Digital Humanities

This course explores Digital Humanities (DH), an interdisciplinary field which employs digital tools to explore and share humanities topics. Students learn about the role of DH in 21^st century research, scholarship, and public projects; carry out critiques of DH tools, projects, and exhibitions; demonstrate digital literacy through competency with digital tools for exhibitions and books, digital storytelling and mapping, social network analysis and visualizations, and text mining and topic modeling; contribute to a crowdsourced DH project; communicate and collaborate with classmates to create a public DH exhibition; and strategize, create, submit, and present a detailed plan for a DH project.