Humanities and Fine Arts 191HFA49 - FYS- Tech/LanguageRevitalizatn

This course will focus on the role of technology in language revitalization, exploring both its benefits and downsides. We will discuss the importance of linguistic diversity and the socio-political factors that lead to language loss. We will also learn how communities are working to revitalize their languages through a variety of means, focusing particularly on the role of technology in language revitalization. The last portion of the class consists of a multi-week annotation project, which will introduce students to current methods in the digital humanities and allow them to contribute in a small way to an ongoing language revitalization project.

Open to first-year Humanities and Fine Arts Exploratory Track students and first-year HFA Majors.