Digital Humanities and Text and Language Analysis

3 credits · Undergraduate

This course will concentrate on one of the first and most developed techniques in the digital humanities – textual analysis – and one of the newest – natural language processing. These two methods are used to study the range of language use, spanning from the literary to the informal. While the computational power of these programs is vast, the codes they use arise from the humanistic inquiries of careful readers, and are used to support critical analysis of texts. In these classes, textual and language analysis moves beyond counting and statistics to teach students to understand linguistics, genre, style, aspect, comparative analyses and literary interpretation in new ways.