Minor in Digital Humanities
For whom is the minor in Digital Humanities?
- Students majoring in traditional humanities fields like English, History, and Philosophy who also have an interest in learning how to build websites or code or use digital tools to supplement their scholarship.
- Students interested in doing graduate work in specialized Digital Humanities or Information Science or Media Studies programs.
- Students who want professional experience using online platforms to bring humanistic materials to wider audiences.
- Students majoring in software engineering or computer science who want to reflect on the aesthetics of their projects and the wider cultural contexts that frame their work.
- Students who wish to work alongside an exciting and growing group of 海角社区faculty to conceive and implement long-term digital projects. (To see some current projects, visit Projects.)
Featured Courses: Spring 2025
We publish a list of courses that count toward the minor in Digital Humanities every semester. Additional regular or special topics courses may be validated as electives for the minor by approval. Please email the current DHI Director for more information.
ANT 4620: Language, Culture, and Society
This course examines how individuals create and perform their social identities through and in response to language. As a final project, students will craft a Digital Story in stages to connect an aspect of their identities to a concept from the course.
ANT 4931: People and Cultures of South Asia
This course asks students to explore aspects of anthropological study in the region of South Asia. Digital Humanities methods are included in a final project where students are asked to create Digital Story to connect a topic or aspect about South Asia to a concept from class materials in narrative exposition.
ANT 4020: Humans, Animals and Culture
Are you fascinated by animal behavior, the human-animal bond, or how people came to domesticate many animals around the world? This course will explore interactions between humans and animals by using an anthropological perspective. We will examine how humans are entwined with other animals through social, economic and ideological systems. Students will research animal roles in different cultures over time. They will analyze and share their findings through digital story maps in ArcGIS.
COM 4561: Strategic Social Media
This course prepares students with industry-standard skills and techniques to utilize a variety of legacy and emerging social media platforms for organizational and strategic purposes. Exploring professional uses and trends of social media across a variety of platforms for organizational and strategic purposes. Exploring professional uses and trends of social media across a variety of industries, students examine the implementation and outcomes associated with the core pillars of social presence online, including Strategy (social listening, strategy v. campaigns, targeting audiences), Planning (digital content management, reputation & branding, and risk and crisis assessment), Implementation (engaging with consumers, social CRM), and Assessment (SMART goals, metric & analytics). This course is re-designed (2023) as a community-based transformational learning (CBTL) experience as a part of the 海角社区Community Scholars Program (CSP-Cohort 14) through the Office of Faculty Excellence (OFE). Students will apply their knowledge and skills in social media strategy through coursework collaboration with a Community Partner.
COM 4373: Consequences of Cyberculture
This semester, we will explore the Consequences of Cyberculture in an interactive, online learning experience, presenting an advanced, comprehensive, and critical examination of interpersonal, organizational, and social implications created by the internet. The internet and associated digital communication technologies have changed the way that humans around the globe interact and have created a dynamic cultural shift in human communication behavior. This course will explore how the social web and emerging communication technologies facilitate, influence, and affect globalization, human relationships, social interaction, civic engagement, social discourse, privacy, and ethics. The processes of relationship formation and maintenance, information dissemination, mobile communication, and the transmission of messages instantaneously, virally, and cross-culturally are also examined.
DIG 3930 ST: Digital Public Humanities
This course examines ways that scholars and cultural heritage institutions employ digital tools and methodologies to conduct work that reaches beyond academic spaces and involves diverse publics. Students will analyze a variety of digital public humanities projects, including several that are based at 海角社区and that involve 海角社区students as collaborators.
ENC 4930/5930: Advanced Topics in Technical Writing/Topics in Digital Humanities
This Topics in Digital Humanities course is designed around the ways in which we study and design interactive media, focusing especially on video games. In this course, students will learn foundational theory and research practices in game studies, practice rhetorical analysis of video games, create a research plan, complete their own user-observation research, create a simple interactive media project (no coding necessary), and begin developing a portfolio to showcase their professional work.
