DCI 103 - Digital Humanities: Social Justice Collections and Liberal Arts Curricula

Credits: 3

Prerequisite: instructor consent. Through a unique collaboration between ten peer colleges, this course uses college archives and collections, and curricular data, as a multi-campus corpus to be interrogated as a basis for historically and socially relevant digital research. Students will apply different lenses - history, language, culture, religion, solo/ensemble works of art, digital making to formulate and address a research question through digital means. By fostering the skills of digital collaboration, students grapple with formulating humanistic research questions (qualitative and quantitative) that can be addressed through digital approaches. The course opens with instruction on theoretical and methodological underpinnings - what is digital humanities and how is it done? The project-based nature of the work in the second half of the course promotes students’ abilities to think and work collaboratively, an asset for modern scholarship and future work. This course is taught fully online through both real-time (synchronous) and asynchronous delivery, with faculty of LACOL-affiliated colleges.