Students in this class will meet the following learning goals from the Program in Comparative Humanities:
- Meaningfully compare intellectual materials of different or opposing types: textual with material artifacts; narrative with non-narrative texts; artistic with analytical modes of thought. (6,8)
- Appreciate the benefits, problems, and intellectual challenges of comparative study across historical, cultural, or generic boundaries. (5,6)
- Demonstrate effectively expository skills, both orally and in writing. (7,8)
Students will also meet these course specific goals:
- Learn to identify, use, and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of different DH methodologies and tools
- Develop sound research questions that can be answered with DH methodologies and tools
- Create DH projects using the tools taught in the course; articulate and assess success (or failure) of a humanities research project involving DH methods
- Work individually and collaboratively to create projects that relate to specific interests