Courses 2024-2025

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Autumn Quarter
  • 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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  • 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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  • 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 Quarter
  • TXTDS 401 B – 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

    Course counts as a Core Course in Textual Studies and Digital Humanities Minor

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  • TXTDS 401 C – Text Technologies: The Middle East Illustrated
    Offered jointly with MELC 286, MELC 596 B and GLITS 314 C
    Credits: 5
    GE: A&H and SSc
    Professor Selim Sirri Kuru

    Course counts as a Core Course in Textual Studies and Digital Humanities Minor

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  • TXTDS 403 – Archives, Data and Databases: Text Reuse, Artificial Intelligence and the Art of Stealing
    Offered jointly with ENGL 413 and INFO 498
    Credits: 5
    GE: A&H
    Professor Melanie Walsh and Professor Anna Preus

    Course counts as a Core Course in Textual Studies and Digital Humanities Minor

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  • 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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  • TXTDS 401 C – Text Technologies: The Middle East Illustrated
    Offered also as MELC 596 B
    Credits: 5
    GE: A&H and SSc
    Professor Selim Sirri Kuru

    Course counts as a Core Course in Textual Studies and Digital Humanities Minor and TDS Certificate

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  • TXTDS 403 – Archives, Data and Databases: Text Reuse, Artificial Intelligence and the Art of Stealing
    Offered jointly with ENGL 413 and INFO 498
    Credits: 5
    GE: A&H
    Professor Melanie Walsh and Professor Anna Preus

    Course counts as a Core Course in Textual Studies and Digital Humanities Minor and TDS Certificate

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Spring Quarter
  • 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. The course will be limited to 12 students enrolled in the minor. Counts as a Core Course in the TXTDS minor and TDS Grad Certificate.

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  • TXTDS 404 — Texts, Publics, and Publication
    Offered with TXTDS 504
    Credits: 5
    GE: A&H and SSc
    Professor Geoffrey Turnovsky

    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. Counts as a core course in the TXTDS minor.

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  • TXTDS 220 – Making Manuscripts: Manuscript an dHandwriting Technology from Antiquity to Today
    Credits: 5
    GE: A&H
    Professor Beatrice Arduini

    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

    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

    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

    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 Timothy Bourns

    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

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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

    Course counts as a core course in the Graduate Certificate in Textual and Digital Studies

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  • TXTDS 504: Texts, Publics, and Publication
    Credits: 5
    Professor Geoffrey Turnovsky

    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. Counts towards the Graduate Certificate in Textual and Digital Studies

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Capstone

    TXTDS 405: Capstone in Textual Studies and Digital Humanities

    Description: Capstone (culminating experience) for the Textual Studies and Digital Humanities minor. For more information on the capstone, check out the capstone information page.

    Offered all quarters, including summer

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Schedule for 2024-2025

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