This coming semester (Spring 2014), the Department of English is offering an upper-level undergraduate seminar that will enable students to engage with SFU Library’s rare book collection and encourage them to explore the implications of translating unique artifacts of local origin into global digital space.

The course is open to students in all disciplines interested in thinking critically about applying digital tools and methods to further our understanding of the role of transmission in producing interconnections between culture, history, and place. Students will learn how books have always functioned as technologies—not only as information technologies, but also often as multi-media events.