Undergrad Research Training

Course Number: 82-198

These courses are designed to give eligible and interested students some hands-on research experience working on a faculty project or in a lab in ways that might stimulate and nurture the students' interest in doing more research. They are open to students who are Dietrich College, SHS or BHA majors, double majors and minors who will be second semester freshmen or sophomores during the semester they take the course.

SPRING 2026 Section A: Latin American Comics

This project involves research of Latin American comics. The course will teach the basics of Comic Book Markup Language (CBML, a TEI-based XML vocabulary) for encoding and analyzing the structural, textual, visual and bibliographic complexity of digitized comic books and related documents. Student researchers will assist in: a) editing, marking up and structuring digitized Latin American comics; b) reading and subjecting these texts to interpretation, making inferences and embarking in theoretical explorations of issues according to given criteria.

Long-term results of this project entail possible inclusion of encoded materials in the Latin American Comics Archive (LACA), an award-winning Digital Humanities project; collaboration with national and international students and researchers; and perhaps a published work (for which student participants would be acknowledged as contributors).

Open to one or more students with at least low-intermediate level reading skills in Spanish. Interested students should send an email to Felipe Gómez and include information about your interests in this project.

SPRING 2026 Section B: The Language of Pain

SPRING 2026 Section C: Redical Pedagogy Lab (Radlab)

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Units: VAR
Prerequisite(s): None