Introduction to Digital Humanities

The increasing digitization and online availability of primary sources opens new pathways for utilizing these resources to formulate innovative and compelling research questions. How did Chinese families organize themselves and their landscapes in China’s past? How did African slaves from different cultures form communities in the Americas? What influences informed the creation and evolution of Broadway musicals? How can I understand or interpret 1,000 books all at once? How can I create a visualization that viewers can interact with? This course will show you how these questions can be explored using a wide variety of digital tools, methods, and sources.

Introduction to Digital Humanities
Introduction to Digital Humanities

Who's Afraid of Numbers

Who's Afraid of Numbers is one of the first courses to tackle the barriers to entry into the digital world, to lift the veil of mystery surrounding concepts such as functions, algorithms and correlations and to provide the readers with an opportunity to engage with data in a way that is challenging yet meaningful and empowering. Step by step the students are taken on a journey where mathematical tools and computational skills are interleaved in order to explore humanistic questions from diverse fields such as art, history and literature. The course rests on three essential and inter-dependent pillars: mathematics, computation and humanistic interpretation.

Who's Afraid of Numbers
Who's Afraid of Numbers

Words to Count: First Steps in Computational Literary Studies

Words to Count: First Steps in Computational Literary Studies connects between the computing and humanities, fields of study that are usually seen as opposing or contradicting one another. The course reflects on both the theoretical and the ethical questions raised by this connection, dealing also with the practical tools enabling computational literary studies. We ask the theoretical questions of “why?”, as well as the practical questions of “how?”, and “how many?”, to create a computational-humanistic reflection on different texts, and on our own premises in the humanities. The course also includes a discussion of some of the foundational articles in the field, being published for the first time in Hebrew translation as part of the course materials.

Words to Count: First Steps in Computational Literary Studies
Words to Count: First Steps in Computational Literary Studies

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