Seminar 2018
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Digital Humanities Certificate Program
- Program start in fall 2021 - seminars already completed are creditable -
The Digital Humanities certificate program is designed to provide advanced students in the humanities with an application-oriented parallel qualification. This includes basic informatics competencies as well as project-related applications of Digital Humanities:
Basic informatics competencies
- Knowledge of basic concepts and applications of programming
- Knowledge of types, functions and applications of databases
- Knowledge of concepts, procedures and methods of computer modeling and software engineering
- Knowledge of concepts and functionalities of web technologies
Applications of the Digital Humanities
- Knowledge of the epistemic location and application fields of the Digital Humanities,
- Acquisition of competencies to independently plan, implement and evaluate the digital treatment of topics in the humanities and cultural studies,
- Acquisition of practice-relevant knowledge for the conception and the application of third-party funded projects in the Digital Humanities.
The degree in the Digital Humanities certificate program qualifies students, when combined with a suitable master's or doctoral program, for the application of diverse and complex tasks either in the field of digital humanities as well as in collection, research, and outreach contexts after a corresponding period of familiarization in professional practice.
Scope: 30 ECTS credit points
Duration of study: 2 semesters
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Summer Semester 2026
DH 2: Methods of Digital Humanities
Course title: Research Colloquium: Methods of Digital Humanities
Type of course: Colloquium
Instructor: Prof. Dr. Sander Münster de
Time: Friday, 12:00–14:00
Location: Hybrid (online and DH meeting room)
Assessment format: Presentation & exposé
Maximum number of participants: 20
Short description:
Digital Humanities is a young but already very broad field at the intersection of the humanities and computer science, involving much more than the digitization of humanities data. For example, in linguistics, literary studies, and history, methods from AI and language technology are used to model humanities research questions based on texts. Methods from image processing or geoinformatics also have various fields of application, for example in history and art history.
The colloquium is designed as a “rotating seminar,” in which, after a brief introduction, one research topic from the Digital Humanities is discussed each week. Participants will gain an overview of Digital Humanities as a research field and will also learn which practical approaches and methodological perspectives computer scientists and humanities scholars use in Digital Humanities—and, above all, how they collaborate. The colloquium has no prerequisites and is explicitly aimed at both computer scientists and humanities scholars from various disciplines.
The research-oriented colloquium is aimed at advanced students and doctoral candidates who would like to:
- Become familiar with the breadth of Digital Humanities
- Present their Digital Humanities research and work areas and receive feedback
- Gain an understanding of practical fields of application
- Develop ideas for project and graduation theses
- Exchange ideas with other Digital Humanists
The colloquium is supervised by the Digital Humanities professors. In addition to contributions from colloquium participants, guest lectures by domain experts are planned.
Optionally, two additional sessions are planned to provide assistance with the practical preparation of research exposés. Assessment takes the form of a presentation.
The seminar can be credited toward the Digital Humanities Certificate in the module DH 2 Methods of Digital Humanities. The seminar can also be credited as an ASQ module worth 5 ECTS credits.
DH 3: Practice of Digital Humanities
Course title: Digital Museum Thuringia: Practice-Oriented Solutions for the Digitization of Cultural Heritage
Type of course: Seminar
Time: Block seminar
- 13 April: 10:00–15:00
- 27 April: 10:00–15:00
- 01 June: 10:00–15:00
- 01 July: 16:00–20:00
Instructors: Prof. Dr. Sander Münster de, Sophie-Luisa Hopf, Clemens Beck
Location: In person
Assessment format: Written
Maximum number of participants: 20
Short description:
The block seminar is aimed at students in the humanities who are interested in developing and implementing practice-oriented solutions for the digitization of cultural heritage. Based on problems introduced by memory institutions such as museums, archives, or libraries, you will work on concrete projects that involve both technical and conceptual challenges.
A prerequisite for this is participation in the course “Digital Humanities Project Development” by Clemens Beck, held weekly on Fridays from 10:00 to 12:00. In this course, you will acquire important methodological skills for planning and implementing your projects efficiently. In close cooperation with memory institutions, you will develop innovative approaches to digitization and put them into practice.
The course is aimed at students of all disciplines. No special prerequisites are required. The seminar can be credited toward the Digital Humanities Certificate in the module Practice of Digital Humanities. The seminar can also be credited as an ASQ module worth 5 ECTS credits.
Students who wish to receive credit for the course must submit, as their final assignment, an exposé for a self-chosen research project of at least two pages.
Module: Practice of Digital Humanities
Course title: Fundamentals of Digital 3D Reconstruction / Workshop: 3D Technologies to Safeguard Cultural Heritage
Type of course: Seminar
Instructor: Prof. Dr. Sander Münster de
Time: Block seminar
- 16 June: 9:00–17:00
- 17 June: 9:00–17:00
- 18 June: 9:00–17:00
Location: In person
Assessment format: Assignment in the form of a 3D reconstruction and oral presentation of results
Maximum number of participants: 20
Link: https://www.gw.uni-jena.de/99968/workshop-3d-technologies-to-safeguard-cultural-heritage de
Short description:
How are digital 3D reconstructions created, and how can they be used for historical research and communication? This required elective seminar offers the opportunity to learn and practically test fundamental working techniques of 3D modeling in a research-oriented, interdisciplinary project seminar. In addition to historical 3D reconstruction, the seminar also covers 3D documentation and 3D printing of cultural heritage objects.
