Digital Humanities and Social Sciences (ARTS30003)

How has computation changed research in the Humanities and Social Sciences? What new methods and ways of thinking have been enabled by digital technology? Does ‘analogue’ research still have a place in the digital age? These are the motivating questions of Digital Humanities and Social Sciences, a showcase subject in which students will meet researchers from across the University of Melbourne who are using digital methods to transform their disciplines. Most weeks of the subject, students will meet a guest lecturer who will present their own digital research project. In hands-on workshops, students will try out their digital methodology, and reflect on how digital technology is transforming the disciplines. Students will meet lecturers from many disciplines, from sociology to literary studies. Each guest will present a different method, be it digital text analysis, 3D modelling, flight simulation or network analysis. The precise mixture of disciplines and methods will change from year to year, depending on the current activities of researchers.