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Course Description<\/h2>\n

MW 12:00-1:20pm | 1131A JFSB<\/h3>\n

If you Google \u201cundergraduate research<\/a>,\u201d you get one thing, over and over again: students in lab coats. It\u2019s an accepted part of training for students in the sciences to work as part of a team to learn something new. The students might contribute only in small ways and they work under the direction of a faculty member, but it doesn\u2019t change the fact that they are investigating something that the professor does not yet know<\/em>.<\/p>\n

What does undergraduate research in the humanities look like? Rather than hours in a lab, it involves hours in a library. Rather than working in a team, it generally means working on your own. And, in my experience, it tends to mean reading the work of other scholars\u2014which the professor almost certainly knows already\u2014on a subject and then synthesizing them to inform your interpretations of one text or another. There\u2019s absolutely nothing wrong with this form of research; indeed, it prepares you for any number of different things one does in the \u201creal\u201d world.<\/p>\n

While situated firmly in the humanities, this course aspires to something different. We will work together<\/em> to investigate something that I do not yet know<\/em>: the relationship between the first five books of poetry by Carol Ann Duffy. We will do this using digital humanities methods, seeking to answer a question that other scholars have not yet considered. In the end, we will collectively present what we have learned to the world.<\/p>\n

By the end of the course, we will all have more experience in humanities research, digital humanities methods, and working collaboratively.<\/p>\n

Course Goals<\/h2>\n

At the end of the course, students will have<\/p>\n

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  • demonstrated an advanced level of knowledge in a chosen specialty area and conduct research in that area<\/li>\n
  • collaborated on research in a field that has traditionally privileged individual scholarship<\/li>\n
  • improved their writing by writing publicly<\/li>\n
  • learned specific technologies for digital humanities research, including the command line, GitHub, Zotero, XML encoding according to TEI standards, and some Python<\/li>\n
  • practiced deploying and the interpreting the results of computational text analysis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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