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Introduction to Digital Humanities

Designed for the Department of Digital Humanities, University of Victoria
Course by Dr. Kat Sark ​ 
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Course Outline: 

(Subject to changes / in progress)
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DATE

Week 1
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TOPICS

What is Digital Humanities
 
READINGS: 
  • Definitions: "an academic field concerned with the application of computational tools and methods to traditional humanities disciplines such as literature, history, and philosophy"
  • Matthew Kirschenbaum, “What Is Digital Humanities and What’s It Doing in English Departments?” ADE Bulletin 150, 2010 

DISCUSSION: What does Digital Humanities mean to you?

ASSIGNMENTS

Week 2 
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What is Digital Humanities, Part 2 

READINGS: 
  • Matthew K Gold. ed. Debates in the Digital Humanities, 2012: 
Tom Scheinfeldt, “Why Digital Humanities is ‘Nice’,” p. 59.
Bethany Nowviskie, “What Do Girls Dig,” p. 235.
Alan Liu, “Where is Cultural Criticism in the Digital Humanities,” p. 490.
Dave Parry, “The Digital Humanities or a Digital Humanism,” p. 429.

DISCUSSION: What is the future of Digital Humanities? 






Week 3
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i-Generation 

READINGS:  
  • Larry D. Rosen, Rewired: Understanding the i-Generation and the Way They Learn, 2010

DISCUSSION: What is the i-Generation? How is it different from other generations? 


ASSIGNMENT: Present some digital learning tools that are useful in your work and studies.

Week 4
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Data Prep and Presentations 

READINGS: 
  • Nancy Ide, Preparation and Analysis of Linguistic Corpora
  • John Unsworth, Knowledge Representation in Humanities Computing

DISCUSSION: What new presentations tool are available now?
ASSIGNMENT: Present an idea for a web project

Week 5 
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Digital Research Tools

LINKS:
  • Lisa Spiro, Digital Research Tools​

DISCUSSION: What new research tools are available now?


ASSIGNMENT:  Present a digital research tool that is useful for your project 

Week 6
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Digital Scholarship 

READINGS: 
  • New York Times, Digital Keys for Unlocking the Humanities’ Riches
  • Chronicle, Big Tent Digital Humanities 
  • Digital Humanities.org
  • Humanistica, The Manifesto  

DISCUSSION:  What are some key issues in digital scholarship? 





Week 7
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Analytic Tools

READINGS: 
  • Every Story has a Beginning, Entering the web of data​ 






Week 8
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E-books, Blogs, Wikis

CASE STUDIES:   
  • Weebly
  • Wordpress
  • Blogger
  • Google Books





Week 9
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Film, Music, Video games

READINGS:  
  • Ichiro Fujinaga and Susan Forscher Weiss, Music
  • Robert Kolker, Digital Media and the Analysis of Film
  • Willard McCarty, Modeling







Week 10 
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Conclusion

Project Presentations / Showcase 

Web design in culture courses
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ASSIGNMENT:  Present you digital project 

Resources: 

Online resources:  

  • Digital Humanities - Online teaching tools
  • Digital Humanities Now 
  • Alliance of Digital Humanities Organization - Resources 
  • Humanist - discussion forum
  • Association for Computers and the Humanities - Q&A
  • Paul Fyfe, Victoria Telecon 
  • Lisa Spiro, Digital Research Tools
  • Wiki​
  • Christopher Long, The Research Circle
  • Christopher Long, The Pedagogy of Blogging
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Books:

  • Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth, eds. A Companion to Digital Humanities, 2005
  • Matthew K Gold. ed. Debates in the Digital Humanities, 2012.
  • David M. Berry, Understanding Digital Humanities, 2012. 
  • N. Katherine Hayles, How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis, 2012. Anne Balsamo, Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at Work, 2011. 
  • Larry D. Rosen, Rewired: Understanding the i-Generation and the Way They Learn, 2010

Articles: 

  • Julia Flanders, “The Productive Unease of 21st-century Digital Scholarship.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 3, no. 3 (Summer 2009) 
  • Johanna Drucker, “Humanistic Theory and Digital Scholarship,” in Debates, pp. 85-95
  • Ted Underwood, “The methodologies we argue about, and the ones we use quietly” MLA 2012, Seattle
  • Jo Guldi, “What is the Spatial Turn?”, Spatial Humanities
  • Tanya Clement, “’A thing not beginning and not ending’: Using Digital Tools to Distant-Read Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans,” Literary and Linguistic Computing 23 (2008): 361-81
  • Darnton, Robert. “Google and the Future of Books” The New York Review of Books 56, no. 2 (February 12, 2009)
  • Cecire, Natalia. “The Visible Hand” Works Cited, May 3, 2011
  • Wardrip-Fruin, Noah. “Reading Digital Literature: Surface, Data, Interaction, and Expressive Processing.” In A Companion to Digital Literary Studies, edited by Ray Siemens and Susan Schreibman. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008
  • Cohen, Daniel J. “From Babel to Knowledge: Data Mining Large Digital Collections.” D-Lib Magazine 12, no. 3 (March 2006)
  • Witmore, Michael. “Text: A Massively Addressable Object.” Wine Dark Sea, December 31, 2010
  • Nunberg, Geoffrey. “Counting on Google Books.” The Chronicle of Higher Education, December 16, 2010, sec. The Chronicle Review
  • Nowviskie, Bethany. “What Do Girls Dig?” Bethany Nowviskie, April 7, 2011
  • Cohen, Dan. “The Ivory Tower and the Open Web: Introduction: Burritos, Browsers, and Books [Draft].” Dan Cohen, July 26, 2011


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