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Course Syllabus
Description
Digital Humanities is a collaborative approach to scholarship that combines traditional forms of humanistic study with informational technologies. The emergence and adoption of informational technologies into the humanities is more than a means to an end; informational technologies have had and will have a significant and vital role in shaping scholarship within the humanities.
In this course, we will explore the core concepts undergirding digital humanities both theoretically and practically through guest lectures, discussion, and “hands-on” experience using information informational technologies—e.g. citation management, rss, spidering and scraping, html, text analysis, data mining, mapping—to increase your ability to do, collect, manage, manipulate, and publish your research. I do not expect, nor necessarily believe, that you will leave this class as a technically proficient programming digital humanist. I do expect, however, that you will leave this course with a greater understanding of the basic tools and “languages” of a digital humanist and their impact on humanistic study now and in the future
Requirements
Reading
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Tutorials, Assignments, Final Project
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Schedule
01 / Introduction
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07 / Conclusion
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in our wired world, it’s essential that we all gain some control over the technology that increasingly pervades our lives. … Being able to fix your car when it breaks down is a tremendous skill to have. Being able to bend computers to your will is even more so, since here we’re dealing with information technology—a medium of thought and communication as vital to the transmission of ideas as the ability to use a pen.
The Web is not just some frivolous vehicle for entertainment and virtual community. Going forward, it’s going to be a vital aspect of human endeavor and an important lynchpin in affecting the human condition.
What does it mean to study “literature” or “history” when print is no longer the normative medium in which literary or historical artifacts are produced, let alone analyzed? What does it mean, more generally, for humanistic knowledge?