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	<h2>Introduction to Digital Text Editing and Analysis</h2>
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  <p>"Material omitted from the body of a text, and appended as a supplement."</p>
  <small>"Parlipomena" in the <cite title="www.oed.com/view/Entry/137457">Oxford English Dictionary</cite></small>
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		This course provides an introduction to the theory and methods of the digital humanities from the disciplinary perspectives of history and religious studies. The course is designed for graduate students of history, religion, historical theology or classics who would like to acquire research skills in the techniques of digital text editiing and analysis. Students will learn the fundamentals of digital text editing and the computational analysis of digital corpora. Students will also engage with theorectical questions concerning the nature of texts and the challenge of representing the past through new media. By the conclusion of the course, students will have built a working propotype of a digital database specific to their research needs.
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