A great deal of class time had also been spent on basic computer concepts. Students wrote three short essays, one longer, research-oriented essay, a bibliographic web page, one brief writing exercise, and a midterm examination testing computer terms and concepts. Nevertheless, the center of the course has always been ideas and what technology has done, is doing, and might do to the history of ideas. The goals of the new course are rather different. It is now an intensive upper-division writing seminar.
Ideas are still at the center of the course, but so is a rigorous study of hypertext theory.
Professor Salomon is teaching the revised course this semester, Fall 2000.