| 1 | Introduction Jorge Furtado: L’île aux fleurs |
| 2 | Hypertext and Multiple Perspectives Vannevar Bush: "As We May Think" Theodor Nelson: Excerpts from Literary Machines Visual Narrative Project |
| 3 | Hypertext and Its Literary Origins Jorge Luis Borges: "The Garden of the Forking Paths" and "The Library of Babel" |
| 4 | Authorship/Readership Wolfgang Iser: "The Reading Process" Roland Barthes: "The Death of the Author" Robert Goldberg: "Talmud" Telling Stories with Photos (Guest Speaker) |
| 5 | Experimental Literature Raymond Queneau: Cent Mille Milliard de poems Texts by the OULIPO Group (Georges Perec, Raymond Queneau) Julio Cortazar: Ryuela Paul Fournel: Suburbia David Small: The Talmud Project and Illuminated Manuscript |
| 6 | Encyclopedic Narratives Dante: Divine Comedy (Purgatory) James Joyce: Finnegans Wake Arno Schmidt: Zettels Traum Peter Greenaway: Dante’s Inferno |
| 7 | Visual Narratives Class Presentations |
| 8 | Audio Narratives: Creating Spaces with Audio Walter Ruttmann: Weekend (1929) and Remixes (1998) Visual Narratives: Class Presentations (cont.) |
| 9 | Narrative Spaces in Film Walter Ruttman, Berlin - Symphony of the City Dziga Vertov: The Man with the Movie Camera |
| 10 | The City as Narrative Space Paul Wühr: Soundseeing Munich (1987) Bill Fontana: Sound-Bridge Cologne-Kyoto (1993) Audio Project |
| 11 | Narratives and Databases Lev Manovich: Database |
| 12 | The End or the Future of Narratives Janet Murray/Sven Birkerts: Authors @ MIT (Video)
Audio Project: Presentations |
| 13 | Audio Project: Presentations |
| 14 | Hypertext Fiction, Net Literature Michael Joyce: Afternoon Stuart Moulthrop: Victory Garden Shelley Jackson : Patchwork Girl |
| 15 | Interactive Narratives and Virtual Spaces (Guest Speaker) Janet Murray: Properties of Digital Media |
| 16 | Interactive Narrative Projects at Media Lab’s Interactive Cinema Group (Guest Speaker) Joseph Weizenbaum: ELIZA |
| 17 | Multi-linear Narratives: Run Lola Run, Sliding Doors, Groundhog Day |
| 18 | Multi-perspective Narratives in Film: Memento, Time Code, Groundhog Day Narratives in Games |
| 19 | Multi-perspective Narratives in Film: Run Lola Run, Sliding Doors |
| 20 | Interactive Narratives Gilberte Furstenberg: A la rencontre de Philippe Interactive Movie: Tender Loving Care |
| 21 | Dialogical Narratives Douglas Morgenstern: No recuerdo and ELIZA Analysis of Games and Their Narrative Structures |
| 22 | Emergent Narratives Ellen Crocker/Kurt Fendt: Berliner sehen Analysis of Games and Their Narrative Structures |
| 23 | Game Presentations |
| 24 | Game Presentations |
| 25 | Final Project Presentations |
| 26 | Final Project Presentations |