As part of the seminar, participants will reconstruct historical buildings in Jena as digital 3D models and integrate them into a browser-based 4D information system on Jena’s urban history. This information system is publicly accessible as a website via the city portal and can therefore serve, for example, as a reference for future applications.
Contents:
- Historical 3D working techniques
- 3D reconstruction
- 3D cultural heritage documentation
- 3D printing
- Modeling practice with Maxon Cinema 4D
The seminar can be credited toward the Digital Humanities Certificate in the module DH 3 Practice of Digital Humanities. The seminar can also be credited as an ASQ module worth 5 ECTS credits.
Students who wish to receive credit for the course must create a digital 3D reconstruction as their final assignment and present the results.
DH 4: Digital Humanities Project Development
Course title: Digital Humanities Project Development
Instructor: Clemens Beck
Type of course: Seminar
Time: Friday, 10:00–12:00
Location: In person
Assessment format: Written
Maximum number of participants: 20
Short description:
How can digital projects in memory institutions and humanities research be successfully planned, financed, and carried out? The seminar provides basic practical tools with the involvement of experts from professional practice and offers the opportunity to test these tools using a project example. Participants will acquire career-oriented skills that will enable them to independently coordinate digital projects in a later professional or research context.
This includes, for example, the development of project ideas, time and financial planning, project management, applying for funding to implement projects, and communication and public presentation.
Contents:
- Development and evaluation of project ideas
- Project time and financial planning
- Project management
- Funding opportunities and third-party funding acquisition
- Presentation and project communication
The course is aimed at students of all disciplines. No special prerequisites are required. The seminar can be credited toward the Digital Humanities Certificate in the module DH Project Development. The seminar can also be credited as an ASQ module worth 5 ECTS credits.
Students who wish to receive credit for the course must submit, as their final assignment, an exposé for a self-chosen research project of at least two pages.
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Winter Semester 2025/26
DH 1: Fundamentals of Applied Computer Science in the Humanities
Course title: Fundamentals of Applied Computer Science for Humanities Scholars
Type of course: Seminar
Instructors: Prof. Dr. Sander Münster de, Clemens Beck
Time: Friday, 10:00–12:00
Location: Hybrid (online and DH meeting room)
Assessment format: Written
Maximum number of participants: 20
Short description:
The seminar is intended to teach basic computer science skills relevant to Digital Humanities, with the aim of improving the ability of humanities students to communicate and collaborate in Digital Humanities projects. The focus is on questions of software engineering and software modeling, as well as basic knowledge of how databases and markup languages work and are applied, including XML/TEI.
The seminar can be credited toward the Digital Humanities Certificate in the module DH 1 Fundamentals of Applied Computer Science for Humanities Scholars. The seminar can also be credited as an ASQ module worth 5 ECTS credits.
Note:
To receive 5 ECTS credits, students must participate and complete an ungraded final assignment in the form of a design for a computer program to solve a humanities-related research question.
DH 2: Methods of Digital Humanities
Course title: Research Colloquium: Methods of Digital Humanities
Type of course: Colloquium
Instructor: Prof. Dr. Sander Münster de
Time: Friday, 12:00–14:00
Location: Hybrid (online and DH meeting room)
Assessment format: Presentation & exposé
Maximum number of participants: 20
Short description:
Digital Humanities is a young but already very broad field at the intersection of the humanities and computer science, involving much more than the digitization of humanities data. For example, in linguistics, literary studies, and history, methods from AI and language technology are used to model humanities research questions based on texts. Methods from image processing or geoinformatics also have various fields of application, for example in history and art history.
The colloquium is designed as a “rotating seminar,” in which, after a brief introduction, one research topic from Digital Humanities is discussed each week. Participants will gain an overview of Digital Humanities as a research field and will also learn which practical approaches and methodological perspectives computer scientists and humanities scholars use in Digital Humanities—and, above all, how they collaborate. The colloquium has no prerequisites and is explicitly aimed at both computer scientists and humanities scholars from various disciplines.
The research-oriented colloquium is aimed at advanced students and doctoral candidates who would like to:
- Become familiar with the breadth of Digital Humanities
- Present their Digital Humanities research and work areas and receive feedback
- Gain an understanding of practical fields of application
- Develop ideas for project and graduation theses
- Exchange ideas with other Digital Humanists
The colloquium is supervised by the Digital Humanities professors. In addition to contributions from colloquium participants, guest lectures by domain experts are planned.
Optionally, two additional sessions are planned to provide assistance with the practical preparation of research exposés. Assessment takes the form of a presentation.
The seminar can be credited toward the Digital Humanities Certificate in the module DH 2 Methods of Digital Humanities. The seminar can also be credited as an ASQ module worth 5 ECTS credits.
