Course: Digital Humanities

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Course title Digital Humanities
Course code UMJL/E7DIH
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction English
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Trušník Roman, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
Establishing digital humanities Data: sources and corpora, open data, data mining Methods: analytical approaches, qualitative and quantitative methods, visualization Interdisciplinarity Ethics and digital humanities Criticism of digital humanities Stylometry Sentiment analysis Corpus linguistics Literary macroanalysis Linguistic analysis of social media Case studies

Learning activities and teaching methods
  • Participation in classes - 28 hours per semester
  • Term paper - 42 hours per semester
  • Home preparation for classes - 40 hours per semester
  • Preparation for course credit - 20 hours per semester
  • Preparation for examination - 20 hours per semester
learning outcomes
Knowledge
describe the history of digital humanities and current trends
describe the history of digital humanities and current trends
explain basic analytical approaches
explain basic analytical approaches
define the ethical and methodological limits of digital humanities
define the ethical and methodological limits of digital humanities
describe the principles of basic research approaches
describe the principles of basic research approaches
Skills
be able to identify the appropriateness or inappropriateness of using digital humanities to solve a specific research problem
be able to identify the appropriateness or inappropriateness of using digital humanities to solve a specific research problem
propose a suitable method for specific research
propose a suitable method for specific research
identify methodological or ethical errors in previous research
identify methodological or ethical errors in previous research
identify possibilities of use and misuse of specific research
identify possibilities of use and misuse of specific research
teaching methods
Knowledge
Monologic (Exposition, lecture, briefing)
Monologic (Exposition, lecture, briefing)
Skills
Text analysis
Text analysis
Exercises on PC
Exercises on PC
assessment methods
Knowledge
Grade (Using a grade system)
Grade (Using a grade system)
Analysis of another type of paper written by the student (Casuistry, diary, plan ...)
Analysis of another type of paper written by the student (Casuistry, diary, plan ...)
Recommended literature
  • Adolphs, Svenja - Dawn, Knight (eds.). The Routledge Handbook of English Language and Digital Humanities. London, 2020.
  • Dobson, James E. Critical Digital Humanities. Urbana, 2016.
  • Fiormonte, Domenico - Chaudhuri, Sukanta - Ricaurte, Paola. Global Debates in the Digital Humanities. Minneapolis, 2022.
  • Jockers, Matthew L. Macroanalysis: Digital Methods and Literary History. Urbana, 2013.
  • Ramsay, Stephen. Reading Machines: Toward an Algorithmic Criticism. Urbana, 2011.
  • Schwan, Anne - Thomson, Tara (eds.). The Palgrave Handbook of Digital and Public Humanities. Cham, 2022.


Study plans that include the course
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