The new semester brings a wide range of courses across the Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies. From literary analysis and digital cultural collections to programming, data visualisation, artificial intelligence and geospatial methods, our courses combine perspectives from the humanities and social sciences with computational approaches.
Discover this semester’s courses from Text & Language , Images & Objects and Digital Literature & Methods, and find the course that fits your interests.
Courses from Text and Language Lab
Courses from Text and Language Lab
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What can digital methods reveal about the works of J. R. R. Tolkien? This course uses texts including The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion to explore textual modelling, metadata, annotation, copyright, narrative analysis, style and register variation, Linked Open Data and complex textual histories. Students gain hands-on experience applying computational methods to literary texts and textual traditions. -
Designed for students with introductory programming experience, this course puts Python skills into practice using humanities and social-science materials. Students work with files, text encoding, regular expressions, CSV, JSON, XML and TEI data, as well as data manipulation and visualisation. The course also introduces good practices in project organisation, version control, documentation and reproducible research. -
Das Seminar bietet einen vertieften Einblick in die Fachkultur der Digital Humanities. In kritischer Auseinandersetzung mit ihrer Geschichte und Entwicklung werden aktuelle internationale Fachdebatten und unterschiedliche Positionen diskutiert. Anhand von Fallstudien untersuchen die Studierenden aktuelle Forschungsansätze und Methoden und lernen, diese mithilfe hermeneutischer Analyse zu strukturieren, zu kategorisieren und kritisch zu reflektieren. -
Das Seminar beschäftigt sich mit vertiefenden Methoden der Kulturgeographie mit einem besonderen Schwerpunkt auf GIS und Geodatenanalyse. Studierende lernen, räumliche Daten und digitale geographische Methoden für kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Fragestellungen einzusetzen und kritisch zu reflektieren.
Courses from Images and Objects
Courses from Images and Objects Lab
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How are digital technologies changing the ways we study culture, history and society? This introductory course provides a foundation in Digital Humanities by familiarising students with key approaches, questions, methods and data types. Students will also explore the history of DH and develop essential academic skills for further study in the field. Eingefügter Text -
This course introduces students to core methods of data visualisation in Digital Humanities. Alongside practical exercises, students learn how to translate research questions into visual analyses, choose appropriate visualisation methods, critically evaluate existing visualisations and understand how design choices influence interpretation and communication. -
From historical newsreels to contemporary TikTok videos, audiovisual materials shape how culture and society are communicated. This course explores the development of audiovisual culture and introduces computational methods for analysing audiovisual material. Students combine theoretical perspectives with hands-on assignments and critically assess both digital methods and their results. -
The AI Reading Club offers a space to engage critically with current research in artificial intelligence. Through the close reading and discussion of research papers, students can explore emerging approaches, concepts and debates in AI while developing confidence in reading and evaluating academic research. -
How can machine learning help us explore cultural collections? This course introduces students to ways of working computationally with digitised cultural materials and considers how machine-learning methods can support the analysis, organisation and interpretation of cultural collections.
Courses from Digital Literature and Methods
Courses from Digital Literature and Methods
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What does it mean to transform texts, images or objects into data? This seminar explores the theoretical, ethical and practical dimensions of data collection in Digital Humanities. Students engage with concepts such as data and capta, FAIR and CARE principles, accessibility, metadata standards and licensing before developing their own data collection project and data-management strategy. -
Poetry Slam bewegt sich zwischen Literatur, Performance und sozialem Ereignis. Im Seminar untersuchen die Studierenden das Format aus literatur- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Perspektiven und verbinden diese mit Methoden der Digital Humanities. Gemeinsame Besuche von Poetry-Slam-Veranstaltungen ermöglichen es, das Format sowohl wissenschaftlich als auch in seiner konkreten Aufführungssituation zu analysieren. -
Kann man literarischen Stil messen? Das Seminar beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, was Stil eigentlich ist, wodurch er beeinflusst wird und wie unterschiedliche Formen literarischen Stils computergestützt untersucht werden können. Anhand eines Korpus deutschsprachiger Gegenwartsromane lernen die Studierenden Methoden der Stilometrie kennen und setzen sich mit Fragen zu Autorschaft, Epoche und Genre auseinander.
Registration is available via Campo.