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Digital Humanities

ENGL 278.601
also offered as: COML 066, SAST 066, RUSS 066
instructor(s):
Thursday 6:00-9:00

Among the recent trends in the humanistic disciplines, "Digital Humanities" has without any doubt been at the forefront in the past few years, but the fact remains that, beyond buzz-words such as data, metadata, text-mining or information extraction, few people know what exactly this label encompasses, and even fewer have tried to apply its methods and principles to their work. This course proposes a structured approach to some of the main tools used by digital humanists in real-life textbased projects; students will be introduced to XML and the TEI, to XSLT, to R (through the Stylo package) and to simple Python scripts (through NLTK, the Natural Language Tool Kit). All classes will be divided into two parts: a theoretical introduction and application exercises.

fulfills requirements
Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major
Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major