Learning objectives
The course (6 CFU, 30h) aims to provide students with an overview of the main concepts of digital textual criticism applied to ancient and modern documentary and literary texts. The courses, aimed to beginners in the field of Digital Humanities, will inspire students focusing on: - analysis of ecdotic practices related to advanced case-studies; - basics of digital encoding and scholarly editing. At the end of the course the students will be able both to design their own digital scholarly edition according to national and international standard languages (TEI-XML) and to consider digital philology from user perspective.
- KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING: at the end of the course the students will be provided with advanced skills in the field of philology and basic skills in the field of Digital Humanities. Special attention will be given to texts close-reading, to the ecdotic/exegetic practice, to the translation of text-dependent questions in a digital language.
- APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING: students will be able to apply their knowledge in order to improve their philological skills and to achive basic skills in the field of Digital Humanities. In particular, the autonomous analysis of a scientific apparatus of poetic and prose texts will be developed. The students will be able to design and manipulate a model-edition and to translate it into a digital language.
- MAKING JUDGMENTS: the students will improve their ability to make judgments through the analysis of different case studies in the field of Digital Humanities. They will also develop autonomous thinking about the so called “digital philology”.
- COMMUNICATION SKILLS: the study of digital languages is expected to impact in a positive way on communication skills. The students will be able to report and discuss the notions learned during the classes and from the texts, with particular attention to the accurate use of language, concepts and categories, and will be able to make an appropriate use of the specific vocabulary.
- LEARNING SKILLS: the students will improve their autonomous learning ability getting used to develop a critical attitude towards the sources and the texts.