Universität Wien

420008 SE Digital practices in text research: resources and methods (2024S)

8.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 42 - Philologisch-Kulturwissenschaftliches Doktoratsstudium
Continuous assessment of course work
Moodle
Fr 03.05. 09:45-11:15 Class Room 4 ZID UniCampus Hof 7 Eingang 7.1 2H-O1-33

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 25 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Friday 08.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 1 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-EG-17
Friday 15.03. 09:45 - 11:15 Class Room 4 ZID UniCampus Hof 7 Eingang 7.1 2H-O1-33
Friday 22.03. 09:45 - 11:15 Class Room 4 ZID UniCampus Hof 7 Eingang 7.1 2H-O1-33
Friday 22.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Class Room 4 ZID UniCampus Hof 7 Eingang 7.1 2H-O1-33
Friday 12.04. 09:45 - 11:15 Class Room 4 ZID UniCampus Hof 7 Eingang 7.1 2H-O1-33
Friday 12.04. 11:30 - 13:00 Class Room 4 ZID UniCampus Hof 7 Eingang 7.1 2H-O1-33
Friday 03.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Class Room 4 ZID UniCampus Hof 7 Eingang 7.1 2H-O1-33
Friday 17.05. 09:45 - 11:15 Class Room 4 ZID UniCampus Hof 7 Eingang 7.1 2H-O1-33
Friday 17.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Class Room 4 ZID UniCampus Hof 7 Eingang 7.1 2H-O1-33
Friday 31.05. 09:45 - 11:15 Class Room 4 ZID UniCampus Hof 7 Eingang 7.1 2H-O1-33
Friday 31.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Class Room 4 ZID UniCampus Hof 7 Eingang 7.1 2H-O1-33
Friday 07.06. 09:45 - 11:15 Class Room 4 ZID UniCampus Hof 7 Eingang 7.1 2H-O1-33
Friday 07.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Class Room 4 ZID UniCampus Hof 7 Eingang 7.1 2H-O1-33
Friday 21.06. 09:45 - 11:15 Class Room 4 ZID UniCampus Hof 7 Eingang 7.1 2H-O1-33
Friday 21.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Class Room 4 ZID UniCampus Hof 7 Eingang 7.1 2H-O1-33

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The course provides an overview of the role of digital approaches in contemporary cultural and textual studies and the new possibilities they offer. The key topics of the course will concern the use of corpora in linguistics and humanties research, topics on cultural analytics, big data and smart data in the humanities. The course will involve practicum on corpus building and analysis, reading and discussion of papers, exploration of online resources and analysis of methodological issues. The choice of the topics in focus will adjust to the research interests of the students. The aim of the course is to provide the students with digital instruments for text analysis for their doctoral research and to give some basic overview of the current trends in the digital textual studies

Assessment and permitted materials

The assessment consists of the following partial performances:
- careful preparation of the texts to be read and active contributions to the text reviews and discussions. (30%)
- small presentation on the papers which concern students topics of interest (30%)
- oral presentation on the topic agreed upon at the beginning of the semester. (40%)

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Regular attendance, text reading (30%), positively assessed short presentations (30%) and positively assessed final project (40%); to pass, all sub-parts must be positive and at least 60% must be achieved (100-90% Very Good, 80-89% Good, 79-70% Satisfactory, 69-60% Sufficient).

Examination topics

Contents taught in the course, scripts and materials, students' own research

Reading list

The list will be adjusted to the student's topics of interest and will be available on Moodle

Association in the course directory

Last modified: Fr 22.03.2024 10:27