HUMA2500
10 units
2000 level
Course handbook
Description
The emerging discipline of digital humanities encompasses a wide range of activities and practices: creating digital editions, curating and analysing “big data”, studying hardware and software, and even writing original computer programs. Therefore, it is sometimes likened to a “big tent” that covers a range of approaches, activities, disciplines, and international perspectives. It encourages collaboration and experimentation, and it offers new ways to frame and answer enduring questions. This course introduces students to digital tools and methods for research in the humanities. It examines the benefits and costs of digital and computational approaches to humanities study. It explores the different kinds of data relevant to students in these disciplines, the uses of data, and relevant rhetorical and ethical considerations. The course considers how theoretical insights from the humanities and social sciences might usefully be applied to digital technologies including hardware and software, the internet, and social media.
Availability
Not currently offered.
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the course students will be able to:
1. Use a range of digital tools and methods for research in the humanities.
2. Identify digital and computational solutions to questions and problems in the humanities.
3. Develop an original research question or problem that can be solved using digital tools and methods.
4. Create data sets and simple data visualisations.
5. Summarise and assess results.
Content
Topics include:
- The history of computation in the humanities
- The place of technology in education and academic disciplines
- Digital and computational approaches used in the humanities
- Research design
- The use of data in humanities research, including rhetorical and ethical considerations
- Technology as an object of humanistic inquiry
Assumed knowledge
20 units of study at the 1000 level
Assessment items
Log / Workbook: Log/workbook
Tutorial / Laboratory Exercises: Tutorial/laboratory exercises
Compulsory Requirement: Submit assessment item - Must submit this assessment to pass the course.
Project: Project
Report: Report
Course outline
Course outline not yet available.
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