Writing and reading, more and more, happen online. We use digital tools to communicate, share, respond to one another, and to make meaning. Humanities scholars are transforming the ways in which humanities-related work happens by using digital tools, technologies, and spaces for research, teaching, commenting, and publishing.
The Digital Humanities specialization provides a space for students to study, research, explore, and create in relation to digital tools, technologies, and spaces. The specialization provides a space for students to explore the ways in which digital technologies have changed our current intellectual, professional, and personal landscapes.
In the specialization, students read about, explore, research, analyze, argue about, and critique the ways in which digital tools, technologies, and spaces have transformed (and are continually transforming) the work in the humanities.
In the specialization, students also create, design, craft, mash, mix, and produce using digital tools, technologies, and spaces, and reflect on the ways in which such practices enhance, inform, or change our relationship to the humanities.
The overall goals of the specialization are to equip humanities students to:
- become more be thoughtful, critical, and reflective users of digital tools, technologies, and spaces;
- explore different digital tools, technologies, and spaces so that we can choose the best technology to facilitate our work and the situation in which we are working;
- create web pages, slideshows, digital movies, and other multimodal, multimedia work;
- practice writing and communicating (through and with text, graphics, sound, still, and moving images), revising, and editing using digital tools, technologies, and spaces; and
- understand that all technologies are complex, socially situated, and political tools through which humans act and make meaning