DH 3: Practice of Digital Humanities
Module: Practice of Digital HumanitiesCourse title: Applications of Digital Humanities
Type of course: Seminar
Time: Wednesday, 16:15–17:45
Instructor: Prof. Dr. Sander Münster de
Location: Jentower, 19th floor, R19S09
Assessment format: Written
Maximum number of participants: 20
Description:
The module teaches knowledge about the appropriate handling of digital objects and data, including the data life cycle, using application examples from various areas of Digital Humanities. These include text and language processing, digital 3D reconstruction, geographic information systems, image and network analysis, and empirical social science research. In addition to the overview of fields of application and technologies provided in the seminar, students will have the opportunity to test various applications. Three joint sessions with DHnet, the network of Digital Humanities actors in Jena, provide insights into practical applications and contacts with memory institutions.
After attending the course, students will have knowledge of central methods and application software in Digital Humanities. They will be able to assign these to various fields of application and evaluate them, enabling their targeted integration into their own research and practice.
Seminar schedule:
- 15 October: Introduction to and classification of Digital Humanities
- 22 October: Overview of Digital Humanities applications
- 29 October: Joint session with DHnet – National Research Data Infrastructures
- 12 November: Text analysis
- 19 November: 3D reconstruction
- 26 November: Joint session with DHnet – Network analysis
- 03 December: Geoinformation
- 10 December: Empirical social science methods
- 17 December: Image analysis
- 14 January: Research data and research data management
- 21 January: Joint session with DHnet – TBA
- 28 January: Open topic
- 04 February: Conclusion
The seminar can be credited toward the certificate program in the module Practice of Digital Humanities, DH 3, or as an ASQ module.
No prior knowledge is required to take the course.
To receive 5 ECTS credits, students must complete an ungraded assessment.
The assessment takes the form of a written research exposé of approximately 7–10 pages.
Module: Practice of Digital Humanities
Course title: Practical Seminar: Digital Learning and Teaching with Cultural Content: Tools, Concepts, Practice
Type of course: Block course
Dates:
- 24 October 2025, 15:15–16:45
- 2 March 2026, 9:30–16:00
- 3 March 2026, 9:30–16:00
- 4 March 2026, 9:30–16:00
Instructors: Prof. Dr. Sander Münster, de Dora Luisa Münster, Rebekka Dietz de
Location: Jentower, 19th floor, R19S09
Assessment format: Written
Maximum number of participants: 20
Short description:
In this practical seminar, you will acquire didactic and technical tools for developing digitally supported teaching materials on cultural-historical topics for school students. In addition to insights into current research and practical examples from primary and secondary education, the seminar offers the opportunity to become familiar with and try out the breadth of digital working techniques for researching, preparing, and presenting cultural-historical topics.
In preparation for creating your own teaching unit, you will learn:
Didactic foundations, such as assessing learners’ prerequisites and formulating suitable objectives and tasks
Basics of the European Digital Competence Framework, DigComp Framework 2.2, and methods for transforming analogue learning tasks through technical tools
Insights into digitally supported methods and tools for teaching and researching cultural-historical topics
Options for evaluating a teaching unit
Teaching units developed in the practical seminar may, if there is interest, be further tested with school students in the newly established Digital Humanities Education Lab in the summer semester of 2024.
The course takes place as a block course consisting of one individual session and two two-day sessions. The seminar can be credited toward the certificate program in the module Practice of Digital Humanities, DH 3, or as an ASQ module.
To receive 5 ECTS credits, students must complete an ungraded assessment. This includes completing the seminar assignments and submitting a written version of the teaching concept developed in the seminar.
Module: Practice of Digital Humanities
Course title: Hack the Heritage – Digital Skills and Creative Methods for the Hackathon on Cultural Heritage Projects
Type of course: Block course
Dates:
- Wednesday, 16:15–17:45 and
- 20 October 2025, 10:00–12:00
- 12 January 2026, 10:00–15:00
- 19 February 2026, 17:00–20:00
- 20 February 2026, 9:00–20:00
- 23 February 2026, 10:00–12:00
Instructors: Clemens Beck, Sophie-Luisa Hopf
Location: Jentower, 19th floor, R19S09
Assessment format: Written
Maximum number of participants: 20
Short description:
The seminar is aimed at students from all faculties. Basic knowledge of computer science is desirable but not required.
In this practice-oriented seminar, students develop software-based solutions for preserving Eastern Thuringia’s cultural heritage in interdisciplinary teams. They acquire methodological skills in design thinking and pitching, as well as subject-specific knowledge of digitization strategies, data standards, and open-source development.
The course consists of three block sessions, two preparatory workshops and one follow-up session, as well as the two-day HACK THE HERITAGE hackathon. During the preparatory sessions, the foundations of cultural heritage data, creative working methods, and prototype pitching are introduced so that participants can work effectively during the hackathon itself. The hackathon provides space to develop functional prototypes within a short period of time and present them to a jury. In the final block session, participants reflect on the hackathon and work on their written final documentation, which serves as the assessment.
The seminar can be credited toward the Digital Humanities Certificate in the module Practice of Digital Humanities or as an ASQ module.
To receive 5 ECTS credits, students must complete an ungraded final assignment in the form of written project documentation.
Important organizational note: All listed dates may still change; up-to-date information will be announced in good time.
