Digital Humanities Courses 2016-2017
UNDERGRADUATE COURSES
LLCU 212. Understanding Digital and Social Media. (3 credits)
Lectures will explore a range of topics related to technologies of contemporary digital and social media, with particular attention to understanding technical, historical, ethical and legal issues. Tutorials will help students to express themselves effectively with digital media, and especially on the web (HTML, images, audio, video).
LLCU 255. Introduction to Large Language Models for Text Analysis (3 credits)
How might thinking about literature as data change our understanding of foundational categories like author, text, work, narrative, plot, character or even language? In order to address these questions, this course will introduce you to the basic concepts and practices of text mining (vector space models, distributional semantics, sentiment analysis, topic modeling, and social network analysis) and the ways in which they have been applied to the study of literature. Weekly assignments will introduce you to the R software environment and will culminate in a final project of your own choosing. No prior programming experience is required.
(3 credits)
This course will provide a conceptual and practical understanding of how to leverage technologies in a range of common activities such as searching, social networking, presenting, and creating web content. The emphasis will be on using and understanding digital technologies in effective and ethical ways in our digital society.
LLCU 498. Digital Project. (3 credits)
Students will pursue digital projects through group instruction and individual supervision. Emphasis will be placed on effective project planning, appropriate research, theoretical framing, and effective communication. Students will be expected to present their work at an open symposium event at the end of term.
GRADUATE COURSES
Digital Humanities
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LLCU 612. Literary Text Mining.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Digital texts are composed of discrete units of information that have the virtue of being infinitely malleable and reconfigurable, allowing new practices for searching, filtering, comparing, annotating, measuring, representing and understanding texts. From single works to virtual libraries, from canonical classics to contemporary social media, digital texts can provide rich fodder for interpretive practices in the digital humanities. This course will provide students with theoretical and practical foundations for working with a variety of digital texts.
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Cultural and Literary Theory
ENGL 785. Studies in Theory.
Credits: 3
Offered by: English (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A seminar on theory. Topic varies by year.
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ENGL 778. Studies in Visual Culture.
Credits: 3
Offered by: English (Graduate Studies)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description
This seminar concentrates on theories of visual culture, including but not limited to photography, film, television, nonphotographic imagery, digital and interactive media, and the relation of image to text.
- For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at www.mcgill.ca/english.
- Enrolment maximum: 15
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ENGL 708. Studies in a Literary Form.
Credits: 3
Offered by: English (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A seminar on a literary genre, mode, or form. Topic varies by year.
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ENGL 670. Topics in Cultural Studies.
Credits: 3
Offered by: English (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This seminar covers specific topics in theories of culture, media studies, cinema studies. The focus may fall on a particular theory or theorist, a filmmaker, or genre.
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- Enrolment maximum: 15
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ENGL 587. Theoretical Approaches to Cultural Studies.
Credits: 3
Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
Advanced study of theoretical issues in and approaches to cultural studies.
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- Winter
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ANTH 603. Theory 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Anthropology (Graduate Studies)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
A survey of theories and methods employed in anthropology.
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COMS 541. Cultural Industries.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Art History & Communications (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The convergence of computerized technologies and cultural industries and how these have produced entire new forms of cultural expression in film, TV, and the Internet.
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COMS 611. History/Theory/Technology.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Art History & Communications (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A critical appraisal of current issues in the field of communications notably through an examination of how new theorists have dealt with the effects and consequences of developments in the technologies of communication. The contributions of Canadian media theorists figure significantly in the seminar's concerns.
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COMS 647. Emerging Media.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Art History & Communications (Graduate Studies)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
Critical analysis of emergent media technologies, practices and institutions.
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COMS 683. Special Topics in Media and Politics.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Art History & Communications (Graduate Studies)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
Emergent themes in media and politics, and their application to current issues in communication studies.
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SOCI 720. Reading in Social Theory.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Sociology (Graduate Studies)
Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026
Description
Supervised readings in social theory supervised by a member of staff. Topics will be chosen to suit individual interests.
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Computational and Quantitative Methods
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SOCI 580. Social Research Design and Practice.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Sociology (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description
Asking researchable sociological questions and evaluation of different research designs used to answer such questions. Development of cogent research proposals, including data collection procedures. Principles, dynamics, strengths and practical limitations of research designs. Examples from recent publications.
- Restriction: Open to U3 and graduate students
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