Courses 2024-2025

Autumn 2024

Core Courses

TXTDS 403 – Archives, Data and Databases
Credits: 5
GE: A&H, SSc
Instructor: Eric Flores, archivist, National Archives, Seattle

Description: Textual archives and databases; their historical construction and role as mediators to the past, bringing light to and obscuring/reshaping the past. Digitization of archives and repositories. Transformation of historical texts into data, which can be searched, processed, and analyzed in new ways. Techniques for building, organizing, and analyzing archives and databases.

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Electives

TXTDS 221 – Artificial Intelligence and Human Creativity in Historical Perspective
Credits: 5
GE: A&H
Instructors: Professor Geoffrey Turnovsky and Professor Rich Watts

Description: Impacts of artificial intelligence and technologies of automation on ideas and practices of human creativity and originality. Situates impacts in historical context of humans developing and using technologies to “enhance” their abilities to write and read from antiquity to today.

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ITAL 354/GERM 396/ GLITS 313 – Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Middle Ages
Credits: 5
GE: A&H
Instructors: Professor Beatrice Arduini and Professor Annegret Oehme

Description: Cross-cultural interactions in the Middle Ages; how diversity and interconnectivity materialize in the contexts of politics, commerce, migration, religion and similar philosophical and cultural frameworks; and examine how such ‘modern’ global phenomena find root in the ‘premodern’ world.

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AFRAM 360 A – Black Digital Studies
Credits: 5
GE: SSc and DIV
Instructor: Professor LaShawnDa Pittman

Description: Bridges and intersects two interdisciplinary fields – Black Studies and Digital Humanities. Attention to knowledge production. Role of archives, collections, research centers, the Black press, and digital technology. Ideas related to power, memory, resistance, perspective and respectability politics in storytelling and control of the vehicles used to do so.

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FRENCH 379 – French and Francophone Cultural History Through Digital Archives and Tools
Offered jointly with: FRENCH 379
GE: SSc and A&H
Instructor: Professor Geoffrey Turnovsky

Description: Digital archives and tools offer new resources for studying French and Francophone culture, literature, and history, and have transformed the way to learn about these materials. Takes advantage of new resources, as well as to understand them better: how are these technologies reshaping the ways we undertake research?

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Graduate Sections

TXTDS 503 – Introduction to Data Science: Applications in Library Science and Humanities Research
Offered jointly with: LIS 572
Instructor: Professor Melanie Walsh

Description: Textual archives and databases; their historical construction and role as mediators to the past, bringing light to and obscuring/reshaping the past. Digitization of archives and repositories. Transformation of historical texts into data, which can be searched, processed, and analyzed in new ways. Techniques for building, organizing, and analyzing archives and databases.
Course counts towards the Graduate Certificate in Textual and Digital Studies.

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FRENCH 590 – French and Francophone Cultural History Through Digital Archives and Tools
Offered jointly with: FRENCH 379
Instructor: Professor Geoffrey Turnovsky

Description: Digital archives and tools offer new resources for studying French and Francophone culture, literature, and history, and have transformed the way to learn about these materials. Takes advantage of new resources, as well as to understand them better: how are these technologies reshaping the ways we undertake research?
Course counts towards the Graduate Certificate in Textual and Digital Studies.

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Winter 2025

Core Courses

TXTDS 401 – Text Technologies: History of Print in South Asia
Offered jointly with TXTDS 501 and ASIAN 541
Credits: 5
GE: A&H and SSc
Professor Jennifer Dubrow
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Course counts as a Core Course in Textual Studies and Digital Humanities Minor

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TXTDS 401 – Text Technologies: The Middle East illustrated. Visual and Verbal Storytelling in Graphic Novels
Offered jointly with MELC 286 and GLITS 314C
Credits: 5
GE: A&H and SSc
Professor Selim Kuru
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Course counts as a Core Course in Textual Studies and Digital Humanities Minor

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TXTDS 402 – Book Arts: Art History of the Book
Offered jointly with ART H 422
Credits: 5
GE: A&H and SSc
Professor Juliet Sperling
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Course counts as a Core Course in Textual Studies and Digital Humanities Minor

