Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 16, No. 303.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 06:54:23 +0000
From: Willard McCarty <w.mccarty@btinternet.com>
Subject: research methods
In response to Charles Faulhaber's query for help with teaching a research
methods course. I would suppose that as his course is being offered by a
department of Spanish, it will need to have all of its examples drawn from
that disciplinary area. But to the (large) extent it is about
computer-assisted & -affected research, it can draw on courses in
humanities computing with or without a specific disiplinary focus. The
curricula of our undergraduate minor programme,
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/undergraduate.html, our new
introductory module, http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/AY1003/, and our
MA, www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/ma/, should therefore be grist to his
mill. Courses taught at other centres can be discovered through the
directory to institutional forms of humanities computing that Matt
Kirschenbaum and I have put together,
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/allc/archive/hcim/hcim-021009.htm
(current draft only).
At induction sessions, both for undergraduates and postgraduate students, I
usually put up a table showing a highly generalized scheme for the research
process, against each stage of which is a list of the computing tools and
techniques that apply at that stage. I've found this a useful way to think
in designing and presenting a curriculum. (Of course no one scheme fits all
people nor all projects done by one person or even, strictly speaking, any
one project, really, but having one does provide a good jumping-off point.)
I usually emphasize the parts of the process (such as thinking about and
assimilating the results of research) which cannot in principle be helped
directly. Best way to make friends among the sceptical.
Yours,
WM
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