Digital Humanities:ToolsMeth

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

The Digital Humanities is a huge and growing field spanning many disciplines and skill sets. The focus of this course is on tools and methods that allow students to collect, create and analyze textual corpora as purveyors of stories, information. This is the point of view often taken by analysts who work for universities, think tanks and intelligence agencies who seek to understand cultural trends and mindsets from volumes of digital texts. For such analysts, close reading is an indispensable part of their work and computing tools help focus their reading while reading helps refine their understanding of the computer output. The course will give students intensive practice with digital text analytics methods and tools. The students will be able to collect and analyze social media data at the word and sentence level. The students will be also introduced to an array of practical Digital Humanities Tools and Applications.