Humanities scholars are normally trained in close reading of texts. But close reading, as a research practice, is solitary in nature and is based on subjective analysis. This skill-oriented course has been planned in the context of the recent widespread phenomenon of large digital libraries constituted by varied kinds of texts in several languages, and is specially designed to train students to make the best use of their core skills in close reading to address linguistic and literary problems based on objective analysis with the aid of computational tools. The PG Certificate course on Computational Humanities includes introductory modules on the core activities involved in three major disciplines namely language, literature, and computation. For practical assignments in each unit of this course students will be taught to use digital texts (in English / Hindi / Odia / Hindi / Sanskrit language) for data mining. The assignments have been included in theorder of the complexities involved as the course advances.

(i) To train students in computer-based methods to visualise and analyse information in the textual universe

(ii) To train students in creating digital objects / texts using computation; such digital artifacts are to be used for further research

By the end of the course, students are expected to develop skills in natural language processing, translation and language technology, skills that companies actually hire for.