By the end of this course, students will…

1. Explore how knowledge in the humanities has been historically organized and how digital environments both preserve and expand those practices.

2. Learn that technology and the humanities have a long history of overlap.

3. Discover what humanists in the 21^st century consider “data”.

4. Have hands-on experience with how structured humanities data works within digital environments (encoding text, analyzing textual data, making digital maps about culture, modeling objects in 3d).

5. Appreciate both the critical, intellectual labor as well as biases that become ‘hidden’ in data.

6. Acquire new “distant” frameworks of analysis for humanities materials such as mapping and visualization, examining their affordances and limitations.

7. Participate collaboratively, and democratically, in project-based research.

8. Gain an appreciation for openness and transparency in research, balancing process and product.

9. Learn some basic aspects of digital production (data formats, simple customization, simple code, etc.)

10. Reflect on what kinds of digital humanities research projects might be most meaningful in the Arab World in 2016.