76-120 First-Year Seminar: CSI Underground Books & Printing

9 units, Carnegie Mellon University

This is a course devoted to solving unsolved crimes for realz. Well take on puzzling cases of illegal printing that have stymied investigators for hundreds of years. In working together to determine who may have been responsible for scandalous and illicit books, well learn about the history of censorship, the history of printing and typography, copyright and its discontents, crime syndicates, piracy, document forensics, and more. Well get our hands dirty with rare books from the 16th and 17th centuries and also see what we can discover using modern technology and data analysis. This is a course for students wholl enjoy the thrills of creatively aggregating and assessing evidence and the challenges of realworld humanities problems that span history, literature, and technology. Students should expect to work in teams and also to expect the unexpected. Who knows what well find With any luck, well be able to crack a few cases

Prerequisites: none listed

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