Unit 1: Introductions
Thursday, Aug. 20 | Welcome – Syllabus, Goals, etc.
Homework: Due Tuesday, August 25
- Complete Pre-Course Survey (if you haven’t already)
- Sign up for Reclaim Hosting – https://reclaimhosting.com/getting-started/
- Select that you would like hosting “myself: just my site(s)”
- Select that your website size is “Under 2 GB”
- Sign into Slack channel with your ua.edu email address – https://join.slack.com/t/rel315workspace/signup
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- Say “hi” in the general channel
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Tuesday, Aug. 25 | What is DH?
- Digital_Humanities, Ch. 1
- McPherson, Tara, “Why Are the Digital Humanities So White?
Thursday, Aug. 27 | Lab 1 – WordPress
Homework: Due Tuesday Sept. 1 by 11am
- Complete Lab 1
- Readings for Tuesday
Unit 2: Digital Presences
Question: What difference does the interface make?
Tuesday, Sept. 1 | Argument, Narrative, Platform
- Digital_Humanities, Ch. 2
- Look at one (at least) of the following DH projects
Thursday, Sept. 3 | Lab 2 – Leveraging the web
- McLuhan, Understanding Media [Selections in UA Box]
- Mozilla Foundation, “HTML Basics”
Homework: Due Tuesday, September 8 @ 11am
- Complete Lab 2
- Readings for Tuesday
Tuesday, Sept 8 | Accessibility, Ability, and the Web
- Microsoft Inclusive Design, (download the Inclusive 101 toolkit)
- Aimi Hamraie, “Universal Design and the Problem of “Post-Disability” Ideology [in UA Box]
Thursday, Sept. 10 | Lab 3 – Accessibility
- George H. Williams, “Disability, Universal Design, and the Digital Humanities”
Guest Presentation: Melissa Green, CIT/OIT
Homework: Due Tuesday, September 15 @ 11am
- Complete Lab 3
- Prepare your Review presentations
- Readings for Tuesday
Tuesday, Sept. 15 | Lab 4 – Data, Tidy Data
- Hadley Wickham, “Tidy Data”
Thursday, Sept. 17 | Review of DH Projects
In class presentations
Homework: Due Tuesday, September 22 @ 11am
- Complete Lab 4
- Readings for Tuesday
Unit 3: Data
Question: What counts as data for the study of religion? What can and cannot be captured as data?
Tuesday, Sept. 22 | What are Data?
- Jenn Riley, “Understanding Metadata: What is Metadata, and What is it For?: A Primer”, pp. 1-7
- Lincoln Mullen, “Where the Problem with Historical Data about U.S. Religion Really Lies”
- Russell McCutcheon, Studying religion: an introduction, Chapter 1
Thursday, Sept. 24 | Lab 5 – Finding Data
Kevin Walker: Data for the Study of Religion
Homework: Due Tuesday, September 29 @ 11am
- Complete Lab 5
- Readings for Tuesday
Tuesday, Sept. 29 | Data Ethics
- Jessica Marie Johnson, “Markup Bodies: Black (Life) Studies and Slavery (Death) Studies at the Digital Crossroads” [in UA Box]
- Duarte, Marisa Elena, and Miranda Belarde-Lewis. “Imagining: Creating Spaces for Indigenous Ontologies.”
Thursday, Oct. 1 | Lab 6 – Assessing data
- Data Feminism, Chapter 6
- Read the summary for the Longitudinal Religious Congregations and Membership File, 1980-2010 (State Level). http://www.thearda.com/Archive/Files/Descriptions/RCMSMGST.asp
Homework: Due Tuesday, October 6 @ 11am
- Complete Lab 6
- Readings for Tuesday
Tuesday, Oct. 6 | Creating Data
- Anne Farris Rosen, A Brief History of Religion and the U.S. Census
- boyd, danah, and Kate Crawford. “Critical Questions for Big Data.”