ENC 4436: Writing as Social Action
Writing as Social Action is a course designed to allow students to learn about professional communication, explore rhetoric, research local history and initiatives, and compose their own public writing to help local communities. Throughout this course, students will learn more about rhetoric and environmental communication, reflect on their relationship with environments and rhetoric, learn about local initiatives, create a public communication product (or equivalent), test their design, and develop a portfolio.
FIL 4379: Advanced Documentary Production
Students are expected to have taken Documentary Production in a fall semester or otherwise have permission from Dr. Jillian Smith. (If this course appeals to you, plan on taking the two-course sequence through fall and spring in the future—meeting days and times will remain the same). This class will lay the foundation for the art of documentary by understanding and practicing documentary style and technique. Practicing a range of documentary styles and narratives will open students to the creative possibilities of documentary film, and thorough technical competency will enable them to be realized.
FOT 3931 (FC): Latin American Digital Humanities
This course explores intersections between technology and culture in the study of Latin America today. We analyze digital projects based throughout the region that examine the conflicts, tensions, and transformations that have defined Latin America from 1492 to the present. The language of instruction is English.
LIT 4934: Writing Creatively and Critically in the Archives
This seminar will focus on creative and critical approaches to writing about, with, against, and around archival documents and objects. Part of the seminar will cover the basics of archival research and discovery: What are archives and special collections? How do archivists process collections so that researchers can access them? How do archivists think and write critically about their own methods? We will also consider how creative writers have used archival materials to create new forms, fill gaps in the historical record, or write against official documents.
SPN 2201: Spanish Intermediate II
SPN2201 advances intermediate-level language skills, emphasizing speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Students will develop multimodal literacy by annotating 3D objects and virtual reality environments.
SPN 3242: Spanish Conversation
This intermediate-level course focuses on enhancing conversational skills in Spanish through directed topics. Students will analyze texts in Spanish using digital text analysis to discuss vocabulary context and create multimodal digital stories using Scalar.
SPN 3300: Composition in Spanish
This course enhances students' writing abilities and comprehension of the complexities of the Spanish language. Through digital humanities tools (statistical analysis of texts), texts are adapted for people with reading difficulties using the Easy-to-Read criteria.
SPN 1134: Accelerated Beginning Spanish
In this online beginning Spanish course, you'll engage in real-time conversations with native coaches through LinguaMeeting, practice with AI language buddies, and build multimodal literacy by annotating 3D objects and creating virtual reality environments. You'll also develop vocabulary in Spanish through creating prompt crafting and turning language learning into an immersive, hands-on experience.
Past Semesters
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Fall 2024
ANT4620 Language, Culture, and Society
ANT4931 People and Cultures of South Asia
ANT4020 Humans, Animals and Culture
ENC3250 Professional Communications (Sindelar)
ENC4260 Applied Technical Communication
FIL4379 Advanced Documentary Production
FOT3931 (FC) Latin American Digital Humanities
