The following courses are being offered in the Fall 2023 semester under the Humanities designation. You can also search by department to see other available courses.
CODING FOR THE HUMANITIES: PYTHON, NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING, AND MACHINE LEARNING
HUMN 305
T: 4:30-5:30
Saxton
An entry-level, humanities-oriented introduction to coding and natural language processing (NLP) with a focus on textual analysis. New technologies are radically transforming education and scholarship in the humanities, not to mention in higher education generally. In order to participate meaningfully in this changing landscape, humanities students and educators need to engage new forms of scholarship and teaching focused on technological experimentation and creative design. Such is the primary goal of this praxis-oriented course: to provide humanities students with hands-on access to emerging computational methods, to empower them to experiment, design, and build with them, and to foster critical reflection on issues and questions as they arise in that process. Offered as HUMN 305 and HUMN 405.
METHODS IN PUBLIC HUMANITIES AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
HUMN 316
T/TH: 10:00-11:15
Benay
Who has access to knowledge and why? How is knowledge produced and publicized? What and where is the public? Who is included and excluded in this public? What is the role of art and culture in various publics? This innovative new course will address these questions as it introduces students to the theories and methods of the Public Humanities and Civic Engagement. Broadly defined, Public Humanities works to engage diverse publics in the subjects of the humanities by making topics like art history, literary history, film, and theater, accessible and understandable to a wider civic audience, but it also interrogates the concept of the expert and seeks to find experts in the field, rather than exclusively in the academy. Through a combination of reading, discussion, and virtual (or in person) visits from leaders of Cleveland-area organizations, administrators, legislators, and public historians, this course will teach you how to put your degrees to work for the greater good! Although this course is about Public Humanities & Civic Engagement, it is open to students in all fields across the university who are interested in ways to integrate the community in their education and to think creatively about the types of work their academic training prepares them to do. Undergraduate and graduate students will benefit from opportunities to broaden their professional networks and to learn more about the kinds of skills that are necessary in professions across the disciplines. Offered as ARTH 316, ARTH 416, HUMN 316, and HUMN 416