Class 1 (W, Jan. 17) — Introduction

• Introduction to the course and to "digital humanities" and "new media studies"
• Course enrollment business

Class 2 (M, Jan. 22) — "Close" & "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
• "Close reading"
• Encyclopedia Britannica synopsis of "New Criticism"
• Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren, "Letter to the Teacher", from their Understanding Poetry (1st ed. 1938) 
• Cleanth Brooks, "The Heresy of Paraphrase," from his Well Wrought Urn (1947) 
• "Distant Reading"
• Franco Moretti, Graphs, Maps, Trees (2005), pp. 1-33 
• Jean-Baptiste Michel, Erez Lieberman Aiden, et al., "Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books" (2011)    [paywalled; UCSB students have free access through the campus network or from off-campus through the UCSB VPN or Library Proxy server] 
  
•  Practicum: Google Books 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 (W, Jan. 24) — Text in the Digital Age

• William Warner, Kimberly Knight, and UCSB Transliteracies History of Reading Group, "In the Beginning was the Word: A Visualization of the Page as Interface" (View the original Flash animation for the best interactive access, or view the MP4 video version (or download the AVI or WMV video versions). On the original Flash page, click "Enter" and wait as the animation starts)
• Yin Liu, "Ways of Reading, Models for Text, and the Usefulness of Dead People" [PDF or HTML] (2013)
• Alan Liu, "Transcendental Data: Toward a Cultural History and Aesthetics of the New Encoded Discourse" (2004) (read only pp. 49-57)
• Kate Singer, "Digital Close Reading: TEI for Teaching Poetic Vocabularies" (2013) 
•  Practicum: Text Encoding  Instructions for this practicum | Folder of exercises on Student Work page

Special Assignment due in Class 3: Create your system for working with online readings. Because so many of the readings in this course are online, students are required to demonstrate in class during Class 3 that they have developed a workflow for annotating and saving copies of online materials according to one of the methods described in Guide to Downloading and Managing Online Readings. 

Class 4 (M, Jan. 29) — Computational Text Analysis

• Rockwell, Geoffrey, “What is Text Analysis, Really? (pre-print version) (2003) 
• 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" (2012) 
• Tutorial on Using the Antconc text-analysis ("concordancer") program used for the practicum for this class:  The Grammar Lab, "Antconc Walk-Through"
• Download onto your computer the Antconc text-analysis program
• For help on creating "plain-text" files and additional help with Antconc, see Heather Froehlich, "Getting Started with AntConc" 
•  Practicum: Text Analysis  Instructions for this practicum | Folder of exercises on Student Work page

 Teams to be formed in a special class meeting to be scheduled outside regular class hours during either the second or third week of the course. (See Assignments: Team Preparatory Tasks)

• Stephen P. Borgatti,, et al. (2009), "Network Analysis in the Social Sciences"  [paywalled; UCSB students have free access through the campus network or from off-campus through the UCSB VPN or Library Proxy server] 
• Franco Moretti, "Network Theory, Plot Analysis," (Stanford Literary Lab Pamphlet #2, 2011) 
• Ian Gregory & David Cooper, "Geographical Technologies and the Interdisciplinary Study of Peoples and Cultures of the Past" (2013)  [paywalled; UCSB students have free access through campus network or off-campus through UCSB Library Proxy server]
• Franco Moretti, Graphs, Maps, Trees (2005), pp. 35-64 
•  Practicum: Social Network Analysis or Mapping  Instructions for this practicum | Folder of exercises on Student Work page

Class 7 (W, Feb. 7) — Electronic Literature (E-Lit)

• Readings
• N. Katherine Hayles, Chapter 1 from Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary (2008) 
• Stuart Moulthrop, "Intimate Mechanics: One Model of Electronic Literature" (2017)
• E-Lit 
• Nick Montfort and Stephanie Strickland, Sea and Spar Between (Glossed code here) (2010) 
• Judy Malloy, Uncle Roger (Original UNIX and BASIC versions, 1986-1988; original Web version, 1995)
•  Practicum: [no practicum this week] 

Class 8 (M, Feb. 12) — Electronic Literature (continued)

• Readings
• Manuel Portela, Chapter 4 from Scripting Reading Motions: The Codex and the Computer as Self-Reflexive Machines (2013) [requires course password]
• N. Katherine Hayles, Chapter 2 from Writing Machines (2002)  
• E-Lit
• Raymond Queneau, Cent Mille Millards de Poemes (online version) 
• William Poundstone, Project for Tachistoscope {Bottomless Pit} (2005) 
• Matt Schneider, @rm_everyfile (see also his short paper "Bot Rot") (2016) 
•  Practicum: E-lit  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 (W, Feb. 14) — 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 instructors will consult with the project teams in preparation for the upcoming project idea presentations.  (See Assignments: Team Preparatory Tasks)

 Digital Analysis (Distant Reading) Assignment due. (See Assignments: Solo Assignments)  

Class 10 (W, Feb. 21) — Presentations of Project Ideas

Class 11 (M, Feb. 26) — Workshop (during workshop classes, teams collaborate together on their projects)

Class 12 (W, Feb. 28) — Workshop

Class 13 (M, Mar. 5) — Workshop