Participation (15%): Participation in class discussions and activities is worth a significant fraction of your grade. In addition to participation in class discussions, class participation will include credit for quizzes and in-class activities. If you complete the learning activities in good faith and show you have been paying attention to class readings and lectures, you should expect to earn full credit for your participation score.
Class DH Project Contributions (20%): Our class will work as a group to build a DH project over the course of the semester. The form of this project has been set by the instructor and is designed to give you experience with some of the different skills employed by DH practitioners. The project will be divided into several stages where we will gather and prepare sources, process and analyze those sources, and present findings to an audience. For each phase students will be asked to complete specific project tasks.
Weekly Blog (15%): Every week over the course of the semester you will complete a short (300-600 word) blog post on the class website. This blog post will reflect on your learning for the week.
Final Project Proposal (25%): Your final project will propose an idea for future digital humanities work. Your proposal be housed on a live, public, multi-media web site that you will design and build. This project will be completed in groups, and will be the focus of last third of our class.
“How did they make that?” Presentation (10%): You will compose a short (5 minute) presentation explaining how one of the DH projects on the class DH projects list was made. You should consider the sources collected, the methods of analysis, and the form of presentation chosen by this project. You will produce a short visual to accompany your presentation.
Final Reflection (15%): You will write a short (400-800 word) reflective essay about your time in our class. This reflection will explain what you learned about digital technology, the humanities, and their intersection by completing your final project proposal and other class work.
