Admission Requirements
None.
Description
This course consists of a series of partly obligatory, partly optional lectures, seminars, excursions and visits organized in relation to the field of expertise of Book and Digital Media Studies. The programme is flexible, and may be subject to change as a result of current developments. In any case, a series of BDMS lectures and a three-day combined visit to the Gutenburg Museum in Mainz and the Frankfurt Buch Fair from 12 to 14 October 2011 will be part of the programme, as is a one-day excursion to the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp at the end of the first semester. Students may be requested to assist in the organisation of events.
Course Objectives
Students learn to connect theoretical concepts with actual work practices, and develop their thinking on the broad context of books, cultural heritage and media.
Timetable
The timetable will be avialable by June 1st on www.hum.leidenuniv.nl/book-digital-media-studies.
Mode of Instruction
Visits, excursions, seminars, (guest) lectures.
Assessment
To finish the course successfully students have to write two short essays (2.000 to 3.000 words max. and 50%) each), each on a subject related to one of the events and in consultation with the course organizers. The first essay has to be handed in at the end of the first semester, the second at the end of the second semester.
Blackboard
This course is supported by blackboard.
Reading list
Information about the events, institutions, companies and programs visited available through blackboard.
Registration
Students should register through uSis. If you have any question please contact the departmental office, tel. 071 5272144 or mail: bookstudies@hum.leidenuniv.nl.
Contact information
Departmental Office Book and Digital Media Studies, P.N. van Eyckhof 4, room 102C. Tel. 071 5272144; mail: bookstudies@hum.leidenuniv.nl.
Coordinator of Studies Master: Ms. K. van der Zeeuw-Filemon, P.N. van Eyckhof 4, room 103C.
Remarks
No remarks.