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Summer Semester 2025
DH 2: Methods of Digital Humanities
Course title: Research Colloquium: Methods of Digital Humanities
Type of course: Colloquium
Instructors: Prof. Dr. Sander Münster de, Adjunct Prof. Dr. Robert Gramsch-Stehfest de
Time: Friday, 12:00–14:00
Location: Hybrid (online and DH meeting room)
Assessment format: Presentation & exposé
Maximum number of participants: 20
Short description:
Digital Humanities is a young but already very broad field at the intersection of the humanities and computer science, involving much more than the digitization of humanities data. For example, in linguistics, literary studies, and history, methods from AI and language technology are used to model humanities research questions based on texts. Methods from image processing or geoinformatics also have various fields of application, for example in history and art history.
The colloquium is designed as a “rotating seminar,” in which, after a brief introduction, one research topic from Digital Humanities is discussed each week. Participants will gain an overview of Digital Humanities as a research field and will also learn which practical approaches and methodological perspectives computer scientists and humanities scholars use in Digital Humanities—and, above all, how they collaborate. The colloquium has no prerequisites and is explicitly aimed at both computer scientists and humanities scholars from various disciplines.
The research-oriented colloquium is aimed at advanced students and doctoral candidates who would like to:
- Become familiar with the breadth of Digital Humanities
- Present their Digital Humanities research and work areas and receive feedback
- Gain an understanding of practical fields of application
- Develop ideas for project and graduation theses
- Exchange ideas with other Digital Humanists
The colloquium is supervised by the Digital Humanities professors. In addition to contributions from colloquium participants, guest lectures by domain experts are planned.
Optionally, two additional sessions are planned to provide assistance with the practical preparation of research exposés. Assessment takes the form of a presentation.
The seminar can be credited toward the Digital Humanities Certificate in the module DH 2 Methods of Digital Humanities. The seminar can also be credited as an ASQ module worth 5 ECTS credits.
DH 3: Practice of Digital Humanities
Course title: Machine Learning: AI-Supported Literary Analysis Using the Works of Tolkien and Their Media Adaptations as Examples
Type of course: Seminar
Time: Tuesday, 16:00–18:00
Instructor: Dr. Katrin Fritsche
Location: Online
Assessment format: Written
Maximum number of participants: 20
Short description:
Moodle self-study course with lessons that can be completed asynchronously.
This course is devoted to selected works by J.R.R. Tolkien and their media adaptations using AI-based text analysis methods.
The focus is on supervised and unsupervised machine learning.
The course begins with an introduction to digitally and AI-supported analysis of language and text before addressing the steps of text processing and preparation for subsequent AI-supported analysis.
Various methods of supervised and unsupervised machine learning are presented, explained, and applied using data from Tolkien’s books, The Lord of the Rings films, and Amazon’s series The Rings of Power.
The course can be completed fully independently and virtually via Moodle.
Participants work through various content-based lessons using, among other materials, infosheets, videos, and scripts for RStudio.
The respective analysis method is explained and carried out in detail in the scripts.
Participants can work through these scripts themselves in parallel.
Optional office hours: For additional support and clarification of questions, optional office hours are available as needed, during which questions and/or problems with implementation can be clarified.
The seminar can be credited toward the Digital Humanities Certificate in the module Practice of Digital Humanities.
The seminar can also be credited as an ASQ module.
This course can also be credited toward the newly developing AI-related certificate program of the THInKI joint project. It is therefore open to potential participants from the universities of Jena and Ilmenau, as well as beyond. To receive a certificate-recognized credit for the certificate program, the final assignment described below must be completed.
Since the THInKI certificate is currently being developed, interested students should contact katrin.fritsche@uni-jena.de directly to ensure that their participation is recorded and archived accordingly.
THInKI information website: https://virtueller-campus-thueringen.de/course/view.php?id=42External link
Students or interested participants from Ilmenau can contact mandy.maron@tu-ilmenau.de with further questions about the certificate.
Students or interested participants from Jena can contact oliver.mothes@uni-jena.de with further questions about the certificate.
To receive 5 ECTS credits, students must complete an ungraded final assignment.
The final assignment takes the form of an exposé.
In this exposé, students should present a self-chosen approach to researching digital text data.
This may be done on a theoretical and descriptive level or at the level of concrete practical implementation.
A connection to one’s own research or projects may be established.
Finally, there should be a reflection on and assessment of the potential feasibility of this approach in the chosen context.
DH 3: Practice of Digital Humanities
Course title: Digital Museum Thuringia: Practice-Oriented Solutions for the Digitization of Cultural Heritage
Type of course: Seminar
Time: Block seminar
- 14 April: 10:00–15:00
- 28 April: 10:00–15:00
- 2 June: 10:00–15:00
- 2 July: 16:00–20:00
Instructors: Prof. Dr. Sander Münster de, Sophie-Luisa Hopf, Clemens Beck
Location: In person
Assessment format: Written
Maximum number of participants: 20
Short description:
The block seminar is aimed at students in the humanities who are interested in developing and implementing practice-oriented solutions for the digitization of cultural heritage. Based on problems introduced by memory institutions such as museums, archives, or libraries, you will work on concrete projects that involve both technical and conceptual challenges.
A prerequisite for this is participation in the course “Digital Humanities Project Development” by Clemens Beck, held weekly on Fridays from 10:00 to 12:00. In this course, you will acquire important methodological skills for planning and implementing your projects efficiently. In close cooperation with memory institutions, you will develop innovative approaches to digitization and put them into practice.
