Literature in the Digital Age – Online Course
Learn new ways of interpreting literary texts, from time-tested methods to computer-assisted practices such as distant reading.
Who is the course for?
This course is for people from all walks of life who enjoy reading literature and would like to know how literary scholars interpret texts in the digital age.
If you are a student looking for an introduction to literary analysis, ‘Literature in the Digital Age’ will provide that.
The only requirement is that you like to read and love to reflect your experience and discuss it with others.
This course is only facilitated at certain intervals. Learners are encouraged to support one another, share personal experiences, and see new perspectives.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to…
Reflect on the different lay and professional reading strategies that are available for reading literature today.
Describe the various media in which we read literature in the digital age.
Identify the strengths and weaknesses of different reading strategies.
Apply the core method of literary studies: close reading.
Investigate the various strategies you use on a daily basis as you read online texts.
Engage in a cooperative form of online reading called social reading.