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Course work for my PhD in Communication and Information Science:

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Portfolio of CIS Work

Fall 2002:

LING 640G: Cognitive Linguistics

• Assignment 1 (17 Sep 2002)
• Assignment 2 (04 Oct 2002)
• Assignment 3 (22 Oct 2002)
• Assignment 4 (12 Nov 2002)
• Project Proposal (21 Nov 2002)
• Project: Spatial Frames (18 Dec 2002)

ICS 667: Advanced HCI Design Methods

• Assignment 1 (10 Sep 2002)
• Assignment 2 (24 Sep 2002)
• Assignment 3 (01 Oct 2002)
• Assignment 4 (08 Oct 2002)
• Project (Assignments 5 6 7 8)
• Final Exam (20 Dec 2002)

Spring 2003:

ICS 212: Program Structure (C/C++)

Text files are typescripts of code and the output of programs; zip files contain all necessary source files.

• Assignment 1: hello.c (zip)
• Assignment 2: assign2.txt (zip)
• Assignment 3: assign3.txt (zip)
• Assignment 4: assign4.txt (zip)
• Assignment 5: assign5.txt (zip)
• Assignment 6: assign6.txt (zip)
• Assignment 7: assign7.txt (zip)
• Assignment 8: assign8.txt (zip)
• Assignment 9: assign9.txt (zip)
• Assignment 10: assign10.txt (zip)
• Assignment 11: assign11.txt (zip)
• Assignment 12: assign12.txt (zip)

CIS 701: Communication/Information Theories of Society

• Paper 1: Littlejohn's Theories of Human Communication (1/3) (23 Jan 2003)
• Paper 2: Pirsig's Lila (30 Jan 2003)
• Paper 3: Littlejohn's Theories of Human Communication (2/3) (6 Feb 2003)
• Paper 4: Fiske's Intro. to Communication Studies (13 Feb 2003)
• Paper 5: Littlejohn's Theories of Human Communication (3/3) (20 Feb 2003)
• Paper 6: Lakoff & Johnson's Metaphors We Live By (27 Feb 2003)
• Paper 7: Harvey's Condition of Postmodernity (6 Mar 2003)
• Paper 8: Aristotle's Categories and On Interpretation (13 Mar 2003)
• Paper 9: Langer's Philosophy in a New Key (20 Mar 2003)
• Project: Communication through Architecture (08 May 2003)

Fall 2003:

ICS 491-2: Interactive Narrative

• The Koshan Conspiracy (10 Sep 2003)
• Group Project, Part 1 (17 Sep 2003)
• Group Project, Part 2 (06 Oct 2003)
• Group Project, Part 3 (10 Nov 2003)
• Group Project, Part 4 (19 Dec 2003)

CIS 703: Communication/Information Research Methods

• Reseaching Web Metaphors, Part 1 (29 Sep 2003)
• Reseaching Web Metaphors, Part 2 (13 Oct 2003)
• Article Critique (03 Nov 2003)
• Project Proposal (03 Nov 2003)
• Alternate Qualitative Methods (17 Nov 2003)
• Project: Finding Web Metaphors (08 Dec 2003)
• Slide Presentation: Finding Web Metaphors (08 Dec 2003)

Spring 2004:

ITM 357: Networking

• [Tests and short answer assignments; no papers]

ICS 651: Computer Networks

• Project 1: Simple IP Router Implementation (C/Zip)
• Project 2: Simple TCP Implementation (C/Zip)
• Project 3: HTTP Link Checking Bot (Perl/Zip)

Fall 2004:

ICS 499-9: Computer Project (Narrative Game Design)

• [General programming; no papers]

CIS 702: Communication/Information Technologies

• Week 2: Reading Questions (03 Sep 2004)
• Week 3: Reading Questions (10 Sep 2004)
• Week 4: Reading Questions (17 Sep 2004)
• Week 5: Reading Questions (24 Sep 2004)
• Week 6: Reading Questions (01 Oct 2004)
• Week 7: Reading Questions (08 Oct 2004)
• Enrichment Reading: Victoria Lady Welby (08 Oct 2004)
• Week 8: Reading Questions (15 Oct 2004)
• Week 9: Reading Questions (22 Oct 2004)
• Week 10: Reading Questions (29 Oct 2004)
• Week 11: Reading Questions (05 Nov 2004)
• [Missed] (12 Nov 2004)
• Week 13: Reading Questions (19 Nov 2004)
• Project Proposal: Theories of Interactive Narrative. (19 Nov 2004)
• Week 14: Reading Questions (03 Dec 2004)
• Enrichment Reading: Affective Wearables (03 Dec 2004)
• Final Project: Theories of Interactive Narrative (15 Dec 2004)

Spring 2005:

LLEA 270: Freaks and Monsters

• [Predominately exams]
• Extra credit paper: Kafka's The Metamophosis

ICS 699-3: Directed Reading (Theories of Interactive Narrative)

• Syllabus/Reading Schedule
• Meadows' Pause and Effect
• Aristotle's Poetics
• Freytag's Technique of the Drama
• Laurel's Computers as Theatre
• Paper: Foundations of Interactive Narrative

Fall 2005:

ICS 699-2: Directed Reading (Theories of Interactive Narrative)

• Reading Schedule
• Grasbon & Braun
• Proppian Projects
• Oz Projects
• Zach's Framework/Project notes
• Micheal Mateas and Facade
• Chris Crawford and Erasmatron
• Nikitas Sgouos and DEFACTO
• Nicolas Szilas and IDtension
• Paper: Applications of Interactive Narrative

ENG 760J: Narrative Theory and Criticism--Narration in Fiction and Film

• Oral Report: Overt Narration in The French Lieutenant's Woman (27 Sep 2005)
• Oral Report: Omniscient Narration in The French Lieutenant's Woman (04 Oct 2005)
• Overt Narration in the Film The French Lieutenant's Woman (14 Oct 2005)
  [revised (pdf) - 17 Oct 2005]
• Annotated Bibliography (02 Dec 2005)
• Adaptation of Memento (09 Dec 2005)

Spring 2006:

ICS 699-3: Directed Reading (Theories of Interactive Narrative)

• Task Schedule
• Article: A Reconstructed Neo-Aristotelian Theory of Interactive Narrative (PDF)

ENG 394: Junior Honors Seminar--Digital Literature Theory + Practice

• Scholarly Review: Navigating a Hypertext :: These Waves of Girls.
• Creative Project: Process

Fall 2006:

ICS 699-2: Directed Reading (Practical Interactive Narrative)

• Task Schedule

ICS 699-6: HCI Study Group [2 credits]

• Conceptual Overview Sketch of HCI and Interaction Design

Spring 2007:

ICS 699-3: Directed Reading (Interactive Narrative Design) [5 credits]

• Weekly Record of Time Spent

Fall 2007:

ICS 699-2: Directed Reading (Interactive Narrative Design) [5 credits]

• Weekly Record of Time Spent

Spring 2008:

CIS 800-19: Dissertation Research

• Argax Project

Fall 2008:

CIS 800-23: Dissertation Research

• Argax Project

Spring 2009:

CIS 800-19: Dissertation Research

• Argax Project

Fall 2009:

CIS 800-23: Dissertation Research

• Argax Project

Spring 2010:

CIS 800-19: Dissertation Research

• Argax Project

Fall 2010:

CIS 800-23: Dissertation Research

• Argax Project

Spring 2011:

CIS 800-19: Dissertation Research

• Argax Project

Summer 2011:

CIS 800-803: Dissertation Research

• Argax Project
• Dissertation: Marlinspike: An Interactive Drama System (PDF)