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A Four Course Sequence

Tufts DH continues to innovate with its brand new digital humanities minor! See below for details:

Minor requirements

• The four required digital humanities courses (or equivalent):
  • DH 101: Introduction to Digital Humanities – introduces students to the history and motivation underlying the Digital Humanities and walks them through the basic Python skills needed to succeed in the field.
  • DH 110: Geospatial Humanities – presents the tools and approaches used to work with geospatial data in the humanities, including data collection and cleaning, advanced analysis, and cartography.
  • DH 120: Quantitative Text Analysis – examines the statistical methods used in corpus linguistics, while providing students with a comprehensive overview of probability, statistics and R in the context of textual analysis.
  • DH 130: Natural Language Processing and the Human Record – builds on the skills of the previous courses to give students a seminar level course focusing on advanced language modeling methods in which they will develop their Python skills through a course project.
• Two additional elective courses (a suggested coming soon)

What to expect from the minor

The minor is designed to give students a background in many common digital humanities methods, including geospatial analysis, distant reading and language modeling. Students will also show advanced skills in a certain method and subject area of their choosing through course projects, especially in DH 130.

Students can expect to gain a proficiency in both the R and Python programming languages and will get hands-on experience with data analysis and the critical thinking skills needed to pursue this analysis in a thoughtful and ethical manner.

Please visit our Contact Us page for any specific questions.

Skilled in natural language processing (NLP)? Check out the Digital Humanities NLP Specialist position open at Tufts Technology Services: https://tufts.taleo.net/careersection/ext/jobdetail.ftl?job=19001350&lang=en#.XMhZY24eI8I.link

Check out the post from DHNow:
http://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2018/07/torn-apart-separados-invites-contributors-and-reviewers/

From the CFParticipation:

Torn Apart / Separados (http://xpmethod.plaintext.in/torn-apart/index.html) is inviting contributors and reviewers to help us in the following:

1. Peer review of certain sections of the project, offer feedback on how effectively we articulated the purpose of the project, the experience of undertaking research, the decisions we made while designing data visualizations, site navigation, and the difficult political and ethical choices we made in the process.

Read more here.

Interested in Digital South Asian Studies? Want to learn about digital archaeology, archives, and Buddhism?

Come to “Archiving Hindu Gaya: Sacred Centers in India” on March 27th from 5;30-7:30pm in Cabot 206.

Hear Dr. Abhishek Amar, Assistant Professor Religious Studies at Hamilton College, talk about his digital research projects.

Brought to you by The Center for South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies (CSAIOS), The Department of Religion, and the Archaeology Program.

To learn more, visit the project website. 

Want to see musical instruments being 3D printed? Play an Arduino-based theramin? Try out a recording studio? Experience digital historical soundscapes?

Come to ComputeFest: Sound on March 8th from 1:30-3:30 in the Digital Design Studio (DDS)!

Try your hand at sound distortion, explore sound archives and sound visualization tools, and see some student projects from the music engineering minor.

All are welcome!

Questions?

Contact Annie Swafford (Joanna.swafford@tufts.edu).

Daniel Jay, Dean of The Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, is also an established artist. His recent series, “Gunpowder Archemy,” is made from volatile chemicals. Remaining unmixed on canvas, in their fluid state these chemicals have the potential to cause explosions, speaking to the power of a material being dependent on the hands they are used by. 

Dean Jay was one of twenty artists at the Inaugural Tech Art Fair to have their works selected for inclusion in the SciArt Center of New York’s virtual exhibition as part of the Tech Art Fair at the Ontario Science Centre, February 17 and 18th.

Music professor David Locke’s Dagomba Dance-Drumming project was recently profiled in Choice, the publishing branch of the ACRL.