Class 1 (Sept. 30) — 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. 2) — 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]
• 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 | Folder of exercises on Student Work page

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. 7) — 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 Resources for Student Project-Building 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. 9) — Mapping Literature

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

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

Class 5 (Oct. 14) — 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. 16) — Text-Analyzing Literature

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

Class 7 (Oct. 21) — 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)
• 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. 23) — 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)

Class 9 (Oct. 28) — Project Idea Presentations

•  Choose a literary work (or part of a work) that your team will "interpret."  Each team will present to the class its rationale for choosing the work and at least two initial project ideas. (See Assignments)

Class 10 (Oct. 30) — Project Idea Presentations

• (continued from last class)

Class 11 (Nov. 4) — Workshop

Class 12 (Nov. 6) — Workshop

Annotated bibliography due. (See Assignments)

Class 13 (Nov. 18) — Workshop

Class 14 (Nov. 20) — Workshop

4-page research report on one of the items in your annotated bibliography due. (See Assignments)

Class 15 (Nov. 25) — Workshop

Class 16 (Nov. 27) — Workshop

Class 17 (Dec. 2) — Final Presentations

Class 18 (Dec. 4) — Final Presentations