Introduction to Digital Humanities

Code: HIS12024L

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: History

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Presentation

Mastering the basic digital tools and discussing the main challenges that IT represent when applied to History and Cultural Heritage.

Sustainable Development Goals

Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Inovação infraestrutura - Construir infraestrutura resiliente, promover a industrialização inclusiva e sustentável, e fomentar a inovação.

Redução das desigualdades - Reduzir as desigualdades dentro dos países e entre eles.

Learning Goals

Goals:
- Make acquaintance with national and transnational Digital Humanities projects and its scientific and cultural value;
- Reflect on some debates of this field of knowledge;
- Master basic numeric tools;
- Design a data model and deal with relational databases, in order to treat historical artifacts and documental sources;
- Master basic Technics of digital cartography.
Competences:
- Ability to describe and model some sorts of documents according to international standards using adequate tools;
- Development of critic and analytic spirits;
- Development of team spirit, respect for the other and collaborative work ;
- Recognizing the importance of digital methods in knowledge production.

1. Digital Humanities: concepts, functions, typologies, debates and research agendas.
2. Digital Humanities projects analysis: their platforms and tools.
3. Use of numeric and statistic tools with proficiency.
4. Data, information and databases.
5. Geographic Information Systems, georeferencing and digital cartography production.

Teaching Methods

The classes are developed in an experimental environment of the different contents, in order to lead the student to fulfill an adequate level of use in each of them. Sessions aim to foster students' participation and an active learning by promoting an actual know-how on diverse DH tools. Learning is enhanced by a continuous individualized follow-up of each student. In some classes students may contact with invited experts in DH and with their projects in order to understand to acknowledge the pertinence of this field in different working contexts.
Evaluation take two forms. Continuous evaluation is exclusively made through practical exercises regarding each of contents, never exceeding a number of 3. Final grade is achieved by an average of the three exercises grade. Final evaluation takes place in a final written exam, mostly constituted by practical exercises.