WEEKLY COURSE SCHEDULE
This class is a blended course. This means that we will complete coursework and discussion in a virtual environment and you will also responsible for completing portions of the course independently. You will be expected to fully participate in both aspects of the course and to attend all the scheduled class meetings. You are responsible for completing and responding to all reading assignments, according to the blog guidelines as described on the Assignments page.
| Week /Topics | Readings | Activities – Intern Hours | Assignments |
| SEMESTER 1 | |||
| Week 1: September 23 Digital Technology is not Neutral | Hybrid Pedagogy: Principals of Learning in the Digital Age Emily Drabinski, “Ideologies of Boring Things: The Internet and Infrastructures of Race“ Elijah Meeks, An Introduction to Digital Humanities | ||
| Week 2: September 30
What is digital humanities? What is data in the humanities? | William G. Thomas, “What we think we build..” Trevor Owens, Please Write It Down Miriam Posner, “How did they make that?” Paige Morgan, “What do Digital Humanists Do?” | Blog post – readings | |
| Week 3: October 7 What is metadata? | NISO, “Understanding Metadata” Introduction to Zotero | Blog post – readings | |
| Week 4: October 14 Data mining and data curation | Miriam Posner, Humanities Data as a Necessary Contradiction | Blog post – readings | |
| Week 5: October 19 | Christoph Schoch, Big? Smart? Clean? Messy? Data in the Humanities Introduction to dLOC | ||
| Week 5: October 21 Electronic Texts and Text Encoding | Nebraska CDRH, Basic Guide to Text Encoding Introduction to XML TEI by Example Video Tutorial, Introduction to XML and TEI Video Tutorial, Encoding with TEI | ||
| Week 6: October 28 Topic Modeling | Megan R. Brett, Topic Modeling: A Basic Introduction Introduction to Voyant YouTube Tutorial on Voyant | ||
| Week 7: November 2/4 | NO CLASSES – MIDTERM BREAK | Introduction to Markdown | |
Week 8: November 9 | Introduction to Omeka Introduction to Neatline | Introduction to Knight Lab – StoryMaps and Timeline | DH Project Review #1 –November 8 Blog post – readings |
| Week 8: November 11 Introduction to Caribbean Literary History | Kaiama Glover, The Caribbean Digital: Pioneering the Caribbean Digital Kelly Baker Josephs, “DH Moments, Caribbean Considerations” | ||
Week 9: November 16 The project: introduction and methods | Laura Estill, Collaborative Knowledge and Student-Led Design Douglas Seefeldt and William G Thomas, III, “What is digital history?” | Blog post – readings | |
| Week 9: November 18 Designing DH research; DH project management | Carole Palmer, Thematic Research Collections Daniel Pitti, Designing Sustainable Projects and Publications | ||
| Week 10: November 23 Minimal Computing | Introduction to Minimal Computing Alex Gil, The User, The Learner and the Machines we Make Introduction to Wax (prior computer prep) | Introduction to Github Class visit by Alex Gil | Blog post – readings |
| Week 10: November 25 Minimal Computing | Introduction to Jekyll (prior computer prep) | ||
| Week 11: November 30 Understanding research in the context of DH Digital preservation | |||
| Week 11: December 2 Use of Archives and primary sources Use of secondary sources | DH Project Review #2 – December 1 | ||
| Week 12: December 7 How to read, write, show/tell | |||
| Week 12: December 9 | |||
| December 15 | Intern blog reflection due – Prompt TBD | ||
| SEMESTER TWO | |||
| Week /Topics | Readings/Tools | Activities/ Intern Hours | Assignments Due |
| Week 1: January 11/13 The project | Spreadsheet data cleaning | ||
| Week 2: January 17/19 The Project | Schuyler Esprit, Library as Text, Place and Tool Kate Theimer, Archives in Context and as Context | Spreadsheet data cleaning | Reading blog post |
| Week 3: January 25 Use of Archives, primary sources and secondary sources | Introduction to Hypothes.is Introduction to Twine | Spreadsheet data cleaning | |
| Week 3: January 27 How to read, write, show/tell | Introduction to Twine | Spreadsheet data cleaning | Progress Report |
| Week 4: February 1 Telling Stories in Space and Place | Jo Guldi, What is the Spatial Turn? Jo Guldi, The Spatial Turn in Literature Introduction to ArcGIS | Reading blog post | |
| Week 4: February 3 The Spatial Turn cont’d | Eric Steiner, The Spatial History Project Introduction to ArcGIS | Proposal for Individual Projects Due | |
| Week 5: February 8 Revisiting Text Encoding | Nebraska CDRH, Basic Guide to Text Encoding Introduction to XML Video Tutorial, Introduction to XML and TEI | Progress report | |
| Week 5: February 10 Revisting Text Encoding | TEI by Example Video Tutorial, Encoding with TEI Library of TEI Guidelines | DH Project Review 1 – Year 1 DH Project Review 3 – Year 2 | |
| Week 6: February 15 | Megan R. Brett, Topic Modeling: A Basic Introduction Introduction to Voyant YouTube Tutorial on Voyant | Feedback on Proposals returned | |
| Week 6: February 17 | Introduction to Voyant | Progress Report | |
| Week 7: February 22 Digital Humanities and ethical storytelling | Introduction to Scalar | DH Project Review 2 – Year 1 | |
| Week 7: February 24 Ethical Concerns in DH and data visualization | Christina Boyles, Making and Breaking: Teaching Information Ethics through Curatorial Practice | Reading Blog Post | |
| Week 8: March 2 Digital humanities and the question of sustainability | Introduction to Creative Commons | Annotated Bibliography Due – Individual Projects | |
| Week 9: March 8/10 Digital humanities and the question of sustainability | DH Project Review 3 – Year 1 (March 11) | ||
Weeks 10 -13 Project Development | Individual Project development | Review of tools and project development | Progress report each week |
Week 14: April 12/14
| Individual Project Previews | NO BLOG POSTS |
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