Daily schedule

Deadlines to note:

• 📓 Lab notebook or other written assignment due
• 🔛 Sections meet separately: CLAS 199 in Fenwick 415

Introduction to course

Dates	Tuesday	Thursday	Notes
Jan 23, Jan 25	Introduction to course	Textual transmission, and code 📓

Modelling species and texts

Dates	Tuesday	Thursday	Notes
Jan 30, Feb 1	Using Julia in the REPL 📓	Working with collections of data
Feb 6, Feb 8	Workshop lab 1: rhetorical style at Gettysburg 📓	Modelling DNA sequences as texts	Tue: NB 1 due.

Classifying species and texts

Dates	Tuesday	Thursday	Notes
Feb 13, Feb 15	☃️❄️College closed for snow🌨☃️	Introduction to working with parallel sets of features
Feb 20, Feb 22	🔛 Zipf’s law	Introduce lab 3: (lab 2 due) 📓	Thu: NB 2 due.
Feb 27, Feb 29	🔛 Defining features	🔛 Tree models in textual criticism	Thu: Last class before spring break.
Mar 5, Mar 7	Spring break	Spring break

Modeling change through time

Dates	Tuesday	Thursday	Notes
Mar 12, Mar 14	Key ideas: normalization, comparison, alignment	Introduction to research projects	Tue: Class resumes. Thu: NB 3 due.

Developing a project proposal

Dates	Tuesday	Thursday	Notes
Mar 19, Mar 21	🔛 Work on project ideas	Workshop: Formal project proposals
Mar 26, Mar 28	🔛 📓 In-class workshop: lab 4	Easter break	Thu: Easter break. Tue: Project proposal due.

Investigating a research topic: interpreting change through time

Dates	Tuesday	Thursday	Notes
Apr 2, Apr 4	What is good scholarship?	🔛 Small-group work: developing a working project plan	Tue: Class resumes.
Apr 9, Apr 11	Workshop draft code; evening panel discussion	class	Thu: First draft of project code due.
Apr 16, Apr 18	How to present	class

Perspectives across sections

Dates	Tuesday	Thursday	Notes
Apr 23, Apr 25	Workshop projects in class	class	Wed: Deadline for rehearsal of oral presentation. Fri: NB 4 due.
Apr 30, May 2	Project fair, 1	Project fair, 2	Thu: Last class.
May 7, May 9	Study period	Exams begin	Tue: Complete project submission due.

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