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Courses - Fall 2026
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Journalism Department Site
JOUR689R
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News Coverage of Specialized Topics; Computational Text Analysis
Credits: 3
Grad Meth: Reg, Aud, S-F
Restriction: Permission of instructor (robwells@umd.edu)

This course introduces students to key skills and concepts in the digitahumanities and how they can be applied to content analysis. Students w ill 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.