HSOC-316: Experimental Humanities 101

The "Experimental Humanities," (sometimes called the Digital Humanities), refers to new ways that Humanities scholars do their research by incorporating digital and design approaches. Since the advent of digital computing, experimentation-minded literary scholars, historians, and social scientists now work with big data, visualizations, critical making, and more to find meaning in cultural materials. This course will provide an introduction to the experimental humanities by giving students hands-on experience with interpretative methods such as distant reading, multi-modal scholarship, and text analysis. The online course is taught in the networked medium of the experimental humanities itself: the internet.?