Digital Humanities

Program Director: Simon Appleford

The interdisciplinary minor in Digital Humanities explores the role and impact of digital technologies on our lives in the twenty-first century. Students will learn to evaluate, select, and use a wide-range of digital tools to communicate ideas and arguments to a variety of audiences and will become thoughtful and critical users of digital tools, technologies, and spaces. The minor is designed to be flexible to a student’s own interests and each student will have an opportunity to create full-scale digital projects on humanities and related topics that include history, literature, archaeology, communication studies, geospatial analysis, textual analysis, and more.

Digital Humanities Minor requirements: 18 credits*

Required courses:
HIS 316Introduction to Digital Humanities3
HIS 435Digital Cultures3
CSC 221Introduction to Programming3
HIS 497Directed Independent Research3
Two courses (six credits) of electives from the following:6
AMS/ANT/SOC 470
Making Maps that Matter: Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
CSC 222
Object-Oriented Programming
CSC 444
Human Computer Interaction
CSC 450
Data of/by/for the People
CSC 551
Web Programming
DSC 365
Introduction to Data Science
DSC 366
Machine Learning
ENG/COM 312
Mass Media and Modern Culture
ENG 315
Technical And Professional Writing
ENG 382
History and Future of the Book
ENG 439
Literacy And Technology: How Technology Shapes Cultural Literacy
GDE 324
Digital Foundations
GDE 382
Web Design
GDE 385
Computer Illustration
GDE 423
Interaction Design
GDE 425
3D Digital Design
HIS 317
Mapping History: Cartography from the Early Modern to Digital Age
HIS 483
History of Environmental Inequalities
JRM 327
Social Media
JRM 419
Online Storytelling
SOC 313
Power and Society: Political Sociology in Action
SOC 314
Statistics for the Social Sciences
Total Credits18
*

Kingfisher concentration requirements are 9 credits total, chosen from the list of courses in the associated minor. Unless otherwise specified.