Course schedule: (PDF of syllabus)
Introductions all around
“When I'm asked, I like to say that digital humanities is just one method for doing humanistic inquiry.” --Brian Croxall (from Whatisdigitalhumanties.com)
Tuesday, September 1st
Introduction to the class & each other
Introduce your selfie!
Read: syllabus & course website & blog, “What is Digital Humanities?” (also on blog), & "The Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0"
Thursday, September 3rd
Situating the Digital Humanities
Class planning: units & real-world connections
Blog sign-ups
Read: Preface (p. xi) and chapter 1: Digital Humanities Overview (p. 1),
Blog post 1: What is DH?
Unit 1: What in the digital humanities? Situate this
“Digital formats are ephemeral, vulnerable, and depend upon elaborate material infrastructures” (5).
Tuesday, September 8th
Discussion: What is Digital Humanities?
What’s involved? Materials, processing, presentation, & participation
In-class look at DH projects
Introduce Unit 1: DH project options/sign-ups
Read: Chapters 2: Data Modeling and Use (p. 11) & 3: Digitization (p.20)
Thursday, September 10th
Proposals/project sign-ups
Your project at first glance: purpose and audience
Blog post 2: Data & digitization
Tuesday, September 15th
Discussion: DH projects and purpose
Read: Chapters 4: Metadata, Markup, and data description (p. 29) & 5: Database design (p. 38)
Thursday, September 17th
In-depth project analysis: materials, process, presentation
Blog post 3: Metadata & databases
Tuesday, September 22nd
Discussion: Significance of metadata and design in DH projects
DH project analysis presentations
Thesis workshop
Introduce Unit 2 & Project Gutenberg
Chapters 6: Multimodal analysis & data mining (p. 47), “What is Distant Reading?” & “Problems of Scale”
Unit 2: Data mining & visualization: Analyze that
“Digital Humanities is not a unified field but an array of convergent practices that explore a universe,” -Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0
Thursday, September 24th
DH project analysis essay workshop
Read: Chapter 7: Information visualization (p. 57), Six Degrees of Francis Bacon, and Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
Blog post 4: Information visualization & distant reading
Tuesday, September 29th
DH analysis essays due!
Discussion: Quantitative data/DH tools for literary analysis
Proposals/Project Gutenberg text sign-ups
Introduction to Voyant tools
Practice exercise
Thursday, October 1st
Scholar consultation in groups
Share findings, compare/contrast
Worktime
Read: Quantifying Literature
Blog post 5: Data mining & quantifying literature
Tuesday, October 6th
Voyant findings/preliminary group presentations
Look at: JSTOR Curations, ArcGIS examples, & The Bremer W. Pond Collection & Then/Now project
Read: Chapters 8: Mapping and GIS (p. 73) & 9: Immersive and extended reality (XR) technologies (p. 84)
Thursday, October 8th
Discussion: Maps & VR
Virtual tourism, heritage
Introduce Unit 3 & curation project
Project teams: Department of Art & Art History & Milne Special Collections & Archives
Blog post 6: Maps & virtual spaces
Unit 3: Curate it/put it into practice
“I see a curator as a catalyst, generator and motivator - a sparring partner, accompanying the artist while they build a show, and a bridge builder, creating a bridge to the public.” -Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Tuesday, October 13th
No class. Classes follow a Wednesday schedule
Thursday, October 15th
Distant reading analysis essays due
First meeting with clients for curation projects!
Tuesday, October 20th
Library & CatLAB visits
Planning & materials
Thursday, October 22nd
Library & CatLAB visits
Materials collection
Blog post 7: Digital curation team planning/materials
Tuesday, October 27th
Client check-ins in classroom
Materials
& Processing
Collecting and organizing
Thursday, October 29th
Processing (in class)
Juxtapose or arcGIS
Preparing images, cataloguing, writing
Adding exhibit image, video, and textB
log post 8: Curation team processing/presentation
Tuesday, November 3rd
Presentation
Museum collections, JSTOR, arcGIS, Juxtapose, Instagram etc.
Introduce Unit 4 & ME-diation
Interface ideas & platform options
Thursday, November 5th
Potential client meetings for final questions/revisions
Introduce Unit 4 & ME-diation
Interface ideas & platform options
Read: Chapter 10: Interface (p. 94), My Body, a Wunderkammer by Shelley Jackson, Depression Quest by Zoe Quinn, &e-lit, what is it? by N. Katherine Hayles
Blog post 9: Interface & e-lit
Tuesday, November 10th
Curation projects due for final review
Discussion: e-lit, what is it? & interface: purpose and design
Platform reviews
Assessing your materials/artifacts
Last-minute curation project revisions/presentation preparation
Introduce mini-projects: Google MyMaps & Knightlab StoryMap for maps, Scene, Google Earth, & ThingLink for 360, & Twine for electronic literature
Unit 4: ME-diate: interface & web presentation
“A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction.” –Donna Haraway
Thursday, November 12th
Final Presentations to clients!
Discussion: Significance of website design and usability
Website analysis
Read: Chapters 11: Web presentation formats and networked resources (p. 106) & 13: Project design and intellectual property (p. 126)
Blog post 10: Web presentation & design
Tuesday, November 17th
Brainstorming, storyboarding, project planning
Curation team individual reflections due!
Look at Google MyMaps & Knightlab StoryMap for Thursday
Thursday, November 19th
Discussion: Significance of website design and usability
Website proposals/plans
Map workshop
Download & look at Twine for Tuesday (ctrl click to open for Macs)
Tuesday, November 24th
Twine story workshop
Look at Scene, Google Earth, & ThingLink for Thursday
Happy Thanksgiving break!
Tuesday, December 1st
360 tour workshop
Thursday, December 3rd
Workshop/usability testing
Revision worktime
Tuesday, December 8th
ME-diation presentations/workshop!
Thursday, December 10th
Last day of class!
ME-diation presentations/workshop!
Final website revisions/reflection due Monday, December 14th
Bonus blog: post your ME-diation to the blog! :)
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