The course is aimed at students of all disciplines. No special prerequisites are required. The seminar can be credited toward the Digital Humanities Certificate in the module Practice of Digital Humanities. The seminar can also be credited as an ASQ module worth 5 ECTS credits.
Students who wish to receive credit for the course must submit, as their final assignment, an exposé for a self-chosen research project of at least two pages.
DH 3: Practice of Digital Humanities
Course title: Database Modeling and Analysis in Historical Studies
Type of course: Seminar
Time: Wednesday, 12:00–14:00
Instructors: Clemens Beck, Max Grund de
Location: TBA
Assessment format: Written
Maximum number of participants: 20
Short description:
Accelerating digitization means that working with databases and evaluating them is becoming increasingly important in the humanities as well. As part of this exercise/advanced module seminar, we aim to teach history students data and database skills so that they are able to address historical research questions using the tools of the 21st century.
Key questions addressed in this context include: How can historical data be modeled and collected? How does one create and visualize databases? Which methods from digital history are necessary for interpreting the results and critically reflecting on them?
We will explore these and other questions in the exercise/advanced module seminar “Database Modeling and Analysis in Historical Studies.” To prepare you as well as possible for your future qualification theses, a particular focus will be placed on jointly modeling source information from sources and regesta. A willingness to become familiar with the FactGrid system, a database for historians, is required.
Literature:
Olaf Simons: “Keine Selbstverständlichkeit: Citizen Science auf der FactGrid Wikibase-Plattform,” in René Smolarski, Hendrikje Carius, Martin Prell, Citizen Science in den Geschichtswissenschaften, Göttingen, 2023, pp. 241–264.
Denny Vrandečić, Markus Krötzsch: “Wikidata: a free collaborative knowledgebase,” in Communications of the ACM, 57/10, 2014, pp. 78–85.
DH 3: Practice of Digital Humanities
Course title: Fundamentals of Digital 3D Reconstruction
Type of course: Seminar
Instructor: Prof. Dr. Sander Münster de
Time: Block seminar
- 16 June: 9:00–17:00
- 17 June: 9:00–17:00
- 18 June: 9:00–17:00
Location: In person
Assessment format: Assignment in the form of a 3D reconstruction and oral presentation of results
Maximum number of participants: 20
Short description:
How are digital 3D reconstructions created, and how can they be used for historical research and communication? This required elective seminar offers the opportunity to learn and practically test fundamental working techniques of 3D modeling in a research-oriented, interdisciplinary project seminar. In addition to historical 3D reconstruction, the seminar also covers 3D documentation and 3D printing of cultural heritage objects.
As part of the seminar, participants will reconstruct historical buildings in Jena as digital 3D models and integrate them into a browser-based 4D information system on Jena’s urban history. This information system is publicly accessible as a website via the city portal and can therefore serve, for example, as a reference for future applications.
Contents:
- Historical 3D working techniques
- 3D reconstruction
- 3D cultural heritage documentation
- 3D printing
- Modeling practice with Maxon Cinema 4D
The seminar can be credited toward the Digital Humanities Certificate in the module DH 3 Practice of Digital Humanities. The seminar can also be credited as an ASQ module worth 5 ECTS credits.
Students who wish to receive credit for the course must create a digital 3D reconstruction as their final assignment and present the results.
DH 4: Digital Humanities Project Development
Course title: Digital Humanities Project Development
Instructor: Clemens Beck
Type of course: Seminar
Time: Friday, 10:00–12:00
Location: In person
Assessment format: Written
Maximum number of participants: 20
Short description:
How can digital projects in memory institutions and humanities research be successfully planned, financed, and carried out? The seminar provides basic practical tools with the involvement of experts from professional practice and offers the opportunity to test these tools using a project example. Participants will acquire career-oriented skills that will enable them to independently coordinate digital projects in a later professional or research context.
This includes, for example, the development of project ideas, time and financial planning, project management, applying for funding to implement projects, and communication and public presentation.
Contents:
- Development and evaluation of project ideas
- Project time and financial planning
- Project management
- Funding opportunities and third-party funding acquisition
- Presentation and project communication
The course is aimed at students of all disciplines. No special prerequisites are required. The seminar can be credited toward the Digital Humanities Certificate in the module DH Project Development. The seminar can also be credited as an ASQ module worth 5 ECTS credits.
Students who wish to receive credit for the course must submit, as their final assignment, an exposé for a self-chosen research project of at least two pages.
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Winter Semester 2024/25
DH 1: Fundamentals of Applied Computer Science in the Humanities
Course title: Fundamentals of Applied Computer Science for Humanities Scholars
Type of course: Seminar
Instructors: Prof. Dr. Sander Münster de, Clemens Beck
Time: Friday, 10:00–12:00
Location: Hybrid (online and DH meeting room)
Assessment format: Written
Maximum number of participants: 20
Short description:
The seminar is intended to teach basic computer science skills relevant to Digital Humanities, with the aim of improving the ability of humanities students to communicate and collaborate in Digital Humanities projects. The focus is on questions of software engineering and software modeling, as well as basic knowledge of how databases and markup languages work and are applied, including XML/TEI.
The seminar can be credited toward the Digital Humanities Certificate in the module DH 1 Fundamentals of Applied Computer Science for Humanities Scholars. The seminar can also be credited as an ASQ module worth 5 ECTS credits.
