Category Archives: Syllabus

Updated on Saturday, 17 September

This will be our first class on text encoding and textual markup.

Reading:

• “The Machine is Us/ing Us”
• “Web 2.0”

• Textual Markup and the Study of Literature
• (X)HTML and CSS (Read the Introduction, How Web

Readings:

• An Introduction to Coding for Digital Humanists
• Uploading Files to the CSUN Server

Follow the instructions for creating the “hello.html” file and see if you can access it over the internet.

For work in class (hopefully):

• John Milton’s Paradise

Please see the First Text Encoding Assignment.…

A true lab class.…

In this class we will begin by learning about markup validation. Read the definition given here and the explanation here. If you have time, try out the W3C Markup Validator.

We will also begin to learn XML today. …

Discussion:

• A Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities
• A Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0
• “Our Commitment to the Digital Humanities” (Official Google Blog)

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Read the following tutorials from TEI by Example:

• Common Structure and Elements
• The TEI Header
• Prose
• Poetry

You don’t need to learn all of the TEI elements and attributes, but you should feel that you have a good overview of …

In this class, we will continue to examine the questions and challenges raised by attempts to define the Digital Humanities, in particular, by looking at the position of the Humanities in today’s intellectual climate and the impact of the increased …

We will look at cyborg culture and the prospects for creating a new library of Alexandria.

Readings:

Cyborg Culture

• “A Manifesto for Cyborgs” (The text is available on Google Books, pp. 28-37)
• “Johnny Mnemnonic” (There is an alternative online

Computational approaches to textual analysis (distant reading, and all that jazz).

Reading (not due until next week):

• Franco Moretti, Graphs, Maps, and Trees, ch. 1

For Class:

• Text Visualisation Tools
• Visualisation Strategies
• Divitext
• Treeview
• Doctor Faustus
• Frankenstein