Introduction to the Digital Humanities

MALS

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Introduction to the Digital Humanities

The dramatic growth of the Digital Humanities (DH) over the past half dozen years has helped scholars re-imagine the very nature and forms of academic research across a range of scholarly disciplines, encompassing the arts, the interpretive social sciences ans well as traditional humanities subject areas. DH ha sre-shaped the very boundaries and parameters of interdisciplinary scholarship, teaching and library practices in the twenty-first century academy. This initial core course will explore the history of the digital humanities, focusing especially on the diverse pioneering projects and core texts that catapulted to prominence this innovative methodological and conceptual approach to scholarly inquiry. The course will also emphasize the ways in which DH has helped transform the nature of academic teaching and pedagogy in the contemporary university with its emphasis on collaborative, student-centered and digital learning environments and approaches. Students will be introduces to important technical skills and tools - including metadata tagging and visualization, database, digital markup, and social networking software (including blogs and wikis) - that will help them undertake their own digital humanities work in subsequent courses in the program. The course will also take up broad social, legal and ethical questions and concerns surrounding digital media and contemporary culture, including privacy, intellectual property, and open/public access to knowledge and scholarship

Offer as needed

Graduate School Graduate

Yes

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