MO5162 Skills in Digital History: Maps and Text

Academic year

2024 to 2025 Semester 1

Further information on which modules are specific to your programme.

Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

30

The Scottish Credit Accumulation and Transfer (SCOTCAT) system allows credits gained in Scotland to be transferred between institutions. The number of credits associated with a module gives an indication of the amount of learning effort required by the learner. European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) credits are half the value of SCOTCAT credits.

SCQF level

SCQF level 11

The Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF) provides an indication of the complexity of award qualifications and associated learning and operates on an ascending numeric scale from Levels 1-12 with SCQF Level 10 equating to a Scottish undergraduate Honours degree.

Planned timetable

To be arranged.

This information is given as indicative. Timetable may change at short notice depending on room availability.

Module coordinator

Dr K M Lawson

This information is given as indicative. Staff involved in a module may change at short notice depending on availability and circumstances.

Module description

This digital humanities module provides students with an introduction to digital mapping in the form of historical GIS (HGIS) and computational approaches to the analysis of text. No specific technical knowledge is required before taking the course. Students will gain proficiency in the use of the software package QGIS to digitise historical maps, visualise and analyse geographical information, and produce rich maps for the illustration and heuristic exploration of historical information. In order to analyse large bodies of digitised text, students will learn regular expressions and named-entity extraction, carry our frequency and sentiment analysis, and the module will offer a survey of more advanced approaches such as topic modeling and the classification of texts. Finally, students will engage with scholarship in the critical digital humanities in order to critically evaluate the challenges and shortcomings of some of these methodologies.

Assessment pattern

100% coursework

Re-assessment

100% coursework

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

7 x 2-hour seminars and 4 x 2-hour practical classes over the semester.

Scheduled learning hours

20

The number of compulsory student:staff contact hours over the period of the module.

Guided independent study hours

280

The number of hours that students are expected to invest in independent study over the period of the module.

MO5162 Skills in Digital History: Maps and Text

Academic year

2024 to 2025 Semester 2

Further information on which modules are specific to your programme.

Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

30

The Scottish Credit Accumulation and Transfer (SCOTCAT) system allows credits gained in Scotland to be transferred between institutions. The number of credits associated with a module gives an indication of the amount of learning effort required by the learner. European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) credits are half the value of SCOTCAT credits.

SCQF level

SCQF level 11

The Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF) provides an indication of the complexity of award qualifications and associated learning and operates on an ascending numeric scale from Levels 1-12 with SCQF Level 10 equating to a Scottish undergraduate Honours degree.

Planned timetable

To be arranged.

This information is given as indicative. Timetable may change at short notice depending on room availability.

Module coordinator

Dr K M Lawson

This information is given as indicative. Staff involved in a module may change at short notice depending on availability and circumstances.

Module description

This digital humanities module provides students with an introduction to digital mapping in the form of historical GIS (HGIS) and computational approaches to the analysis of text. No specific technical knowledge is required before taking the course. Students will gain proficiency in the use of the software package QGIS to digitise historical maps, visualise and analyse geographical information, and produce rich maps for the illustration and heuristic exploration of historical information. In order to analyse large bodies of digitised text, students will learn regular expressions and named-entity extraction, carry our frequency and sentiment analysis, and the module will offer a survey of more advanced approaches such as topic modeling and the classification of texts. Finally, students will engage with scholarship in the critical digital humanities in order to critically evaluate the challenges and shortcomings of some of these methodologies.

Assessment pattern

100% coursework

Re-assessment

100% coursework

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

7 x 2-hour seminars and 4 x 2-hour practical classes over the semester.

Scheduled learning hours

20

The number of compulsory student:staff contact hours over the period of the module.

Guided independent study hours

280

The number of hours that students are expected to invest in independent study over the period of the module.