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Electives

TXTDS 267 – Data Science and the Humanities
Offered jointly with: ASIAN 207 C
Credits: 5
GE: A&H
Professor Gian Duri Rominger
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Course counts as an elective in Textual Studies and Digital Humanities Minor

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TXTDS 321 – Text Reuse, Artificial Intelligence and the Art of Stealing
Credits: 5
GE: A&H
Professor Melanie Walsh and Professor Anna Preus
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Course counts as an elective in Textual Studies and Digital Humanities Minor

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SCAND 217 – Sagas of the Vikings
Credits: 5
GE: A&H
Professor Timothy Bourns
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Course counts as an elective in Textual Studies and Digital Humanities Minor

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ENGL 225 – Shakespeare
Credits: 5
GE: A&H
Professor Rhema Hokama
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Course counts as an elective in Textual Studies and Digital Humanities Minor

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ASIAN 404: Writing Systems
Credits: 5
GE: A&H
Professor Liyao Chen
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Counts as a Core Course in Textual Studies and Digital Humanities Minor

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Graduate Sections

TXTDS 501 – Text Technologies: History of Print in South Asia
Instructor: Professor Jennifer Dubrow
> Course counts towards the Graduate Certificate in Textual and Digital Studies

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Spring 2025

Core Courses

TXTDS 402: Book Arts: Proseminar in Printing, Bibliography and Special Collections
Credits: 5
GE: A&H
For info and an add code, contact Professor Geoffrey Turnovsky

Description: This small seminar will offer students interested in the Textual Studies and Digital Humanities minor a chance to discover Special Collections and to get hands-on experience working with historical and archival materials as well as printing with a letterpress.

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TXTDS 404/TXTDS 504: Texts, Publics, and Publication
Credits: 5
GE: A&H and SSc [for TXTDS 404]
Professor Geoffrey Turnovsky
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TXTDS 404 counts as a Core Course in Textual Studies and Digital Humanities Minor
TXTDS 504 counts towards the Graduate Certificate in Textual and Digital Studies

Description: This course offers a hands-on exploration of the nature of texts, of the complexities of transforming and working with historical texts as data; of the practice of editing in a digital environment using historical printed sources, and of issues connected to publication, visualization, interface, reading, and access. Students will work in teams to develop digital editions based on printed or manuscript sources, potentially working with items or collections in UW Special Collections.

In the course, we’ll learn the essentials of digital text editing and encoding, including transcription in XML using the widely-adopted guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) along with protocols for collaboration. We’ll also look at text processing using XML-based languages like XPath, XSLT and XQuery, and basic techniques for web publishing. No prior experience with any of this is required or expected.

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Electives

TXTDS 220 – Making Manuscripts: Manuscript an dHandwriting Technology from Antiquity to Today
Credits: 5
GE: A&H
Professor Beatrice Arduini
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Course counts as an elective in Textual Studies and Digital Humanities Minor

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MELC 211 – Introduction to Myths of the Ancient Middle East
Credits: 5
GE: A&H
Professor Kathryn Medill
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Course counts as an elective in Textual Studies and Digital Humanities Minor

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MELC 340 – Translation Studies: Gulliver’s Travels Among Muslims and Jews
Credits: 5
GE: A&H
Professor Canan Bolel
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Course counts as an elective in Textual Studies and Digital Humanities Minor

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ENGL 322 – Medieval and Early Modern Literatures of Encounter
Credits: 5
GE: A&H and DIV
Professor Rhema Hokama
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Course counts as an elective in Textual Studies and Digital Humanities Minor

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SCAND 372 – Old Norse-Icelandic
Credits: 5
GE: A&H
Professor Lauren Poyer
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Course counts as an elective in Textual Studies and Digital Humanities Minor

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ART H 400 – Art History and Criticism: Haiti and Print Culture in the Age of Revolution
Credits: 5
GE: A&H
Professor Jennifer Baez
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Course counts as an elective in Textual Studies and Digital Humanities Minor and towards the Graduate Certificate in Textual and Digital Studies

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Capstone — offered all quarters (including summer)

TXTDS 405: Capstone in Textual Studies and Digital Humanities
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Description: Capstone (culminating experience) for the Textual Studies and Digital Humanities minor.


Tentative schedule for 2024-2025

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