This modular curriculum that will prepare first-year graduate students with the basic computational literacy necessary for research in the humanities today. Digital technologies have become part of the fabric of our daily research activities, and it is the goal of these workshops to impart a criticality and an awareness of the tools that graduate students will be using every day. In addition, the curriculum is designed to introduce ideas that will scale with students' field-specific research interests as they progress through their PhD programs. By the end of the semester, students will have gained:
- an introduction to the standard tools in digital humanities research (TOOLS)
- a conceptual fluency in methodological exchange across the disciplines (METHODS)
- a basic familiarity with the history of textual interpretation from philology to data mining (HISTORY)
Each tutorial will be guided by the assumption that new res