2020 Summer DIGHUM 150C 001 SEM 001

2020 Summer Session D 6 weeks, July 6 - August 14

DIGHUM 150C 001 - SEM 001

Digital Humanities and Text and Language Analysis

Jonathan P Reeve

Jul 06, 2020 - Aug 14, 2020
Mo, Tu, We, Th
12:00 pm - 01:59 pm
Internet/Online
Class #:12754
Units: 3

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Hours & Workload

15 hours of outside work hours per week, and 7.5 hours of student-instructor coverage of course materials per week.

Course Catalog Description

This course will concentrate on one of the first and most developed techniques in the digital humanities – textual analysis – and one of the newest – natural language processing. These two methods are used to study the range of language use, spanning from the literary to the informal. While the computational power of these programs is vast, the codes they use arise from the humanistic inquiries of careful readers, and are used to support critical analysis of texts. In these classes, textual and language analysis moves beyond counting and statistics to teach students to understand linguistics, genre, style, aspect, comparative analyses and literary interpretation in new ways.

Class Description

Textual and Language Analysis addresses a range of language use, spanning from the literary to the informal. Computational programs allow for humanistic inquiry and support critical analysis of texts. Students in this area learn to understand linguistics, genre, style, comparative analyses and literary interpretation through the digital. Computational literary analysis is the quantitative study of literature using computational tools. This course serves as an introduction, and presumes no background in computer science. We will learn techniques of text analysis such as stylometry, topic modeling, and word embeddings, using the Python programming language. Novels to be read and analyzed include Wilkie Collins's mystery novel The Moonstone, and two short story collections: James Joyce's Dubliners and Katherine Mansfield's The Garden Party and Other Stories. More info: github.com/JonathanReeve/course-computational-literary-analysis

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