Welcome to HUM 40 - Tools and Methods in Digital Humanities! The practice of the humanities in the digital age requires knowledge and skills in the use of digital technologies to address humanistic questions. This is apparent in digital humanities projects, which reflect interdisciplinary approaches and multimedia formats. This course provides an overview of technologies, media, and computational methods that students need for digital humanities projects.
At the end of the course, you should be able to:
The course covers the following topics:
You will be asked to do a selection of graded and non-graded activities.
You can preview the non-graded activities here:
While efforts to make this course have been made to be accessible on mobile devices, you will need to use a desktop or of the examples presented in this course need to be viewed on a full-featured browser on a laptop or desktop computer, especially if they contain interactive or dynamic content.
If you wish to have offline copies of any of the course material, save them to your computer. You can save webpages as PDF.
The course site in MyPortal is organized by week and can be referred to when planning your study schedule. Every section has a list of the required readings and activities.