HIS 670 - DIGITAL HISTORY SEMINAR

College of Arts and Sciences

Credits: 3

The purpose of this course is to provide graduate students with a well rounded grounding in the theory, method and practice of digital history. Digital history is a subfield of the digital humanities which is the scholarly study of human artifacts using computational means. What distinguishes digital history from the digital humanities more broadly lies in its focus on change over time as well as its exclusive focus on primary sources. In terms of output, digital history takes many forms including; online presentation of secondary scholarship derived from both conventional and digital methods, the digitization, annotation and presentation of primary sources, pedagogical methods that engage with computational methods, and scholarship on the history of computing and digital culture. This course attempt to address each of these facets of digital history through readings, discussion and writing. Your final project is an attempt to integrate your acquired knowledge of these topics into either a historiographical exploration of digital methods, or a research project that employs one or more approaches to engage with analogue sources in ways.