General introduction to Digital Humanities

By
Lea SAINT-RAYMOND (Researcher/ ENS-PSL)
, updated on
11 July 2023
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Course director: Léa Saint-Raymond

Valid for the DENS: 3 ECTS (Semester 1) and 6 ECTS (Semester 2). The semesters are independent: validation of S2 does not require validation of S1. 

Possibility to follow one or more sessions as an auditor, on request. 

Digital Humaities: general approach (Semester 1)

Digital humanities bring a set of tools to the field of humanities and social sciences, in order to create new knowledge and to facilitate its dissemination, analysis and archiving, through computer technologies. They also constitute a trans-discipline and a research community, which will be questioned from a critical angle.

The Observatory of Digital Humanities at ENS-PSL proposes an introductory training in two levels. The first one aims at introducing students to research practices in a digital environment.

Practical information:

Validation: attendance and a critical review of a scientific event on topics related to digital humanities or a reading note on a book or a corpus of articles dealing with a topic related to digital humanities.

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Digital Humanities: a practical training (Semester 2)

The second level of the introductory course in digital humanities, this course - which does not require validation of level 1 - introduces students to digital tools and computational data analysis. No prior knowledge is required. These courses aim to provide a solid foundation in programming and corpus visualization. They encourage the appropriation of languages and techniques and allow, in fine, to be autonomous when it comes to producing and processing data digitally.

Practical information :

Validation: attendance and technical achievement using one of the tools discussed during the semester (creation of records in Dublin Core, transcription and encoding of a manuscript, creation of an interactive map, etc.). 

Classes take place on Mondays from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm at 45 rue d'Ulm, in the conference room of the Data Science Center (staircase B, 3rd floor). 

Registration: please write to lea.saint-raymond@ens.psl.eu

Office: Observatoire des Humanités numériques de l'ENS-PSL: office BC211, on Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning (lea.saint-raymond@ens.psl.eu)