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.

Course Objectives

At the end of the course, you should be able to:

  1. Discuss the use of digital technologies in the humanities;
  2. Describe the varieties of digital humanities;
  3. Explain the methods of digital humanities, including the tools used; and
  4. Undertake a digital humanities project.

Course Contents

The course covers the following topics:

Units and Modules

Course Requirements

You will be asked to do a selection of graded and non-graded activities.

Graded Activities

You can preview the non-graded activities here:

Non-graded activities

Technical requirements

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.

Recommended Study Schedule

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.

Course Materials