Class 1 (Oct. 6) — Introduction

• Introduction to the course and to "digital humanities"
• Video of instructor's welcome and introduction to the course: .avi | .mov | .wmv (to be played in class by an assisting English Dept. staff member if the instructor is still on jury duty on this date)
• Course enrollment business
• Attendance will be taken of registered students and of students on the course wait list.  A sign-up sheet will be passed out for other students wishing to take the course.  Students must come to first three class meetings to hold their place in the course.)

Class 2 (Oct. 8) — From "Close Reading" to "Distant Reading"

      For each class, please read the assigned texts & other works prior to class:

• In-class introduction to working on the Student Work site for this course and on student class bios.
• Remembering the "New Criticism" in 20th-Century Literary Studies:
• Encyclopedia Britannica synopsis of "New Criticism" | Michael Delahoyde, brief synopsis of New Criticism
• John Crowe Ransom, "Criticism, Inc." (1937) (read only sections IV and V)
• Cleanth Brooks, "The Heresy of Paraphrase [PDF]," from his Well Wrought Urn (1947)
• Example Poems and Critical Readings:
• Sir Thomas Wyatt, "They Flee From Me" (1557) [commentary by Ian Lancashire (scroll down from poem to his commentary)]
• John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (1819) [commentary by Cleanth Brooks]
• Archibald MacLeish, "Ars Poetica" (1926) [commentary by various critics]
• Introducing "Distant Reading" in 21st-Century Literary Studies:
• Franco Moretti, Graphs, Maps, Trees (2005), pp. 1-4
• Jean-Baptiste Michel, Erez Lieberman Aiden, et al., "Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books" (2011) (paywalled; UCSB students have free access from UCSB campus or Library Proxy server)
  
• Practicum: Google Ngram Viewer Instructions for this practicum

Course "practicums" are hands-on, small-scale exercises that ask students to experiment at a beginner's level with the tools of the digital humanities.  Each practicum should be completed before class, resulting in a "souvenir" of the exercise left on the Student Work site. (General instructions for practicums)

Class 3 (Oct. 13) — Graphing Literature

• Franco Moretti, Graphs, Maps, Trees (2005), pp. 3-33
• In-class introduction to textual-analysis, visualization, and other tools listed in the instructor's DH Toychest site.
• Practicum: Explore Digital Humanities Tools Instructions for this practicum (See also General instructions for practicums) | Folder of exercises on Student Work page

Class 4 (Oct. 15) — Mapping Literature

• Franco Moretti, Graphs, Maps, Trees (2005), pp. 35-64, 91-92
• Richard White, "What is Spatial History?" (2010)
• Practicum: Make a "Story Map" Instructions for assignment | Folder of exercises on Student Work page

 Create a bio for the course wiki, including your intellectual interests. (See Assignments: Solo Assignments: Student Bio)

Class 5 (Oct. 20) — Encoding Literature

• Alan Liu, "Transcendental Data: Toward a Cultural History and Aesthetics of the New Encoded Discourse" (2004) (read only pp. 49-63)
• Wikipedia article on "Markup Language"
• William Warner, Kimberly Knight, and UCSB Transliteracies History of Reading Group, "In the Beginning was the Word: A Visualization of the Page as Interface" (Flash animation)
• Practicum: Text Encoding Instructions for this practicum | Folder of exercises on Student Work page

Class 6 (Oct. 22) — Text-Analyzing Literature

• Flora Lichtman interviewing Patrick Juola, "Uncovering the Mystery of J.K. Rowling's Latest Novel" (2013)
• Geoffrey Rockwell, "What is Text Analysis?"
• Ted Underwood, "Where to Start with Text Mining?" (2012)
• Ryan Heuser and and Long Le-Khac, "A Quantitative Literary History of 2,958 Nineteenth-Century British Novels: The Semantic Cohort Method" [PDF] (2012)
• Ted Underwood, "Topic Modeling Made Just Simple Enough" (2012)
• Practicum: Text Analysis Instructions for this practicum | Folder of exercises on Student Work page

Class 7 (Oct. 27) — Playing Literature

• Gaming
• Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman, "Game Design and Meaningful Play" [PDF] from Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals (2004)
• Play an example of "interactive fiction": Andrew Plotkin, The Dreamhold (2004) (click on "Play On-line" at upper right of page).  If you want to be able to save your location in the game, you'll need to download and install a "Z-code" or "Z-machine" interpreter program for interactive fiction and also the dreamhold.z8 file containing story (see the links at the upper right of The Dreamhold page).
• Simulating
• NetLogo (downloadable agent-based simulation-building program) [minimum assignment: browse the NetLogo site and learn about the concept] [maximum assignment: download and run the NetLogo program, which comes with many starter simulations]
• Practicum: Playing Literature Instructions for this practicum | Folder of exercises on Student Work page

Class 8 (Oct. 29) — Changing Literature

• Lisa Samuels and Jerome J. McGann, "Deformance and Interpretation," New Literary History 30, No. 1 (Winter, 1999): 25-56 (paywalled; UCSB students have free access from UCSB campus or Library Proxy server)
• Mark Sample, "Notes Towards a Deformed Humanities" (2012)
• Practicum: Changing Literature Instructions for this practicum | Folder of exercises on Student Work page

At least one team-meeting outside class by this date to begin brainstorming.  (See Assignments: Team Preparatory Tasks)

Class 9 (Nov. 3) — Project Planning Workshop

• Workshops are in-class team collaboration sessions when students work on their projects while the instructor circulates among the teams to consult.
• In this first workshop, the instructor will consult with the project teams in preparation for the upcoming project idea presentations.  (See Assignments: Team Preparatory Tasks)

Class 10 (Nov. 10) — Presentations of Project Ideas

Class 11 (Nov. 12 ) — Presentations of Project Ideas

Class 12 (Nov. 17) — Workshop (teams work together on projects in class)

Class 16 (Dec. 1) — Workshop

Class 17 (Dec. 3) — Workshop

Class 18 (Dec. 8) — Final Presentations

Class 19 (Dec. 10) — Final Presentations [last class]