Note:
To receive 5 ECTS credits, students must participate and complete an ungraded final assignment in the form of a design for a computer program to solve a humanities-related research question.
DH 2: Methods of Digital Humanities
Course title: Research Colloquium: Methods of Digital Humanities
Type of course: Colloquium
Instructor: Prof. Dr. Sander Münster de
Time: Friday, 12:00–14:00
Location: Hybrid (online and DH meeting room)
Assessment format: Presentation & exposé
Maximum number of participants: 20
Short description:
Digital Humanities is a young but already very broad field at the intersection of the humanities and computer science, involving much more than the digitization of humanities data. For example, in linguistics, literary studies, and history, methods from AI and language technology are used to model humanities research questions based on texts. Methods from image processing or geoinformatics also have various fields of application, for example in history and art history.
The colloquium is designed as a “rotating seminar,” in which, after a brief introduction, one research topic from Digital Humanities is discussed each week. Participants will gain an overview of Digital Humanities as a research field and will also learn which practical approaches and methodological perspectives computer scientists and humanities scholars use in Digital Humanities—and, above all, how they collaborate. The colloquium has no prerequisites and is explicitly aimed at both computer scientists and humanities scholars from various disciplines.
The research-oriented colloquium is aimed at advanced students and doctoral candidates who would like to:
- Become familiar with the breadth of Digital Humanities
- Present their Digital Humanities research and work areas and receive feedback
- Gain an understanding of practical fields of application
- Develop ideas for project and graduation theses
- Exchange ideas with other Digital Humanists
The colloquium is supervised by the Digital Humanities professors. In addition to contributions from colloquium participants, guest lectures by domain experts are planned.
Optionally, two additional sessions are planned to provide assistance with the practical preparation of research exposés. Assessment takes the form of a presentation.
The seminar can be credited toward the Digital Humanities Certificate in the module DH 2 Methods of Digital Humanities. The seminar can also be credited as an ASQ module worth 5 ECTS credits.
DH 3: Practice of Digital Humanities
Course title: Generative AI for Humanities Scholars
Type of course: Seminar
Time: Tuesday, 16:00–18:00
Instructor: Dr. Katrin Fritsche
Location: Online
Assessment format: Written
Maximum number of participants: 20
Short description:
Generative artificial intelligence, or AI for short, enables the automated creation of content and data, whether in the form of images, texts, or music, that is original and of human-like quality.
This seminar takes the form of a self-directed virtual learning course. It provides an introduction to the topic of generative AI, presents examples of use, explains AI tools and models, and shows how these can be used for students’ own projects.
The course is divided into one theoretical learning module and three practice-oriented microlearning components dedicated to music, text, and image in connection with generative AI. These learning modules can all be completed individually, and students may set different priorities in their work.
Participants do not need any prior knowledge of machine learning or programming, although optional code examples are provided and can be reused.
Optional office hours: For additional support and clarification of questions, optional synchronous office hours are available as needed, during which questions and/or problems with implementation can be clarified.
The seminar can be credited toward the Digital Humanities Certificate in the module Practice of Digital Humanities. The seminar can also be credited as an ASQ module.
To receive 5 ECTS credits, students must complete an ungraded final assignment.
Requirement for credit registration: The final assignment can be submitted in two formats.
Portfolio: Presentation of the use of one or more of the tools introduced in the course in the context of a humanities-related subject, such as one’s own research or project. The portfolio itself may be submitted in the form of presentation slides, short explanatory videos, or a written discussion describing the use of the technology for a specific purpose. Other innovative formats are also possible after brief prior consultation.
Exposé: Description of the potential application of one or more of the technologies for a specific purpose, such as one’s own research or project, as well as critical reflection on and assessment of the potential feasibility of this application in the chosen context.
This course offers the opportunity to develop an understanding of generative AI and to acquire practical skills that can be applied directly to humanities research and practice.
Module: Practice of Digital Humanities
Course title: Teaching History to School Students Digitally
Type of course: Block course
Dates:
- 18 & 19 November 2024, 9:00–17:00
- 17 & 18 February 2025, 9:00–17:00
Instructors: Prof. Dr. Sander Münster de, Dora Luisa Münster, Rebekka Dietz de
Location: Jentower, 19th floor, R19S09
Assessment format: Written
Maximum number of participants: 20
Short description:
In this practical seminar, you will acquire didactic and technical tools for developing digitally supported teaching materials on cultural-historical topics for school students. In addition to insights into current research and practical examples from primary and secondary education, the seminar offers the opportunity to become familiar with and try out the breadth of digital working techniques for researching, preparing, and presenting cultural-historical topics.
In preparation for creating your own teaching unit, you will learn:
- Didactic foundations, such as assessing learners’ prerequisites and formulating suitable objectives and tasks
- Basics of the European Digital Competence Framework, DigComp Framework 2.2, and methods for transforming analogue learning tasks through technical tools
- Insights into digitally supported methods and tools for teaching and researching cultural-historical topics
- Options for evaluating a teaching unit
Teaching units developed in the practical seminar may, if there is interest, be further tested with school students in the newly established Digital Humanities Education Lab in the summer semester of 2024.
The course takes place as a block course consisting of one individual session and two two-day sessions. The seminar can be credited toward the certificate program in the module Practice of Digital Humanities, DH 3, or as an ASQ module.
