FACULTY OF ARTS COURSE:

F 211 : DIGITAL HUMANITIES: APPLICATION OF COMPUTER IN THE ARTS

Programme: B.A
Course Code: FAC 211
Course Title: Digital Humanities: Application of Computer in the Arts
Credit: 2
Coordinator: Prof Richard Ajah (DHuFARts)
Session: 2024/2025
Phone Number: 07039359498

COURSE OVERVIEW
The course will give the meaning of digital humanities and its short history in the Global North,
and the interface between computing and the disciplines in the Arts. It will go further to describe
the methodological and interdisciplinary scope of digital humanities, showing different
constituents of DH such as digital history, digital musicology, electronic literature, corpus
linguistics, cultural analytics, digital heritage, and the new media. Techniques of data analysis
and data mining will be exposed to the students. They will learn the application of Computer in
the Arts disciplines for entrepreneurial, research, publishing, and networking purposes. The
course will equally study the application of various digital tools such as AntConc, Voyant, R,
among others; and the new media.

LEARNING OUTCOMES
At the end of this course, the student shall be able to:
1. explain what Digital Humanities entails;
2. appraise the DH techniques tools for data analysis;
 3. appreciate the importance of computers in the Humanities;
4. apply DH to interdisciplinary research;
5. appreciate the adoption of DH tools for entrepreneurship, and
6. apply DH to new research, publishing, media, networking.
METHODOLOGY
The arm of this course is to learn about Digital Humanities and the application of computer in the
Arts. It is introductory and descriptive to enable the students understand the concept of digital
humanities, digital methods and the use of computer to address research questions in the
humanities. It adopts a normal tutorial and teaching approach, with students engaging in hand-on
activities and sharing their findings throughout the course using their computers, smartphones,
tablets or any other device avaliable to them. The students are enjoined to participate actively in
all classes, discussions and praticals as they form an integral part of the tutorial and grading. To
effectively belong to the course, all students are expected to register via Google form and
WhatsApp link as information on assignments, tutorials, recommended texts, tests, exams, etc.
shall be shared through the social platforms.

REQUIREMENTS FOR THE COURSE:

1. The course will involve hand-on activities and practicals; a student is expected to procure
(where it does exist) any of the following: Android phone, laptop, tablet, chromebook, or
any compatible electronic device. He/she should be ready to provide a personal internet
connectivity and a Google email.
2. Because the vast majority of the learning in this class will occur within the classroom, all
students are required to attend class regularly as attendance will be taken during each
class.
3. Class participation is a critical element of the course as it will involve excercises, demos,
hand-ons, practicals, etc. Class attendance is not sufficient without active participation;
each student is expected to participate in the class activities as his/her contribution to the
collaborative learning environment and the making of classroom experience. This is
important for receiving a good grade.
RECOMMENDED TEXTS:
a. Research Methods for the Digital Humanities edited by Lewis Levengberg, Tai Nelson
and David Rheams, Palgrave Macmillian, 2018. Ebook.
b. Digital Humanities by Anne Burdick, Johanna Drucker, Peter Lunenfeld, Todd Presner,
and Jeffrey Schnapp, the MIt Press, 2012.
c. Introduction to Digital Humanities by Johanna Drucker with David Kim, Iman Salehian,
and Anthony Bushong, First Edition, 2014.
COURSE EXPECTATIONS
Assignment and course work:
In order to receive a credit in this course, assignments need to be done and submitted electronically.
Students are to participate in hand-on activities, practicals and tests scheduled by the course
lecturers. The students should:
• Adopt teamwork approach in handling questions and challenges arising from the
assignment.
• Have an Android phone or any compatible electronic device to be used for hand-on
activities and practicals. In addition, he/she shall create a personal Google email for
submission of assignments.
• Be involved in all necessary classes and tutorials whose reading materials shall be shared
through different class WhatsApp platforms .
The final examination will be based on all the materials covered in this outline including class
lectures, hand-on activities, discussions, and assignments.

Tentative course activities

Timeline Topics/activities Reference/Reading Lecturers

Week 1 Introduction to the course: - Digital Humanities by Anne
History of humanities Burdick et al
computing and Digital - “Annals of Humanities
Humanities (DH) and Computing: the Index Thomisticus
implications to academic by Roberto Busa, Computers and
research in the the Humanities 14 (1980), 83-90
humanities: - “Digital Humanities as Tools for
interdisciplinarity, Refining and Remodelling
collaboration, etc. Humanities Scholarship” by
Benefits of Digital Tunde Ope-Davis, DHuFARTs
Humanities and its Webinar Series, 2023.
challenges in the Global
South
Week 2 Part 1: Definition of - “What is Digital Humanities?”
Digital Humanities and by Robert Peter EFOP-3.4.3-
different strands of DH in 16-2016-00014
the humanities: cultural - “Introduction to African
analytics, digital Electronic Literature” by
musicology, media Richard Ajah, MADSEJ, 1(1),
studies, electronic 2023, 56-66.
literature, corpus - Digital History by A.B. Vivek,
linguistics, digital history University of Calicut DIGITAL
(archiving), etc. HISTORY 2.pmd
- Digital Humanities: A New
Horizon in Historical
Pedagogy by Dr. Saidu, Israel
 A. DHuFARTs Webinar Series,
2023.
- Cultural Analytics by Lev
Manovich, MIT Press, 2020.

