SPA 410/MLL 410

Digital Literacy Through Cultural and Literary Topics in Spanish - Fall 2025

Schedule

11. Course Schedule

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Week and date	Topics	Technology used
PART I — Introduction to Digital Literacy and Life Writing
Week 1	Introduction to Digital Literacy and Life Writing (I)
Tu., Aug. 19 (1)	Presentation and goals of the course. What is Life Writing? What is DH? Discussion. For next class: 1. A paragraph on you. 2. Explore a DH project.	Brief intro to GitHub.
Th., Aug. 21 (2)	Explore digital projects (Guidelines provided). What techniques do DH projects use? Video: What is DH? Discussion of student examples. For next class: Analysis of a DH + Life Writing project.	More on GitHub (upload your presentations). Fast intro to Markup.
Week 2	Introduction to Digital Literacy and Life Writing (II)
Tu., Aug. 26 (3)	Discussion and analysis of DH projects. What is data in the Humanities? Case study: Video and discussion: Van Gogh’s Three Pairs of Shoes Explore Arts+Science. For next class: Read Leonor’s Memorias.	GitHub, GitHub Desktop, Markdown. Upload analysis to GitHub.
Th. Aug. 28 (4)	How to transform a biography into data? Introducing the first autobiographical text in Spanish: Leonor López de Córdoba. Exercise: Creating categories of analysis. Video: What is Data? For next class: 1 paragraph reflection on life writing and digital methods.	Collection Builder (Jekyll) Basics
Part II: Writing Lives in the Medieval Ages
Week 3
Tu., Sept 2 (5)	Leonor López de Córdoba (1) Historical context: late medieval Castile. The life of Leonor. What data can we find? Linguistic challenges. For next day: Watch Mujeres en la historia (50min.)	Upload reflection paragraph in GitHub (CB).
Th., Sept. 4 (6)	Leonor López de Córdoba (2) Close reading and discussion. Division of labor: Reported speech for Leonor’s story. For next class: prepare texts for Storymap.	Intro to Leaflet and spreadsheet data input.
Week 4
Tu., Sept. 9 (7)	Leonor López de Córdoba (3) Narrating Leonor’s life. In class work: Peer-review of Storymap texts and data. For next class: Read Luna’s biography selection.	Leaflet and spreadsheet data input.
Th., Sept. 11 (8)	Collection of women in the 15th century (1) Who was Álvaro de Luna (readings). Historical and cultural context Libro de las virtuosas e claras mugeres What is a corpus of texts? Formats. For next day: Reading and bring examples of “virtues” found in the readings.	Experiments with Jupyter Notebooks.
Week 5
Tu., Sept. 16 (9)	Collection of women in the 15th century (2) Linguistic challenges. Discussion of “virtues”. Text mining reading discussion. For next class: Read a selection of biographies: women’s virtues compared to men.	Experiments with Jupyter Notebooks.
Th., Sept. 18 (10)	Collection of women in the 15th century (3) Discussion: Virtues in women vs men. Guest: Elizabeth Cornick and her class. Room: Whitten Learning Center 184 For next class: prepare paper From Close to Distant Reading with Voyant and/or AntConc.	Experiments with Jupyter Notebooks: Distant reading and visualizing patterns.
Week 6
Tu., Sept. 23 (11)	Mujeres virtuosas (4) Discussion on your paper From Close to Distant Reading. Taller escritura. For next class: Finish paper.	Deliver Project 2 on Álvaro de Luna.
Part III: Colonial and Early Indigenous and Afro-Iberian Voices
Th., Sept. 25 (12)	Catalina de Erauso (1) Close reading of Vida y sucesos de la Monja Alférez. For next class: Read Catalina de Erauso, Vida y sucesos de la Monja Alférez (selection 2).	Leaflet and spreadsheet data input.
Week 7
