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Courses - Spring 2025
JOUR
Journalism Department Site
Open Seats as of
11/22/2024 at 10:30 PM
JOUR689R
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News Coverage of Specialized Topics; Computational Text Analysis
Credits: 3
Grad Meth: Reg, Aud
Restriction: Permission of instructor (robwells@umd.edu).

This course introduces students to key skills and concepts in the digital humanities and how they can be applied to content analysis. Students will learn how to gather textual data, process it and conduct computational textual analysis, sentiment analysis, narrative analysis, machine learning and topic modeling using the R programming language. Then, you will process your findings into various data visualization programs.