intro-to-dh

Tuesday + Thursday, 9:30-10:45, 243 Kauke // Dr. Jacob Heil, 158D Andrews Library

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Your Final Project

This semester you have been exposed to only a handful of Digital Humanities tools and methods. Mostly we’ve tied this exploration to some of the more broad concepts in Digital Humanities. We discussed Prism and TEI Guidelines when talked about close reading in DH; we used Voyant and touched on topic modeling as we discussed distant reading; we worked with Regular Expressions and Python for making text files do what we need them to do, whether we’re cleaning data or writing bots.

Along the way we’ve also touched on the efficacy of these methods in exploring humanities research questions of all stripes. All the while, we’ve turned the humanistic on the tools and methods when possible, to interrogate and push against assumptions about the convergeance of “digital” and “humanities.”

For your final projects I’ll ask you to bring these two strains together in an exploration of a tool that you apply to a humanities (or humanities adjacent) question of your own. You’ll note that this is a conflation of two aspects of the syllabus covered under Assignments and Grading: the “low-barrier tool” exercise and the final project itself. The final projects can be completed by you alone, paired with a partner, or as part of a small team. The length of the proposal and presentation will grow accordingly, but not necessarily double (or triple, etc).


The Parts


Potential Tools/Approaches

Tools covered in class. You can continue to work with a tool or method with which we’ve worked in class.

Other Tools/Methods. Some of these we may have touched on in class but not fully explored. Others will be new to you altogether but should be something that you can learn in a reasonable amount of time.

Something Else? If there’s a different tool or method that you want to use, talk with me about it. You’ll have to frame it terms of the question that you want to ask: always fit the tool to the research question and not vice versa.


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