Assignments and Active Participation

  1. We meet on a weekly basis for two and a half hours (synchronic mode) which sums up to c. 30 hours over the course of the semester (equivalent to 1 credit point). See schedule for further information on the meetings.

  2. We will build a shared glossary of terms and concepts that are important in Ancient Language Processing. Students are going to work in groups of two on the terms assigned to them, providing a short definition and links to more extensive explanations. Writing will be done on the GitHub collaborative platform and will be accessible through the course homepage. (c. 30 hours = 1 credit point)

  3. Students will develop their own projects based on data provided by the instructors or by data that they contribute. The project plan requires (a) a humanistic research question, (b) operationalize it (i.e., develop a workflow to tackle the question computationally) and (c) present a poster describing their data set, methods, analysis, interpretation and results. The structure of the poster will follow a template of a typical computational humanities paper. (c. 120 hours = 4 credit points)

Assessment

Activity Number Weight (%)/activity Weight (%)
Participation 13 mandatory 0
Assignments 4 2 30
Short research paper (3,000 words) + code notebooks (github) + 20 min. presentation 1 80 70
Total (%) 100