This course is a broad introduction to the use of computers in
humanistic study.  Students will survey the field of humanities
computing from computational analysis of style to meditations on
the cultural impact of computing in scholarly research and
publishing.  Students will also study several specific
technologies in detail (which may include web design, the UNIX
operating system, image processing, and other related
technologies) with an eye toward becoming proficient creators of
web-based scholarship.  Students will be expected to generate
critical work on subjects related to humanities computing and to
complete a web-based project.

This course will consist of seminar-style discussions of
important critical work in humanities computing and formal
instruction technologies relevant to computing in the humanities.

Critical discussions may include several of the following topics:

A. Important early work in humanities computing.
B. Stylometrics and authorship attribution studies.
C. Computational linguistics.
D. Cultural impact of computing on research and publishing.
E. History of computers and information technology.
F. Design theory (particularly as it relates to the World Wide 
Web).
G. Digital libraries and archives.
H. Literary and artistic representations of computers and
information technology.

Formal technological instruction may include the following 
topics:

A. UNIX.  Fundamental concepts of the UNIX operating system with
an introduction to the user command set.
B. Text editing.  Text editing in UNIX using Emacs and/or Vi.
C. Text processing.  Basic text analysis techniques using
standard UNIX tools.
D. Web design.  Hypertext Markup Language (without the use of RAD
tools) and Cascading Style Sheets.
E. Image and data acquisition.  The use of scanning, image
manipulation, and optical character recognition software.

Each student is responsible for informing themselves about those
standards before performing any academic work.  The professor
reserves the right to exact grade penalties (at his or her
discretion) for failure to comply with the policies of the course.