Kretzschmar, William
TR 2 :20 PM
Library, Main 0300
Catalog: ENGL/LING 4885/6885: A general introduction to the use of computers in humanistic study. Students will be exposed to the theoretical literature of humanistic computing and to several specific techniques popular among computing humanists. Students will also be expected to generate critical work and to complete a web-based project.
This course will survey the field of digital humanities, including its history and principles. Applications in digital humanities will be featured, so that students will be able to imagine and create a project themselves. Literary and linguistic topics will be covered including text analysis and corpora, and additional topics will receive treatment in line with the interests of students in the course. Visualizations will be a special focus. All students will be expected to create computer programs related to digital humanities: ARTI students' projects will be expected to show better programming, ENGL/LING students' projects will be expected to show better humanities content. Each student will pursue a digital humanities topic of personal interest for a term project.