Please note: Information on this page relates to the 2012 academic year unless otherwise specified.
On this page:
- Overview
- Undergraduate Information
- Postgraduate Information
- How To Find Out More
- Related Subjects and Careers
- List of Courses
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Overview
In the new knowledge economy, 'book' might be a four-letter word, but it's also an endlessly fascinating and seductive material object to study. Hold a page up to the light and read its distinctive signature, sniff the edges for the tell-tale aroma of vinegar, riffle a volume to hear the music of its binding, run your finger down the spine to expose the fake cords, taste the animal glue brushed onto the paper.
Books provide a fascinating window onto the transmission of human knowledge and the complex web of social, cultural, economic and political relationships which produce, consume and preserve them. Text Technologies situate books and printing along a continuum of communication forms, both historical and contemporary, and across many different cultures. Whether oral performance or graffiti, illuminated manuscript or born digital document, cave painting or Kindle, ‘texts’ broadly speaking and their material and cultural agency are at the heart of this multi-disciplinary area of study.
Enhance and extend your major or minor by dipping into the world of texts and technologies and you will be amazed and astounded by the richness and complexity of those media forms we so often take for granted.
Undergraduate Information
Text Technologies is not available as a major for the Bachelor of Arts (BA), but the courses are part of the BA schedule and may be counted towards the BA.
Postgraduate Information
TXTT 401 Print Culture Aotearoa / New Zealand is available for BA(Hons) and INFO 536 Books and the Information Society and INFO 531 Resources for New Zealand Studies are available towards the Master of Information Studies
How To Find Out More
You can order more information on this subject using our Request for Study Material form.
Victoria's Student Recruitment, Admission and Orientation Office offers advice on courses and help with planning your degree.
Contact the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences' Student and Academic Services Office for information on admission, qualifications and courses, course advice and selection criteria, exemptions and prerequisites.
Text Technologies courses are taught within Wai-te-ata Press.
Wai-te-ata Press: Te Whare Tā o Waiteata
Rankine Brown (Library) Room 006, Kelburn Campus
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Related Subjects and Careers
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Architecture History and Theory |
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List of Courses
| 200 Level Text Technologies Courses |
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TXTT 201 – Print, Communication and Culture |
| 300 Level Text Technologies Courses |
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TXTT 301 – Special Topic: Entangled Print Cultures, Canada in the British World |
| 400 Level Text Technologies Courses |
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TXTT 401 – Print Culture Aotearoa / New Zealand |