COURSE INFORMATION PACKAGE · LF-D507

Digital Humanities

Compulsory · French
ECTS
7
Local Credit
3
Theory + Practice + Lab
3 + 0 + 0
Course Level
Masters Degree
Prerequisites
-
Semester
1
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Content Weekly Contents Assessment System ECTS
Course Instructor(s)
Marie Helene SAUNER LEROY
saunermarie@gmail.com

Content

Objective

Familiarize students with the most widely used techniques in the field of digital humanities applied to the social sciences

Course Content

Overview of digital humanities applied to the social sciences; in-depth research techniques

Teaching and Learning Methods

Each course will include hands-on sessions. Students should bring their own computers.

References

A bibliography for each course is provided at the beginning of the semester.

Weekly Contents

Theory Topics
Week Weekly Contents
1 General presentation of digital humanities Definitions, tools, history Major projects (big data) Lists to subscribe to Examples Bibliography, sitography
2 Historical development and progress
3 Digital humanities applied to linguistics (TAL) Theoretical approach
4 Digital humanities applied to linguistics (TAL) Applications
5 Digital humanities applied to literature
6 Digital humanities applied to translation
7 Digital humanities applied to the social sciences
8 Digital humanities applied to the social sciences
9 Representation and imagery tools: cartography, stylistics, emotions
10 Internet data (blogs, newspapers, advertising) and analysis
11 Tools - Introduction to Voyant tools
12 Working on a specific corpus
13 Working on a specific corpus
14 Presentation by students of a research project in digital humanities applied to a field of their choice
Practice Topics
Week Weekly Contents
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Assessment System

Contribution to Overall Grade
Activities Number Contribution
Contribution of in-term studies to overall grade 10 50
Contribution of final exam to overall grade 1 50
Total 11 100
In-Term Studies
Activities Number Contribution
Assignments 10 50
Presentation 1 50
Midterm Examinations (including preparation) 0 0
Project 0 0
Laboratory 0 0
Other Applications 0 0
Quiz 0 0
Term Paper/ Project 0 0
Portfolio Study 0 0
Reports 0 0
Learning Diary 0 0
Thesis/ Project 0 0
Seminar 0 0
Other 0 0
Total 11 100

ECTS

Activities Number Period Total Workload
Class Hours 14 3 42
Assignments 10 7 70
Presentation 1 30 30
Project 1 30 30
Total Workload 172
Total Workload / 25 6.88
Credits ECTS 7