DIGITAL HISTORY.

Catalog description

This course offers a survey of how scholars can utilize digital tools and technologies to ask new questions and offer fresh insights within the discipline of history. Potential topics covered in the course include websites, blogs, social media, Public History, search engines and keyword searching, Wikipedia, open source and copyright, online digital databases, the digitization of archives, spatial history and digital mapping, podcasts, Big Data, virtual and augmented reality, video games, and artificial intelligence, among other subjects. Prerequisite: HIST 3300 Historical Methods.