Tu., Sept. 30 (13)	Guest speaker: Antonio Alvarez-Ossorio Alvariño, “Un duende en la Corte. Ascenso y caída de Fernando de Valenzuela. Cómo construir una biografía” For next class: Summary and reflection of Álvarez-Osorio’s talk.
Th., Oct. 2 (14)	Catalina de Erauso (2) Close reading of Vida y sucesos de la Monja Alférez. For next class: Read Catalina de Erauso, Vida y sucesos de la Monja Alférez (selection 3).	Leaflet and spreadsheet data input.
Week 8
Tu., Oct. 7 (15)	Catalina de Erauso (3) Digital storytelling of Vida y sucesos de la Monja Alférez. For next class: Read Catalina de Erauso, Vida y sucesos de la Monja Alférez (selection 4).	Leaflet and spreadsheet data input.
Th., Oct. 9 (16)	Catalina de Erauso (4) Digital storytelling of Vida y sucesos de la Monja Alférez.	Leaflet and spreadsheet data input.
Week 9
Tu., Oct. 14	FALL RECESS - NO CLASS
Th., Oct. 16 (17)	Guaman Poma (1) Historical context: the arrival of Spaniards in Perú. El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno (1615) Explore Digital facsimile Guest Speaker: Gimena del Rio Riande
Week 10
Tu., Oct. 21 (18)	Guaman Poma (2) Close reading and discussion of selected texts. Keywords and topics Game adaptation of Guaman Poma in Quechua, Spanish, and English For next class: bring images connected to keywords.	Topic modelling. Setup your space in Collection Builder to publish results.
Th., Oct. 23 (19)	Guaman Poma (3) Discussion of keywords and topics and illustrations. For next class: Read selection of Manzano’s Autobiografía.	Topic modelling. Annotation of images.
Week 11
Tu., Oct. 28 (20)	*Juan Francisco Manzano, Autobiografía de un esclavo* (1839) (1) Manzano’s context and life. A primary source: Ms. original Natural Language Processing VS Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Discussion: Prompting with AI. For next class:** bring potential questions to the text.	Install GPT4All Intro to RAG
Th., Oct. 30 (21)	*Juan Francisco Manzano, Autobiografía de un esclavo* (1839) (2) Exploring questions via GPT4All. Other 19th c. narratives of enslaved people. For next class:** Read Anzaldúa’s Borderlands: Chapter 1	GPT4All experiments
Part III: Contemporary voices
Week 12
Tu., Nov. 4 (22)	Gloria Anzaldua (1) Intro to Anzaldúa’s context, life and work. Close Reading of chapter 1 . Organization of groups and topics - How to put in place a collaborative project . For next class: Read Chapter 2.	Set up spreadsheets for StoryMaps with Leaflet.
Th., Nov. 6 (23)	Gloria Anzaldua (2) Discussion and Annotation of Chapter 2. Group 1 guides discussion for chapter 2. Groups 2 and 3 will prepare questions to assist Group 1 For next class: Read Chapter 3.	Input spreadsheets for StoryMaps with Leaflet.
Week 13
Tu., Nov. 11 (24)	Gloria Anzaldua (3) Discussion of Chapter 3. Group 2 will guide discussion for chapter 3. Groups 1 and 3 will prepare questions to assist Group 2 For next class: Read Chapter 5.	Input spreadsheets for StoryMaps with Leaflet
Th. Nov, 13 (25)	Gloria Anzaldua (4) Discussion of Chapter 5. Group 3 will guide discussion for chapter 5. Groups 1 and 2 will prepare questions to assist Group 3
For next class: work on the content of your projects.	Input spreadsheets for StoryMaps with Leaflet.
Week 14
Tu., Nov. 18 (26)	In class work of team projects	Troubleshooting
Th. Nov. 20 (27)	Pre-final project overview. Group evaluation of the class (last 20 minute of class)
Week 15 - Nov. 25 - 27 Thanksgiving
Week 16
Tu., Dec. 2 (28)	Last day or class: Presentation of final projects.
Tu., Dec. 9	Final projects due

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