding literature.
Throughout this course we will investigate ways of reading, interpreting, and understanding literature at
the macroscale, as an aggregate system. Our "text" for the class will be a corpus of several thousand
British and American novels. We will consider theoretical issues, read and discuss landmark essays in
the field, and develop an understanding of how digital libraries and literary corpora are inviting new
types of literary research and challenging some of our conventional approaches.
Much of the course will revolve around the construction and execution of a collaborative research
project. Students will collectively form a research question and design and implement an approach to
investigate the problem.
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Tentative Reading List:
Garelick, R – 003
“Great Collaborations of the American Stage”
Dooling, R – 005
“The Legal and Business Aspects of Creative Activity”
Aim : This course will provide theoretical and practical resources for undergraduate
and graduate students who want to build a career based on creative activity.
The course will introduce students to the basic legal and business principles governing creative endeavors,
including: “pitching'” and protecting ideas, securing representation (lawyers, agents, managers), basic principles
of contract, copyright, and intellectual property laws, clearing and licensing rights, and how not to get sued or
taken advantage of while creating, borrowing, and collaborating with other artists and entrepreneurs.
The goal is to teach artists and entrepreneurs how to protect themselves and their projects and ideas, until success
provides the wherewithal to secure professional representation from agents, lawyers, managers, investors, and
business partners. As such, the course should also appeal to students who may be interested in careers as talent
representatives, producers, or investors in the arts.
For more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dooling
Class is cross listed with THEA 398-005, THEA 898-005, Arts 4/898A-005, MUSC 4/898-005, JOUR 4/891-
005
UNL DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, SPRING 2014 – 29