Schedule

The weekly schedule of discussion topics, reading assignments, and tech tool lab sessions. Watch and Read are self explanatory, but Explore means you should skim over the entire collection of articles, projects, or whatever is listed, and then pick a few that grab your attention to read or investigate more fully.  Think critically about why you were drawn to those instead of others as you formulate your responses and discussion questions.

 


Week 1: Introduction to Digital Humanities

1

  • Introductions, Syllabus
  • SketchUp and 3D basics

2

Read:

Explore:

Lab: Essential Course Tools Overview, How to Blog


Week 2: How it Works: DH Projects and the Code at their Heart

3

Watch:

Read:

Lab: Under the hood: HTML/CSS 101

4

Read:

Explore:

Lab: Under the hood: JavaScript and Programming 101


Week 3: Big Data, Metadata, and the Database

5

Read:

Explore:

Lab: Metadata and Classification

  • Collecting Data, Where and How
  • Spreadsheets/Google Sheets

6

Read:

Explore:

Lab:The Database “Back-End”

  • Setting up your own server, cPanel 101
  • Content Management Systems
  • Server-side programming 101

Week 4: Spatial Humanities

7

Read:

  • Jo Guldi, What is the Spatial Turn? (read the introduction and at least one disciplinary section of interest)
  • Anne Kelly Knowles, “GIS and History,” in Anne Kelley Knowles, ed., Placing History: How Maps, Spatial Data, and GIS are Changing Historical Scholarship (2008): 1–20.

Explore:

Lab: GIS / Mapping Basics

  • Google Fusion Tables
  • ArcGIS Online

8

Read:

 

Lab: WebMapping 101


Week 5: 3D Modeling and Simulation

9

Read:

Explore:

Lab: PhotoModeling Historic Buildings

  • Advanced SketchUp

10

Read: 

Watch:

Lab: 3D Visualization and Procedural Modeling 

  • Google Earth
  • CityEngine

Week 6: Getting More out of Texts

11

Read:

Explore:

12

Lab: Structured Markup and Text Analysis

 


Week 7: Seeing Data in New Ways

MONDAY — Feb 12

Read:

Explore:

WEDNESDAY — Feb 14

MIDTERM EXAM: Begins in class and due after 24 hours, on Thursday, Feb 15 at 1:50pm

FRIDAY — Feb 16

Lab: The Visual Display of Quantitative (and Qualitative!) Information


Week 8: Networks of Text and Space

15

Read:

Explore:

Lab: Network Analysis 101

16

Group Work and Project Check in


Week 9: Group Work to Finalize Projects and Presentations

17

Prepare:

  • Your final project materials
  • Your complete Zotero bibliography of sources

18

Packaging and Prettifying a Project

Finalize projects and comment on the “Project Gallery”

TUTORIAL ASSIGNMENT DUE


Week 10: Project Presentations

19

NO BLOG POST THIS WEEK

Prepare:

  • A “Pecha Kucha” style presentation of your final project:
    • 20 slides, for 20 seconds each (6:40 total), following the 1/1/5 rule: at least 1 image per slide, each used only 1 time, and less than 5 words per slide

20

Presentations and Publication!

  • Now put those skills to use and join a project on the DH Commons!

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