Instructor: Derek Miller
Monday, 3:45-5:45pm | Location: Lamont 401
Conference seminar course (open to both undergraduates and graduates)
This course introduces practical skills in programming for the Digital Humanities (DH) and investigates the theories and debates that continue to define that field. We will focus primarily on DH’s applications to research questions, rather than on pedagogical or archival methods. The course critiques DH’s ideas and practices while also recognizing that the best critiques come from deep knowledge. To that end, our exploration of DH methods will involve hands-on exercises, suited to your current comfort with computers and your desire to improve your skills. Our practical work with coding and with pre-fabricated digital tools will teach us what happens to our thinking when we think about the humanities with computers.