LING (ENGL) 4885/6885

This course will survey the field of digital humanities, including its history and principles. Applications in digital humanities will be featured, so that students will be able to imagine and create a project themselves. Literary and linguistic topics will be covered including text analysis and corpora, and additional topics will receive treatment in line with the interests of students in the course. Visualizations will be a special focus. All students will be expected to create computer programs related to digital humanities. Each student will pursue a digital humanities topic of personal interest for a term project.