Department of Religious Studies

REL 370.001

Digital Texts and the Humanities

T | 3:30-5:50

PRH 210

How does Google know word frequencies from 1850 – https://books.google.com/ngrams? How might scholars use machines to read differently? This course explores digital texts: how they’re made and the questions we can ask with and about them. We’ll assemble and analyze a digital corpus, learn some computer programming, and discuss the implications of treating words as data.

Jeri Wieringa

• Office hours: 

  Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 1:30pm – 3pm.

• (205) 348-5271
• jewieringa@ua.edu