Digital Humanities: Critical Theory and Methods

Catalog description

Digital technologies are now intricately woven into our lives--whether it's in terms of authoring a paper in a text editor, sending texts and emails, or doing data analysis. Popular narratives of the 'big' and the 'new' celebrate and sometimes bemoan the ways that these tools shape our communication, access to information, habits and even our physical bodies. Focuses on the histories of these technologies, their operations, popular conceptions about such tools, and their affordances and limits for humanities scholarship. Students learn how to leverage digital technologies, but also how to critically read them. Broad ranging; in addition to surveying the 'big tent,' students are encouraged to utilize their final projects to engage with specific disciplinary digital tools and methods relevant to their scholarly work.