How have forms and formulas for composing poetry like the sonnet been dictated by patterns? How does thinking of a poem as a sequence of words or combination of symbols detract from or enhance our understanding? How does an artificial intelligence read and replicate writing style without reference to the outside world? This introductory course offers an entry into reading and understanding poetry in the years 1500-1700 through pattern recognition, quantitative reasoning and natural language processing techniques, and would be equally suited for those interested in reevaluating literature from a new perspective and those seeking to learn to apply digital humanities skills, systemic thinking and quantitative methods to literary analysis.
4
UnitsOptional
Grading1, 2, 3
PasstimeNone
Level LimitLetters and science
CollegeDr. Coburn was great in lectures, and made the concepts seem simple to understand, but the ease of homework, examples and quiz questions left me improperly prepared for the midterm and final question styles. Very accesible, and office hours are helpful. Weekly homework and quizzes, a midterm and a final exam.
The professor is calm and cool. The exams are a bit hard and I would recommend studying with lots of practice problems weeks before exams. I found that the practice exams were not as helpful as the lecture examples.
honestly 120A was fine if you studied and showed up to class. it was hard but idk who expects it to be easy
All my friends said that he was the easy professor for 120A, but his practice tests were NOTHING like the actual exams. Lectures were boring and not useful. Fully made me lose the passion that I had for statistics. Ended up taking this class P/NP and dropped my stats minor. None of the content is interesting or applicable to the real world.
Test materials are different from lectures. He said he would not test the materials he had taught in the last several minutes, yet he still gave one.
Studied hours a week and still nearly failed. The student's effort doesn't pay off because the tests were not taught properly in the lectures either.