SPN2201 Spanish Intermediate II
SPN3242 Spanish Conversation
SPN3300 Composition in Spanish
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Spring 2024
ANT4620 Language, Culture, and Society
ANT4931 People and Cultures of South Asia
ANT4020 Humans, Animals and Culture
ENC3250 Professional Communications (Sindelar)
ENC4260 Applied Technical Communication
FIL4379 Advanced Documentary Production
FOT3931 (FC) Latin American Digital Humanities
SPN2201 Spanish Intermediate II
SPN3242 Spanish Conversation
SPN3300 Composition in Spanish
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Fall 2023
COM4561 Strategic Social Media
COP2220 Introduction to Visual and Procedural Programming
COP3503 Programming II
DIG3176 Introduction to Digital Humanities
DIG4944 Digital Humanities Internship
FIL3363 Documentary Production
FIL4361 Documentary Podcasting
GIS3403 Introduction to GIS
GIS4048 Intermediate GIS
IDC2000 Beauty and Joy of Computing
MMC Understanding Emerging Media
SPN3300 Spanish Composition
SPW3471 Colonial/19th Century Latin American Literature
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Summer 2023
COP2220 Introduction to Visual and Procedural Programming
DIG4152 Digital Editing and Digital Archives
DIG4944 Digital Humanities Internship
FOT 3500 Peoples and Cultures of Spain
GIS 3403 Introduction to GIS
IDC 2000 Beauty and Joy of Computing
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Spring 2023
COM4373 Consequences of Cyberculture
COP2220 Introduction to Visual and Procedural Programming COP 3503 Introduction to OO Programming
DIG4944 Digital Humanities Internship
ENC4415 Rhetoric and the Digital Humanities
FIL4379 Advanced Documentary Production
GIS3403 Introduction to GIS
GIS4048 Intermediate GIS
IDC2000 Beauty and Joy of Computing
IDH2931 Aerial Surveillance and Mapping
SPN3000 Spanish Composition
SPN3510 Cultures of Spain
SPN3551 Communication for Heritage Speakers
SPW3030 Introduction to Literature in Spanish
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Fall 2022
AMH3571 Intro to Afr. American History
ANT4497 Ethnographic Methods
ART3830 Curatorial Practices
ART4935 Art and Feminism
COM4561 Strategic Social Media
COP2220 Programming I
COP3503 Programming II
DIG3176 Introduction to the Digital Humanities
DIG4944 Digital Humanities Internship
FIL3363 Documentary Production
FIL4361 Documentary Podcast
GIS3043 Introduction to GIS
GIS4048 Intermediate GIS
IDC2000 Beauty and Joy of Computing
SPW3409 Studies in Medieval and Golden Age Spanish Literature
SPW4194 Pirates in Hisp. Lit./Culture
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Summer 2022
COP2220 Programming I
DIG4944 Digital Humanities Internship
IDC2000 Beauty and Joy of Computing
GIS3043 Introduction to GIS
SPN39913 EXP:SPN Digital/Media Literacy
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Spring 2022
AMH4991 Blackness and Archives
COM4373 Consequences of Cyberculture
COP2220 Intro to Visual and Procedural Programming
COP3503 Introduction to OO Programming
ENC4436 Writing as Social Action
FIL4379 Advanced Documentary Production
GEO4990 Aerial Surveillance
GIS3043 Introduction to GIS
GIS4048 Intermediate GIS
IDC2000 Beauty and Joy of Computing
SPN3300 Spanish Composition
SPN3351 Communication for Heritage Speakers
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Fall 2021
AMH3571 Intro to Afr. American History
ANT4497 Ethnographic Methods
ART3930 Gallery Practices
COM4561 Strategic Social Media
COP2220 Programming I
COP3503 Programming II
DIG3176 Introduction to Digital Humanities
DIG4944 Digital Humanities Internship
FIL3363 Documentary Production
FIL4993 Documentary Podcast
GEO4990 Aerial Surveillance
GIS3043 Introduction to GIS
GIS4048 Intermediate GIS
IDC2000 Beauty and Joy of Computing
SPN3300 Spanish Composition
SPW3471 Colonial/19th Century Lat. Am.
