coursemapLoading course
School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics · ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
This course offers a practical and dynamic introduction to the digital methods and projects transforming research and practice in the humanities. Students will investigate both canonical and cutting-edge projects in digital humanities, inspiring them with the possibilities for inquiry and exploration that digital technologies enable. They will work with digital cultural heritage collections and social media data, employing approaches including data modelling, computational text analysis, data visualisation, network analysis, machine learning, geospatial analysis, and digital storytelling. The course's immersive approach provides both conceptual grounding and practical experience in a range of digital tools and techniques, supporting students in developing a thoughtful, ethical, critical, and interdisciplinary approach to digital humanities research and practice.
Critical evaluation of a digital project (1000 words)
Learning outcomes 2
Critical project with a digital method or tool (1000 words)
Learning outcomes 1
Essay or digital project and exegesis (3000 words equivalent)
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4
Class participation
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3
130 hours of total student learning time made up from: a) 36 hours of contact over 12 weeks of weekly seminars b) 94 hours of independent student research, reading and writing. Work Integrated Learning Projects Students undertake projects relevant to real-world professional contexts including developing digital archives, creating data visualisations, and performing computational text analyses. Students are expected to critically evaluate not only their computational tools, but also the data they work with, and to create a new digital resource that has been thoughtfully developed with a critical understanding of how both society and technology affect it. Students engage with digital cultural heritage materials, gaining direct experience of industry-relevant challenges and practices for working with cultural institutions, libraries, or archives. Other Information No specific prior knowledge or technical skills are required, this course welcomes students from a range of diverse disciplinary backgrounds.
NA Preliminary Reading Drucker, Johanna. (2021) The Digital Humanities Coursebook. Routledge, 2021. Crymble, Adam (2012-). The Programming Historian. http://programminghistorian.org