Introduction to Digital Humanities

Welcome and Introduction

Meng Liu

Welcome to Introduction to Digital Humanities! 👋

• About Me 👩🏻‍🏫
• About the Course 🎯
• About You 👋

Who am I? 🙋🏻‍♀️

Education 🎓

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Teaching 👩🏻‍🏫

About the Course 🎯

Course Overview

• 🎒 Course design:
  • With a more pratical focus on DH methods using R
  • Lectures followed by practical sessions with R
  • Bring your laptop 💻
• 🏠 Course platform:
  • 💬 Wechat: notifications + live chats
  • 🛜 Course website: course materials/code scripts

Why Focus on DH Methods?

• 🌉 Common ground: Methods bridge diverse humanities disciplines
• 🔧 Transferable skills: Applicable across various research areas
• 🚀 Future-proofing: Open the door to coding/programming to prepare for the AI age
• 🧠 Critical thinking: Enhance analytical skills for all humanities
• 💡 Computational thinking: Develop a sense of data and computational thinking

Additional Resources

For those interested in deeper philosophical discussions and critiques:

• 📚 “On the Digital Humanities: Essays and Provocations” by Stephen Ramsay
• 🤔 “Critical Digital Humanities: The Search for a Methodology” by James E. Dobson
• 🖋️ “Defining Digital Humanities: A Reader” by Melissa Terras et al.

Additional Resources

Course Overview

• 🎯 Learning outcomes:
  • Understand key DH concepts and methodologies
  • Develop basic programming skills in R
  • Apply digital methods to humanities research questions
  • Critically evaluate DH projects and their implications

Getting Ready

• 🏠 Tour the website
• 💬 Create wechat group
• 🤳 Join 微助教班级

About You

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