syllabus.Rmd

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output: 
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title: "Community of Practice: Digital Humanities"
author: Jason A. Heppler
date: "Spring 2019"

email: "jheppler@unomaha.edu"
web: "jasonheppler.org"
officehours: "TH 9:00 - 11:00"
office: "CL 215"
classroom: "Faculty Lounge"
classhours: "F 11:00-12:00 p.m."

fontfamily: mathpazo
fontsize: 11pt
header-includes:
   - \linespread{1.05}
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```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(cache=FALSE, dev='pdf')
#mon <- as.Date("2016-08-15")
fri <- as.Date("2018-01-18")
advdate <- function(obj, adv) {
 tmon <- obj + 7*(adv-1)
 tfri <- obj + 4 + 7*(adv-1)
 tmon <- format(tmon, format="%m/%d")
 tfri <- format(tfri, format="%m/%d")
 zadv <- sprintf("%02d", adv)
 tmp <- paste("Week ",zadv,sep='',", ", tmon," - ",tfri)
 return(tmp)
}
```

# Schedule

## Friday, January 18: Introduction to Digital Humanities

Readings

- William G. Thomas III, "[Computing and the Historical Imagination](http://digitalhumanities.org/companion/view?docId=blackwell/9781405103213/9781405103213.xml&chunk.id=ss1-2-5)," in *A Companion to Digital Humanities*, ed. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth (Blackwell, 2004).

Additional Readings

- Stephen Robertson, "The Differences Between Digital History and Digital Humanities"
- Miriam Posner, "How Did They Make That?," August 29, 2013.

## Friday, February 15: Maps

Readings

- Richard White, "What is Spatial History?'
- Cameron Blevins, "Space, Nation, and the Triumph of Region: A View of the World from Houston," *Journal of American History* (June 2014)

Additional Readings

## Friday, March 29: Networks

Readings

- Scott Weingart, "Demystifying Networks," scottbot irregular, December 14, 2011.
- Shin-Kap Han, "The Other Ride of Paul Revere"
- Caroline Winterer, "Where is America in the Republic of Letters" *Modern Intellectual History* 9 (2012): 597–623.

Additional Readings
 
## Friday, April 19: Text Analysis

Readings

- Ted Underwood, "Seven ways humanists are using computers to understand text"
- Cameron Blevins, "Topic Modeling Martha Ballard's Diary"
- Dan Cohen, "Searching for the Victorians," October 4, 2010

Additional Readings