Course: Introduction to Digital Humanities

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Course title Introduction to Digital Humanities
Course code KOL/IDH
Organizational form of instruction Seminary
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction English
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Matlach Vladimír, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
Structure of the course Digital Humanities now, why? - brief history on working with human related data Analyzing tables - when it stops to be boring and why - understanding what it is about to analyze data - data representations and vectorization from texts, images, movies, relationships The means - the role of statistics, multidimensional statistics, machine learning, artificial intelligence - applications Metainformation - the role of metadata and metainformation Mining and interpreting human made data - tables in general, questionaries, surveys - relationships, graphs and social networks - images, movies and multimedia - texts and corporas - sequences Use everything - combining all to mine real structured and unstructured data

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Learning outcomes
The aim of this course is to provide the audience with an insight into how different types of data or metadata can be processed, interpreted and mined, which are consciously, unconsciously, actively and passively created by people in digital and digitizable form. The course focuses on enumerating the basic skills, tools and disciplines that enable such data to be processed and thus provide insights beyond, for example, human behaviour.

Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
(1) 100% active participation. (2) Preparation of a seminar paper (3-8 pages).
Recommended literature


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): General Lingvistics (2019) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): General Lingvistics (2022) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Summer