Computational Methods in the Humanities

Projects

Project Guidelines

Early in the semester groups of students will identify, though consultation with the instructors, a public domain text (that is, without copyright restrictions) in the humanities that interests them and a set of related research questions, and will work with that text throughout the semester, performing document analysis, developing and implementing a formal structural model, encoding (marking up) the text according to that model, developing programs to perform research with that text, and constructing a web site to publish their research. Each project team will meet weekly for approximately one hour with a project mentor (one of the instructors) outside class for project planning and discussion.