HUMA5630 Digital Humanities – Text Mining for Humanities
Unlock the power of technology to explore human culture and history! HUMA 5630 is a practical and innovative course designed for students in the humanities and beyond who want to leverage cutting-edge computational methods for their research. This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of Digital Humanities, with a specific focus on text mining techniques. You will learn how to use Python, one of the most powerful tools in the age of AI, to analyze historical documents, literature, and other cultural texts at scale. From turning scanned manuscripts into searchable data with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to identifying key themes, entities, and patterns using Natural Language Processing (NLP), you will gain hands-on experience transforming traditional humanities research. No prior programming experience is required.
HUMA5632 Digital Humanities Seminar
The course introduces methods and tools of the Digital Humanities as they can used in literary, historical, art historical, and cultural studies. Students will learn how to acquire humanities data, apply data analysis, text mining, and visualization tools to explore a variety of research questions pertinent to use, sharing and presentation of humanities data.
HUMA1673 Art and Digital Culture
This course explores the key concepts, histories and practices of digital culture, offering students a comprehensive introduction to the ways digital technologies shape society, media, and artistic expression. Through lectures and tutorials, students will examine the origins and evolution of the internet, digital media and online communities, as well as the development of digital arts, publishing, photography, cinema, music and video games. The course combines theoretical reading with case studies, including the study of internet memes, digital relationships and the collective memories of popular music in Asia. By the end of the course, students will have a deeper understanding of how digital culture operates, its impact on society and its ongoing transformations across multiple media forms.
Student Course Projects
Below are the digital humanities projects created by students in the course HUMA5630.
A Study on Marco Polo’s View of China
WEI Le, WONG Ching Man
Let Wang Shuhui’s The Romance of the West Chamber come alive
DU Yiwen, GU Jingran, LI Lujun
A study on “The Classic of Mountains and Seas”
HAN Xuan, SHEN Xiaohan, WU Yutong, YUAN Yuchen
Highlighted DH Projects
We’re proud to present our featured projects where students take center stage, contributing their talents to the exciting blend of teaching and learning. Take a look at a few of them below!
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Tutorials & Resources
We have a series of tutorials waiting to unlock your skills in digital humanities. We understand the growing importance of leveraging technology in the field of humanities, and our tutorials and resources list are designed to equip you with the knowledge and tools to excel in this domain.
