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 470
Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
ANT 570
Making Maps that Matter: Introduction to GIS
CSC 222
Object-Oriented Programming
CSC 444
Human Computer Interaction
CSC 450
Data of/by/for the People
CSC 551
Web Programming
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
MTH 365
Introduction to Data Science
MTH 366
Machine Learning
SOC 313
Power and Society: Political Sociology in Action
SOC 314
Statistics for the Social Sciences
Total Credits18