Course website for Introduction to Digital Humanities, taught annually in the autumn semester at the University of Bern (Walter Benjamin Kolleg / Digital Humanities).
Co-taught by Tobias Hodel, Elena Spadini and Francesco Beretta.
🌐 https://dhbern.github.io/introduction-to-dh/
| Semester | Autumn Semester 2026 (HS 2026) |
| Time | Tuesdays, 10:15–12:00 |
| Room | Unitobler, Lerchenweg 36, F-112 |
| First / last session | 15 September 2026 / 15 December 2026 |
| Companion course | DH Lab (repo) |
| Course materials | ILIAS |
The course is compulsory for the MA Major and MA Minor in Digital Humanities and open to students from other programmes, in particular History, Near Eastern Studies and German Studies.
contents/
home.qmd course description, organisation, joint weekly programme
syllabus.qmd all 14 sessions with readings
sessions/NN.qmd one page per session
assignment.qmd assessment brief
resources.qmd tools, standards, reference works
blog.qmd student project sites
posts/ student contributions
about.qmd teaching team, licence, related sites
bibliography.bib all readings
Requires Quarto.
quarto preview # live preview
quarto render # build to _site/
npm install # dev tooling (prettier, husky, commitizen)
npm run format # format sourcesPushing to main triggers .github/workflows/quarto-publish.yml, which lints, renders,
optimises, checks for dead links and deploys to GitHub Pages.
Corrections and suggestions are welcome — open an issue or a pull request. See CONTRIBUTING.md and the Code of Conduct.
- Text and teaching materials: CC BY-SA 4.0
- Code: AGPL-3.0
Third-party material, readings in particular, remains under its own licence.