Week 3 Part 2: Definition of - “What is Digital Humanities?”

Digital Humanities and by Robert Peter EFOP-3.4.3-
different strands of DH in 16-2016-00014
the humanities: cultural - “Introduction to African
analytics, digital Electronic Literature” by
musicology, media Richard Ajah, MADSEJ, 1(1),
studies, electronic 2023, 56-66.
literature, corpus - Digital History by A.B. Vivek,
linguistics, digital history University of Calicut DIGITAL
(archiving), etc. HISTORY 2.pmd
- Cultural Analytics by Lev
Manovich, MIT Press, 2020.

Week 4 What are computers and - Introduction to Digital

other computing devicies Humanities by Johanna
(android, smartphones, Drucker.
tablets, etc.)? Definition - “How Computers Affected the
of key concepts such as Humanities” by Emanuele
HTML, SGML, Mark Up, Salerno, Journal of Science
TEI, big data, etc. What Communication, 3, 2002. DOI:
are the importances of 10.22323/2.01030201 · Source:
Computers in the DOAJ
humanities (application,
tools, infrastructure,
services, etc.)?
Week 5 Critical Data Studies : A. Hall, Gary. “Toward a
what is data? What is data Postdigital Humanities:
collection? What is data Cultural Analytics and the
mining? What are Open Computational Turn to Data-
data, big data, Open Driven Scholarship.” American
Access, Open Literature 85.4 (2013): 781–
Government, 809.
crowdsourcing, etc.? B. “Fair Guiding Principles for
What is FAIR (Findable, Scientific Data Management
Accessible, Interoperable and Stewardship” by Mark D.
and Reusable) in data? Wilkinson et al, SCIENTIFIC
What is CARE DATA | 3:160018 | DOI:
(Collective benefits, 10.1038/sdata.2016.18 1
Authority to control,
Responsibility, Ethics)?
 Practical
session/Assignment: the
gathering of data through
Google form and Google
drive.
Week 6 DH and Data Analysis 1. A-Z of Digital Research
Methods Methods byCatherine Dawson,
a. Audio analysis Routledge, 2020.
(acoustic analysis,
Audio diary
analysis,
multimodal
analysis, music
retrieval analysis,
psychoacoustic
analysis, semantic
audio analysis,
etc.
b. Big Data analysis
c. Data analystics,
d. Game analystics,
e. Machine learning
f. Smartphone app-
based research,
etc.
Week 7 Workshop Series 1: - “From Gutenberg to Google
From Gutenberg to and Now to AI: The Emergence
Google and Now to AI: of the Digital Humanities as
The Emergence of the Human Sciences” by Felix Oke,
Digital Humanities as DHuFARTs Webinar Series,
Human Sciences 2023.
Week 8 Workshop Series 2A: - “Easy to Use DH Tools” by
Introduction to digital James Akinola, DHuFARTs
tools : AntConc Webinar Series, 2023.
Week 9 Workshop Series 2B: - A Gentle Introduction to Text Analysis
Introduction to digital with Voyant by Madelynn Dickerson
tools : Voyant (PowerPoint Presentation)
All submissions are to be sent via : [email protected]
Week 10 Digital Humanities - https://www.gutenberg.org
Infrastructures :libraries, - https://www.cedhul.edu.ng
Centers, databases (text, - https://www.clarin.eu
image, video, audio, etc) , - https://sadilar.org
etc.
a. Project Gutenberg
b. Center for Digital
Humanities of
 University of
Lagos (CEDHUL)
c. CLARIN -
EUROPE.
d. SADiLaR -South
Africa
Week 11 DH and Social Media As above.
Studies
a. Definitions of
Social media
b. Uses of social
media
c. Social media
and
networking
d. Social media
and publishing
e. Social media
and content
creation
Week 12 Digital Humanities and “Digital Humanities and Digitized
Cultural Heritage Cultural Heritage” by Melissa Terras
f. GLAM (pp.255-266). In James O’Sullivan
(Gallery, (ed), The Bloomsbury Handbook to the
Library, Digital Humanities, Bloomsbury,
Archive, 2023.
Museum) https://x.com, https://tiktok.com
sector
g. Cultural data
and
preservation
on Social
media
(TikTok,
Facebook. X
and Non-
Fungible
Token(NFT))q
h. Cultural
analystics

Week 13 Revision
Week 14 Revision
Examination

Prof. Richard Ajah

DhuFARTs, UniUyo