Thursday, Oct. 8 | Lab 7 – Let’s make some data
Christof Schöch,Big? Smart? Clean? Messy? Data in the Humanities- Bacon, Finke, and Jones, “Merging the Religious Congregations and Membership Studies.” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6182411/
Not required reading, but Prepare Your Data for Tableau, chapters 4-5 is a resource for you for this session and the homework.
Homework: Due Tuesday, October 13 @ 11am
- Complete Lab 7
- Readings for Tuesday
Tuesday, Oct. 13 | Representing Data
- Frederick Gibbs, “New Forms of History: Critiquing Data and Its Representations”
Lauren F. Klein, “The Image of Absence: Archival Silence, Data Visualization, and James Hemings”
Thursday, Oct. 15 | Lab 8 – Cleaning data (Tableau Prep)
- Katie Rawson, Trevor Muñoz, “Against Cleaning”
Trina Chiasson, Dyanna Gregory, et.al., Data + Design, “Preparing Data” section, pp. 100-148 [in UA Box]
Not required reading, but Prepare Your Data for Tableau, chapters 6 – 10 is a resource for you for this session and the homework.
Homework: Due Tuesday, October 20 @ 11am
- Complete Lab 8
- Readings for Tuesday
Tuesday, Oct. 20 | Sharing Data
- Data Feminism, Chapter 7
- Greg Wilson, et. al., “Best Practices for Scientific Computing”
Thursday, Oct. 22 | Lab 9 – Graphs
Trina Chiasson, Dyanna Gregory, et.al., Data + Design, “Visualizing Data” section, pp. 149-214 [in UA Box]- Tracy Rodgers, “Which Type of Chart or Graph is Right for You?” (log in to see the full white paper.)
Homework: Due Tuesday, October 27 @ 11am
- Complete Lab 9
- Readings for Tuesday
Unit 4: Analysis
Question: How do different modes of analysis transform data? What do those transformations reveal and conceal?
Tuesday, Oct. 27 | Types of computational analysis
- Richard Jean So, “All Models Are Wrong”
Pacheco, Denise and Velez, Veronica Nelly, “Maps, Mapmaking, and Critical Pedagogy: Exploring GIS and Maps as a Teaching Tool for Social Change”
Thursday, Oct. 29 | Lab 10 – Graphing Part II Questions of Where
- Matthew Ericson, “When Maps Shouldn’t be Maps”
Homework: Due Tuesday, November 3 @ 11am
- Complete Lab 10
Tuesday, Nov. 3 | Election day! Vote!
If you are missing DH terribly, listen to N. Katherine Hayles’ interview with Alan Liu (you’ll have to select Liu from the list to get his interview.)
Thursday, Nov. 5 | Lab 11 – Questions of Where Questions of Words
Homework: Due Tuesday, November 10 @ 11am
- Complete Lab 11
- Readings for Tuesday
Friday, Nov. 6 | Reflection 2 Due by Midnight
Tuesday, Nov. 10 | Logics of computational analysis
Read these in the order listed as the represent a conversation over time. Don’t worry about the particulars, but see if you can follow where claims and disagreements are.
- Matthew Jockers, “Revealing Sentiment and and Plot Arcs with the Syuzhet Package”
- Joanna Swafford, “Messy Data and Faulty Tools”
- Benjamin Schmidt, “Do Digital Humanists Need to Understand Algorithms?”
Thursday, Nov. 12 | Lab 12 – Questions of Words Questions of Connections
- Ted Underwood, “Where to start with text mining?”
Scott Weingart, “Demystifying Networks”
Homework: Due Tuesday, November 17 @ 11am
- Complete Lab 12
- Readings for Tuesday
Unit 5: Synthesis
Tuesday, Nov. 17 | Why algorithms matter
- Noble, Safiya Umoja. “Google Search: Hyper-Visibility as a Means of Rendering Black Women and Girls Invisible.”
Thursday, Nov. 19 | What sort of DH for the study of Religion?
- Dinsman, Melissa. “The Digital in the Humanities: An Interview with Marisa Parham.”
Week 15 (Nov. 23-27) : Thanksgiving – No Classes
Tuesday, November 24 | Reflection 3 Due at Midnight