Methods and tools for reading culture at scale.

A practicum for African Digital Humanities researchers who want to build something real, not just survey the field. Every module opens with a project the instructor has actually shipped — a translation pipeline with 711,000+ machine translations across 250 African-language locales, a comparative-ethics database of 385 African folktales, a postcolonial-critique encyclopedia with schema-level design decisions, and more — read as evidence, warts and all. You will survey a real catalogue of 20+ existing African DH projects, choose or propose your own, and be guided from a scoped research question through data collection, infrastructure, analysis, and a public capstone showcase.

How does an AI assistant stop hallucinating and start knowing? This graduate course teaches the Model Context Protocol (MCP) — the open standard that connects language models to real tools and data — using CourseHub's own live MCP infrastructure as the case study and Remi as your laboratory. You will interrogate a frozen language model, call scholarly APIs by hand, probe retrieval (RAG), speak raw MCP over the wire, trace one question through seven infrastructure hops, compare four integration architectures on one research question, dissect the security and politics of tool curation, and design an MCP tool surface for a source from your own research.