19.601 PhD Reading Lists

              Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 19, No. 601.
      Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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         From: Ray Siemens <siemensr_at_MALA.BC.CA>
         Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 09:13:33 -0800
         Subject: Doctoral Reading Lists in Humanities Computing
                  and the Digital Humanities
 
Dear Fellow HUMANISTs,

My department and faculty are moving toward offering specialisations of
several kinds in humanities computing and the digital humanities,
including graduate coursework and PhD-level candidacy in the area.
We're now exploring the possibility of setting a standard reading-list
framework for doctoral candidacy exams, and I write to ask if any in our
group with experience in this might like to share some of their
gleanings.

Ideally, I'd like to be able to bring to my local colleagues, most of
whom will not have a background in the area, both a sense of why it is
important (from a variety of perspectives) to provide such a reading
list and what similar readings lists at other institutions look like.
I'd welcome any and all thoughts and examplary lists!

All best wishes,

Ray
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R.G. Siemens
English, University of Victoria, PO Box 3070 STN CSC, Victoria, BC,
Canada. V8W 3W1
Phone: (250) 721-7272 Fax: (250) 721-6498
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Received on Thu Feb 09 2006 - 19:39:06 EST