WRD 423 - DIGITAL HUMANITIES

College of Arts and Sciences

Credit(s): 3

While the humanities traditionally include literature, the arts, music, philosophy, and history, the digital humanities combines these traditional areas of humanistic inquiry to theories of computation, online archives, data mining, visualization, mapping, But how, why, and to what end? This course provides an overview of the Digital Humanities as an emerging area of interdisciplinary study relevant to scholarly and professional work. In this course, weâ€™ll explore key theories and concepts relevant to the Digital Humanities. As a class, we will explore through our conversations and digital projects how these ideas and new tools for composing can better situate our work within the digital age we live within.