Kretzschmar, William
TR 2 :20 PM
Library, Main 300
ENGL/LING 4885/6885 Spring 2023 Kretzschmar TTH 2:20-3:35, DigiLab (Library)
Introduction to Digital Humanities
Office: 313 Park. Email:kretzsch@uga.edu. Office Hours: TTH 8:30-9:30 in person, via Skype (bill.kretzschmar) and by appointment (email me to set one up).
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.
Texts: Schwartz, Foy, and Phoenix, Learning Perl, 8th ed. (O'Reilly, 2021). Chapters from CDH and LSDA are provided on eLC: A Companion to Digital Humanities, 2nd ed., ed. Schreibman, Siemens, and Unsworth (Blackwell, 2016); Literary Studies in the Digital Age, ed. Price and Siemens (MLA, 2013; available online https://dlsanthology.commons.mla.org/).
Course Conduct: In person lecture/discussion. On Thursdays, we will work on Perl programming. While ENGL 4885/6885 students need not have extensive experience with computer programming before the course, they must be willing to learn the terms, concepts, and techniques in use for such work. Quantitative techniques (i.e. statistics) will be discussed as needed, but students will not be required to run statistics on their data sets. There will be five in-class tests and no final exam ("continuous assessment"). There will be one short paper (5 pp) and a major paper due at the end of the term (c. 10-15 pp undergrad, c. 20 pp. grad). Papers will be argumentative essays prepared according to standard practices for academic papers, and include appropriate use of the scholarly literature. There will be a proposal (2-3 pp) for the final paper. In place of a final paper, students may choose to create a computer program or Web site of equivalent complication, and document it with a 5 pp paper. Grades will be based on class attendance (90 pts), the five in-class exams (250 pts), the short paper (100 pts), and the final paper (50 pts proposal, 150 pts final paper). 640 total points. Course info will be on the Web at the UGA eLC (elc.uga.edu).
Goals and Topics: 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. Each student will pursue a digital humanities topic of personal interest for a term project.
Schedule: (LL entires are links to units on the Linked In Learning site; WK are class lectures)
Jan 10, 12 T: Course intro. Th: eLC 1: Hockey, Install Perl
Jan 17, 19 T: eLC 2:Laue, WK:strings Th: Install Notepad++/CMD, Perl 1
Jan 24, 26 T: WK: ASCII/lg/font , plain text Th: Perl 2, EX 1
Jan 31, Feb 2 T: WK: scan/OCR, Th: Install AntConc, Perl 3
Feb 7, 9 T: WK:corpus, Antconc, Th: Download/use corpora, Perl 4
Feb 14, 16 T: eLC 3: Burrows, eLC 4: Hoover Th: how to write a paper, incl authoritative
info, citation, structure, argument, license; EX 2
Feb 21, 23 T: eLC 5: Renear, WK: TEI Th: LL 1: HTML Essential Training, Perl 5
Feb 28, Mar 2 T: eLC 6: Thomas, WK: Quant anal. Th: Statistics, Perl 6
Mar 7, 9 No class, Spring Break
Mar 14, 16 T: LL 2: Learning R, short paper due Th: LL3: Data Science Foundations: Data Mining (only R to reduce time), EX 3
Mar 21, 23 T: LL 4: NLP, WK: Vectors/Word2vec Th: eLC 7: McCarty, Perl 7 (withdrawal deadline)
Mar 28, 30 T: WK:complexity (CS) Th: WK: CS quant,, Perl 8, proposal due
Apr 4, 6 T: WK: databases, LAP DB Th: Access, EX 4
Apr 11, 13 T: LL 5: Learning SQL Programming Th: LL 6: Learning MySQL Development, Perl 9
Apr 18, 20 T: eLC 8: Liu, WK: Web 3.0/IoT Th: eLC 9: Kretzschmar (GIS)
Apr 25, 27 T: WK:CA, WK:simulation/GISCA Th: WK: PointPattern, EX 5
May 5 No class; Paper due by email.
eLC 1: Hockey, A Companion to Digital Humanities, 1: The History of Humanities Computing
eLC 2: Laue: A Companion to Digital Humanities, 13: How the Computer WorksCooney et al., eLC 3: Burrows, A Companion to Digital Humanities, 23: Textual Analysis
eLC 4: Hoover, Literary Studies in the Digital Age, 4: Textual Analysis
eLC 5: Renear, A Companion to Digital Humanities, 17: Text Encoding
eLC 6: Thomas, A Companion to Digital Humanities, 5: Computing and the Historical Imagination
eLC 7: McCarty, A Companion to Digital Humanities, 19: Modeling
eLC 8: Liu, Literary Studies in the Digital Age, 2: From Reading to Social Computing
eLC 9: Kretzschmar, Literary Studies in the Digital Age, 6: GIS for Language and Literary Study
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