Digital Humanities: Distant Reading

Uitgebreide vaknaam	Digital Humanities: Distant Reading
Leerdoelen	After completing this course the student is able to: - Understand and use distant reading methods on text corpora - Analyze digital texts with computational stylistic and text analysis methods - Present results in visualizations and tables, and discuss what these results mean for their research question and existing literature.
Omschrijving	This course builds on the Digital Skills course by exploring computational stylistics and text analysis in several mini-projects. Students gain experience with formulating research questions, testing hypotheses, and reporting results using techniques under the umbrella of distant reading. The course covers authorship attribution, sentiment analysis, and topic models. These methods are applied to various datasets ranging from literary texts to social media posts.
Uren per week
Onderwijsvorm	practicum, werkcollege
Toetsvorm	portfolio, wekelijkse opdrachten
Vaksoort	bachelor
Coördinator	dr. A.W. van Cranenburgh, PhD.
Docent(en)	dr. A.W. van Cranenburgh, PhD.
Entreevoorwaarden
Opmerkingen
Opgenomen in	Opleiding Jaar Periode Type Ba Communicatie- en Informatiewetenschappen  (Pre-master Computercommunicatie) - semester I b verplicht Facultaire Minor Digital Humanities 3 semester I b verplicht