DH Redesign Of An Existing Introductory Literature Survey

Authors

Eli Cohen, Swarthmore CollegeFollow

Document Type

Assignment

Publication Date

Fall 2016

Published In

Introduction To Spanish Literature/Introducción A La Literatura Española

Abstract

This assignment represents an initial attempt to redesign Spanish 022, an introductory survey of Spanish literature from the Middle Ages through the present, in a manner that integrates digital tools with literary and historical scholarship at the undergraduate level. In addition to more traditional methods of critical analysis, students will be asked to engage with and develop complementary modes of thinking about and presenting the history of Spanish literature through practices associated with ‘distant reading’ and the development of a digital exhibition consisting of a visual and textual chronology of Spanish literature from its origins through the twenty-first century. The central objective of this redesign is to enable students to engage with a broad array of material in a non-traditional format in order to better understand the relationships that emerge between different objects of study; to assemble these objects of study according to both linear and non-linear models; and to visualize and present verbal data in unconventional and unexpected ways.

Funding Agency

Swarthmore College Provost Office

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

Comments

Professor Eli Cohen was awarded a Digital Humanities Curricular Grant from the Swarthmore College Provost's Office for use in his Fall 2016 course, Introduction To Spanish Literature/Introducción A La Literatura Española (SPAN 22). The course syllabus, assignment instructions, and a screenshot documenting one of the assignments are made freely available here courtesy of the author.

Recommended Citation

Eli Cohen. (2016). "DH Redesign Of An Existing Introductory Literature Survey". Introduction To Spanish Literature/Introducción A La Literatura Española. DOI: 10.24968/2476-2458.span.108
https://works.swarthmore.edu/fac-spanish/108