1. Course Concept

Digital humanities as "register" of changing methods of humanities, arts, and social science knowledge.

Digital humanities as professional field

2. Course Structure

• Topics (see Schedule)
• Structure of readings/tasks for each class:
• Focal Readings
• Other Readings
• Practicums
• Modus operandi of class discussions
• Discussion of practicums
• Discussion of higher issues
• Course assignments (see Assignments)
• Practicums
• Follow DH community on Twitter
• Blog posts on your field in its relation to DH
• Mock Project Prospectus (in form of a hypothetical grant proposal)
• [Auditors]
• DH Toychest
• Student Work site
• DH Events & CFPs

3. Class Member Introductions

4. Discussion

Class 1 (Jan. 10) — Digital Humanities, the Humanities, and the "Human"

          [Students are asked to do the readings for this class in advance of the course's first meeting]

• Focal Readings ("focal readings" are chosen to prompt discussion in class)
• Plato, from Phaedrus (the myth of Theuth and the invention of writing) [PDF]
• Hippolyte Taine, "Introduction" to History of English Literature (1863) [online in sequential sections: I | II | III | IV | V | VI | VII | VIII]
• Marshall McLuhan, excerpts from Understanding Media (1964) (read excerpts from "Introduction" and "The Medium is the Message")
• N. Katherine Hayles, How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis (2012), read pp. 27-31 on "Scale Matters" [PDF] (Google Books version)
• Alan Liu, "N + 1: A Plea for Cross-Domain Data in the Digital Humanities" (2016)

• Other Readings ("other readings" support or expand on themes of a particular class; students are free to browse, skip, or read at will)
• Drew S. Burk, "Living Network Ecologies: A Triptych on the Universe of Fernand Deligny -- Part 1" (2013)
• See also on Deligny's "wander lines": Cartes et lignes d'erre 

• "Digital"
• English Dept. graduate MA exam reading list in Literature and Theory of Technology
• Technology
• Media
• Information

• "Human" ("Humanities")

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