To receive 5 ECTS credits, students must complete an ungraded assessment. This includes completing the seminar assignments and submitting a written version of the teaching concept developed in the seminar.
Module: Practice of Digital Humanities
Course title: Database Modeling and Analysis in Historical Studies
Type of course: Seminar
Time: Thursday, 14:00–16:00
Instructors: Clemens Beck, Max Grund de
Location: Seminar room, Historical Institute, Fürstengraben 13
Assessment format: Written
Maximum number of participants: 20
Short description:
Accelerating digitization means that working with databases and evaluating them is becoming increasingly important in the humanities as well. As part of this exercise/advanced module seminar, we aim to teach history students data and database skills so that they are able to address historical research questions using the tools of the 21st century.
Key questions addressed in this context include: How can historical data be modeled and collected? How does one create and visualize databases? Which methods from digital history are necessary for interpreting the results and critically reflecting on them?
We will explore these and other questions in the exercise/advanced module seminar “Database Modeling and Analysis in Historical Studies.” To prepare you as well as possible for your future qualification theses, a particular focus will be placed on jointly modeling source information from sources and regesta. A willingness to become familiar with the FactGrid system, a database for historians, is required.
Literature:
Olaf Simons: “Keine Selbstverständlichkeit: Citizen Science auf der FactGrid Wikibase-Plattform,” in René Smolarski, Hendrikje Carius, Martin Prell, Citizen Science in den Geschichtswissenschaften, Göttingen, 2023, pp. 241–264.
Denny Vrandečić, Markus Krötzsch: “Wikidata: a free collaborative knowledgebase,” in Communications of the ACM, 57/10, 2014, pp. 78–85.
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Summer Semester 2024
DH 2: Methods of Digital HumanitiesColloquium: Research Colloquium: Methods of Digital Humanities
Lecturer: Prof. Dr Sander Münster de
Friday, 12 - 14 h I Hybrid (online and DH meeting room)
Examination form: Lecture & Exposé
Max participants: 20
Registration (Friedolin)External link
Short description:
The digital humanities are a young but already very broad field at the interface between the humanities and computer science, which involves much more than the digitisation of humanities data. For example, methods from AI and language technology are used in linguistics, literature and history to model humanities issues based on texts. However, methods from image processing or geoinformatics are also used in various fields of application, for example in history and the arts. The colloquium is designed as a "ring seminar" in which, after a short introduction, a research topic from the DH is discussed each week, so that the participants get an overview of the DH as a field of research and of course also learn about the practical approaches and methodological approaches used by computer scientists and humanities scholars in the DH and, above all, how they work together. The colloquium has no prerequisites and is explicitly aimed at both computer scientists and humanities scholars from various disciplines. The research-orientated colloquium is aimed at advanced students and doctoral candidates who
- want to get to know the range of the DH
- present their Digital Humanities fields of research and work and receive feedback on them
- want to get an idea of practical fields of application
- want to develop ideas for project and graduate work
- want to exchange ideas with other Digital Humanists.
The colloquium will be supervised by the Digital Humanities professors - in addition to contributions by the colloquium participants, guest lectures by domain experts are planned.
In addition, two optional sessions are planned with assistance for the practical preparation of research exposés. Proof will be provided in the form of a presentation.
The seminar can be credited as part of the Digital Humanities certificate in the DH 2 Methods of Digital Humanities module. The seminar can be credited as an ASQ module (5 ECTS credits).
DH 3: Practice of Digital HumanitiesSeminar: Generative AI for humanities scholars
Tuesday, 4 - 6 pm I Online
Lecturer: Dr Katrin Fritsche de
Exam form: Written
Max participants: 20
Registration (Friedolin)External link
Short Description:
Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI for short) enables the automated creation of content and data, be it in the form of images, text or music, that is original and of human-like quality.
This seminar takes place in the form of a self-directed virtual learning course and offers an introduction to the topic of Generative AI, shows examples of use and explanations of AI tools and models and how these can be used for your own projects. The course is divided into a theoretical learning module and three practical microlearning components dedicated to the areas of music, text and image in connection with generative AI. These learning modules can all be completed individually and can be focussed on different areas.
Participants do not need any prior knowledge in the field of machine learning or programming, but there is an option to work with code examples that can be reused.
Optional consultation hours: For additional support and clarification of questions, optional synchronous consultation hours are available if required, in which questions and/or problems with the implementation can be clarified.
The seminar can be credited as part of the Digital Humanities certificate in the DH Practice module. The seminar can be credited as an ASQ module. In order to receive 5 ECTS credits, an ungraded final assessment must be completed.
Prerequisite for the recognition of the achievement: The final achievement can be submitted in two formats. Portfolio: Presentation of the use of one or more of the tools presented in the context of a humanities subject, e.g. own research, own project, ... . The portfolio itself can be submitted in the form of presentation slides, short videos with explanations or a textual essay describing the use of the technology for a specific purpose (other innovative formats are also possible after prior brief consultation)
Exposé: Description of the potential application of one or more of the technologies for a specific purpose (e.g. own research, project, ...) as well as critical reflection and evaluation of the potential feasibility of this in the chosen context.
This course provides the opportunity to develop an understanding of generative AI and to acquire practical skills that are directly applicable to humanities research and practice.