SPW460 Don Quixote: Hero or Fool
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Spring 2021
COM3003 Principles of Communication Studies
COM4561 Strategic Social Media
DIG4944 Digital Humanities Internship
ENC4415 Rhetoric and the Digital Humanities
FIL4379 Advanced Documentary Production
GIS3043 Introduction to GIS
GIS4048 Intermediate GIS
IDC2000 Beauty and Joy of Computing
SPN3300 Spanish Composition
SPN3510 Cultures of Spain
SPW3030 Introduction to Literature in Spanish
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Fall 2020
ART3930 Gallery Practices
COM4561 Strategic Social Media
COP2220 Programming I
COP3503 Programming II
DIG3176 Introduction to the Digital Humanities
DIG4944 Digital Humanities Internship
FIL3363 Documentary Production
FIL4993 Documentary Podcast
GIS3043 Introduction to GIS
GIS4048 Intermediate GIS
IDC2000 Beauty and Joy of Computing
SPN3100 Spanish Literature from the Middle Ages to the 18th Century
SPN3524 Latin American Cultures
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Summer 2020
DIG4944 Digital Humanities Internship
DIG3152 Introduction to Electronic Textual Editing
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Spring 2020
COM3003 Principles of Communication Studies
COM4561 Strategic Social Media
DIG4944 Digital Humanities Internship
ENC4415 Rhetoric and the Digital Humanities
FIL4379 Advanced Documentary Production
GIS3043 Introduction to GIS
GIS4048 Intermediate GIS
IDC2000 Beauty and Joy of Computing
SPN3300 Spanish Composition
SPN3351 Comm for Heritage Speakers
SPW3498 Studies in Contemporary Latin American Literature
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Fall 2019
COM3003 Principles of Communication Studies
COM4561 Strategic Social Media
COP2010 Intro to Visual and Procedural Programming
COP2551 Introduction to OO Programming
DIG4944 Digital Humanities Internship
FIL3363 Documentary Production
GIS3043 Introduction to GIS
GIS4048 Intermediate GIS
IDC2000 Beauty and Joy of Computing
SPW3471 Colonial/19th C. Lat Am Lit
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Summer 2019
COP2551 Introduction to OO Programming
DIG4944 Digital Humanities Internship
GIS3043 Introduction to GIS
GEO4930 Spatial Dynamics of the Camino
SPN3860 Dig Textual Editing in Spanish
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Spring 2019
COP2010 Introduction to Visual and Procedural Programming
COP2551 Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming
DIG4944 Digital Humanities Internship
ENC4415 Rhetoric in the Digital Humanities
ENG3816 Digital Methods in Literary Studies
FIL4379 Advanced Documentary Production
GIS3043 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
GIS4048 Intermediate Geographic Information Systems
GEO4938 Spatial Analysis for International Studies (online)
IDC2000 Beauty and Joy of Computing
SPN3351 Communication and Communities for Heritage Speakers of Spanish
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Fall 2018
COM3003 Principles of Communication
COM4561 Strategic Social Media
COP2010 Introduction to Visual and Procedural Programming
COP2551 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
DIG4944 Digital Humanities Internship
ENC3375 Introduction to Fandom Studies
ENG3816 Digital Methods in Literary Studies
FIL3363 Documentary Production
GIS3043 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
GIS4048 Intermediate Geographic Information Systems
SPN3300 Spanish Composition
SPW3100 Spanish Literature to the 18th Century
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Summer 2018
COP2551 Introduction to OO Programming
GIS3043 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
DIG4944 Digital Humanities Internship
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Spring 2018
COM4930 Strategic Social Media
COP2010 Intro to Visual and Procedural Programming
COP2551 Intro to Object Oriented Programming
ENC4415 Rhetoric in the Digital Humanities
FIL4379 Advanced Documentary Production
GIS3043 Intro to Geographic Information Systems
GIS4048 Intermediate Geographic Information Systems
IDC2000 Beauty and Joy of Computing
DIG4944 Digital Humanities Internship
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Fall 2017
COP2010 Intro to Visual and Procedural Programming
COP2551 Intro to Object Oriented Programming
COM4930 Strategic Social Media
ENC3375 Fandom and Authorship
ENG3816 Digital Methods for Literary Study
ENC4930 Social Media and Online Activism
FIL3363 Documentary Production
GIS3043 Intro to Geographic Information Systems
GIS4048 Intermediate Geographic Information Systems
IDC2000 Beauty and Joy of Computing