AH516 ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY DIGITAL HUMANITIES LAB
| Course Code: | 8010516 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (0.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | History of Architecture |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Assoc.Prof.Dr. PELİN YONCACI ARSLAN |
| Offered Semester: | Fall and Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
The course aims
- to expand the role of architectural history education to include diverse fields of knowledge engaging digital investigations to formulate historical narratives,
- to teach the basic vocabulary of concepts and tools in digital humanities,
- to introduce students projects, critical work, various resources in the field,
- to inform students with the research collaboration possibilities in this emerging field,
- to provide a hands-on experience of resource/repository production, data visualization, archival research, and production of timelines and multilayered maps,
- to develop critical thinking skills necessary to evaluate digital scholarship.
Course Content
The architectural history digital humanities lab aims to introduce students the current topics and critical issues that underlie digital humanities scholarship-in particular-, as they relate to architectural history. The course will be organized around three modules, each extending over a period of roughly three weeks. The first set will explore the tools and techniques related to geospatial studies, namely mapping and spatial visualizations; the second will concern techniques for network visualizations and textual analysis ; and the third will address the creation of digital exhibitions, installations and archives.
Course Learning Outcomes
Student, who passed the course satisfactorily will be able to:
- develop a digital humanities project and build first phases of a working model that can be a digital reconstruction, a map, a website, or a network,
- use a digital interface for knowledge representation and content modelling,
- identify similarities and differences between the tools of digital humanities and traditional forms of research and teaching in the humanities,
- discuss underlying theories and challenges of the field of digital humanities,
- formulate ways to interconnect the classroom with digital collections from libraries, museums and private archives,
- evaluate digital scholarship in terms of its contribution to humanities knowledge, developing new research questions, and/or using new reseach tools and content.