Interested in digital humanities? DMD announces new survey course.
DMD2610 - Introduction to Digital Humanities
Diverse in its interests, tools, approaches, and expressions, Digital Humanities (DH) is the application of digital technology and media to such subjects as art, art history, music, philosophy, history, literature, government, sociology, economics, anthropology, archaeology, and cultural and area studies. DH is also concerned with the study of digital cultures and how digital technology and media are constructed, used, and experienced in society. Finally, DH investigates and actively shapes the role of digital technology and media in the production and dissemination of knowledge—in the classroom, the academy, the library, the museum, and the public arena. DH is also a global community of practice, tied together by social media and values such as openness, collaboration, transdisciplinarity, and experimentation. Projects in DH range from democratizing access to cultural heritage, to building tools for scholarly research, to textual and spatial analysis, to experiments in scholarly communication.
DMD 2610 Introduction to Digital Humanities / DMD 5610 Digital Humanities Methods will provide a broad survey of the landscape of DH through the lens of ongoing work of faculty and staff researchers at the University of Connecticut. By exposing students to digital humanities as it is practiced not only in the Department of Digital Media and Design, but also in the English Department, the Philosophy Department, the History Department, LCL, the University Libraries, and elsewhere, the course will immerse DMD students in the transdisciplinary networks of international DH. Through faculty and staff lectures and weekly hands-on workshops, the course will provide students with both a range of potential paths into DH to follow and the practical tools to do so.
Open to students in all majors.
For more information, contact: Stacy Webb at stacy.webb@uconn.edu