1998/9: Welcome back: I hope you had a great summer. The Bibliography course this session is called Literature and the Internet, and will be taught in two weekly sessions, on Tuesdays at 3.00 pmn and Thursdays at 3.00 pm. The first meeting will be on Tuesday of week 2. The teaching method will be the usual combination of seminar, lecture, and dazzling multimedia experience. The course is a dry run for a Masters course that I hope to be teaching next year, so it is particularly important to me; what I hope you will get from it is some extremely useful skills and some (to me, at least) extremely interesting things to think about. It comes in two streams. One is practical: how to make well-formed web pages. The second year course taught you the basics; now we are looking at issues like: layout and design, the basics the economy of the web (download time and bandwidth issues) colour (different browsers see colour differently; chaos can ensue) efficient hypertext structuring images in more detail: gifs and jpegs using Photoshop (if you also have a life) and so on. The other is theoretical: what is the Web, what can we do with it, and what can it do to us? In the context of Literature. This will cover issues like: Internet user skills discrimination and authority theory and practice of hypertext what is / should be a Web-based literature like? what the Web can do, and not do the Web and the book and so on Towards the end of the course the two halves will come together in that you will start to work on the assessment, which is the creation of a Web site (done individually, not in groups) on a theme arising from the work in the second stream of the course, that is, on Literature and the Internet. This must be a substantial piece of work, and will count as one Finals assessment unit. To be submitted at the beginning of the following term. Because I will be on study leave in semester 2 this course will be taught in two one-hour sessions per week, all in semester 1, instead of one hour a week for two semesters. We will start with a crash course on design and layout. This will be based on a brilliant book entitled The Non-Designer's Design Book, by Robin Williams. You don't need to buy this book, but you would benefit if you did.