By the end of this course, you will have
- become acquainted with some of the major debates in the field of Digital Humanities (DH), in particular those related to language and literature
- explored some of the ways that new technologies have become a part of humanistic research in the 21st century - curation, analysis, editing, modeling
- experimented with some of the basic tools, technical skills, environments in the field, and gained a deeper hands-on knowledge of a few of these
- explored what linguistic and literary data is, where it can be found and how, and in what formats, it might be generated
- gained an appreciation for scalar thinking in the language and literature
- considered how digital humanistic work, while initially about formalization, has a rich qualitative aspect
- been exposed to the visual rhetorics and aesthetics of digital research
begun to build your own professional scholarly network - gained an appreciation for collaborative forms of research, teaching and professional communication
- reflected on what it means to do digital research in the Arab World in 2013
What you will not do in this course:
- always speak in the abstract and theoretical
- learn to write code for computers
- read and discuss paper-based, linear arguments
- be ready to embark on a sophisticated building project in DH
- formulate a thesis topic