Academic Field: Humanities

Course Type: Upper-Undergraduate/Graduate Seminar 

Department: ENGLISH Language and Literature

Student Level: Undergraduate juniors, sophomores, and master’s students

Average Number of Students: 30-40 (expected)

Goals to Achieve Through WAVE(K-COIL)
-  develop communication skills to work with people in another culture 
-  get a chance to learn from and collaborate with professors and students located in another country to grow up both as students and scholars
- use digital technologies and platforms to enhance the level of education in the global setting
- More detailed class goals specific to the course theme can be found in the attached syllabus.	

Types of Activities Students Will Participate in:
This course requires the following assignments, each of which requires collaboration, critical thinking, and practice. The current course assignments are as follows:
❏	Attendance and Participation 20%
❏	Mini-assignments 10%
❏	Midterm collaborative project (due Week 9: 11/1) 20%
❏	Final collaborative project (presentation due 12/13 and report due 12/16) 40%

Collaborative Group Projects: 
Both the midterm and final projects are to be collaborative, and the initial prompts, which could be revised, are as follows:
❏	Midterm project (due Week 9: 11/1) 20%
Students will use one of the digital tools (Voyant, Gephi, or Tableau) to design a DH project about a literary work and a topic they want to explore in class. More detailed guidelines will be distributed later in class.
❏	Final collaborative project (presentation due 12/13 and report due 12/16) 40%
Students will develop the project they designed for the midterm assignment into a full presentation and report by conducting research and also by engaging with some generative AI tools available in various forms. After sharing their project outcomes in the class presentations, students will also submit a short statement reflecting on their learnings and the potential future use of their project. More detailed guidelines will be distributed later in class.

Preferred Semester and Duration:
This is my first year to try on WAVE, and if it works well, I hope to teach this course in this format every other year, spanning 14 weeks. Each unit focuses on different aspects of digital humanities.
Unit #1 History of Digital Humanities: New Forms of Reading
Unit #2 Data
Unit #3 Text Analysis and Data Visualization
Unit #4 Reading with (Generative) AI and Ethics 
Unit #5 Final Project Weeks
The current structure and content of each unit including the themes, readings, tools, and assignments could be revised if necessary.

Comments and Other Opinions for Potential Partner Universities and Professors:
I am excited to collaborate with a professor who shares interests in the digital humanities to innovate the humanities curriculum through the recent digital technologies, platforms and also the rapidly growing new forms of intelligence required for this new era of AI coexisting, or co-evolving with human intelligence. 
The way we co-teach this WAVE course is negotiable, and I am open to your suggestions. Ideally, my students in Seoul may team with your students, but it is also okay if only the professor participates by giving two hours of lectures in total and providing feedback on my students’ drafts, if that is counted as collaborative as well. Either way, I hope to collaborate with a professor who is also excited to collaborate and co-evolve with us! Looking forward to partnering with…you!