DH 4: Digital Humanities Project Development
Seminar: Digital Humanities Project Development
Lecturer: Clemens Beck de
Friday, 10 am - 12 pm I Presence
Type of examination: Written
Max participants: 20
Registration (Friedolin)External link
Short description:
How can digital projects be successfully planned, financed and implemented in memory institutions and humanities research? With the involvement of practical experts, the seminar provides a basic toolkit and gives participants the opportunity to try it out on a project example. The seminar participants will thus acquire practical professional skills that will enable them to independently coordinate digital projects in their future professional or research activities. This includes, for example, the development of project ideas, time and financial planning, project management, applying for funding for implementation as well as communication and external presentation.
Contents:
- Development and review of project ideas
- Project time and financial planning
- Project management
- Funding opportunities and acquisition of third-party funding
- Presentation and project communication
The course is aimed at students from all disciplines. No special prerequisites are necessary. The seminar can be credited as part of the Digital Humanities certificate in the DH Practice module. The seminar can be credited as a module of the ASQ (5 ECTS credits).
Students who wish to receive credit for the course must prepare an exposé for a research project of their own choice (at least 2 pages).
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Winter semester 2020/21
Research Colloquium: Current Methods in the Digital Humanities
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Sander Münster, Jun.-Prof. Dr. Sina Zarrieß, apl. Prof. Dr. Robert Gramsch-Stehfest
Fri 12 - 2 pm | OnlineDigital Humanities is a young and nevertheless already very broad field at the interface of the humanities and computer science, dealing with a lot more than the digitization of data in the humanities. For example, in linguistics, literature and history, methods from AI and language technology are used to model humanities questions based on texts. Methods from image processing or geoinformatics also find various fields of application, for example, in the historical and art sciences. The colloquium is designed as a "ring seminar" where, after a short introduction, a research topic from the DH is discussed each week which provides the participants with an overview of the DH as a research field. It also equips participants with the practical and methodological approaches that computer scientists and humanities scholars use to work in the DH and especially to collaborate with each other. The colloquium has no prerequisites and explicitly addresses both computer scientists and humanities scholars from different disciplines.
The research-oriented colloquium is intended for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and post-doctoral fellows who:
- Are interested in learning about the breadth of DH,
- want to present their Digital Humanities research and work areas and receive feedback
- would like to get an idea of practical fields of application,
- wish to develop ideas for project and graduate work,
- want to exchange ideas with other Digital Humanists
The colloquium will be supervised by Digital Humanities professors - in addition to contributions from colloquium participants, guest lectures by domain experts are planned.
DETAILS AND REGISTRATION (FRIEDOLIN)External link
Seminar: Basics of Computer Science for Humanities Students
Dr. des. Dipl.-Inf. René Smolarski
Fr 10 - 12 Uhr | OnlineThe seminar aims at teaching basic computer science skills relevant for the Digital Humanities with the goal of increasing the communication and cooperation skills of students from the humanities in Digital Humanities projects. The seminar focuses on questions of software engineering and software modeling as well as on basic knowledge of the functionality and application of databases and elicitation languages (XML/TEI). The course is part of the certificate program "Digital Humanities" which is currently under construction and will take place on Fridays from 10:00 to 12:00 in a digital format. Registration via FriedolinExternal link is requested.
Seminar / Workshop:
Horizon Europe - Next EU Research and Innovation Framework Programme: Key Features and Participation Strategies
Dr. Selda Ulutas-Aydogan
We 10 - 14 Uhr | OnlineThe seminar aims to introduce the Horizon Europe Programme as the new EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation to be implemented between 2021-2027. The objective is to train and prepare participants to be fit for engaging Horizon Europe. Out of this Seminar the participants are expected to emerge with a draft Horizon Europe Action Plan tailored for their own needs and perspectives of research and innovation.
The seminar is dedicated to provide information to participants on key components and programmes of the Horizon Europe. Besides, it aims to train the participants on finding and analyzing specific funding opportunities (calls) published under Horizon Europe. The principles and guidelines for formulating project ideas, networking, partnering are introduced to equip the participants with necessary skills and approaches. Moreover, basics of developing/taking part in a consortium and preparing a proposal are taught in this seminar.
The seminar is built on 2 Modules. The first Module entails the informative part where the above mentioned aspects are introduced via cases and examples. The second Module entails one-to-one interaction separately (through online means) with researchers and research teams. This is to handle their specific needs and questions in a tailored way and help them to build their own Horizon Europe Action Plan. The officers from Service Center Research and Transfer of the University will also join to one-to-one meetings to be held in the second module to provide their support to researchers and their teams. Individual meetings with the participants/participant groups will be scheduled and organized separately each week following the completion of the first Module.
If this sounds interesting for you and your team; please visit and get registered via the FriedolinExternal link. I do attach the description of the seminar as well to this e-mail.
For any kind of inquiries these would appear about the seminar content and participation please contact with Dr. Selda Ulutas Aydogan (selda.ulutas@uni-jena.de), the instructor of this seminar.
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Summer semester 2020
Kolloquium
- Prof. Dr. Sander Münster
Digital Humanities
Fr 10 - 12 Uhr | Online
Exam date: ?
- Prof. Dr. Sander Münster