This course will concentrate on training a critical eye on the field, and analyzing what impact the digital has on the study of the humanities and on the culture at large. Even as computational and digital capacities allow us to ask new questions, they also powerfully shape how we organize and receive knowledge. Courses in the Critical Digital Humanities will provide a necessary space to critically evaluate how the modes and content of information-age technologies influence and impact the modes and content of humanistic inquiry.

How do we use computers to do humanities work? What are the benefits and the limitations? How can we expand our critical thinking through the intersection of the Humanities and the Digital realms? Students in this course will examine these questions and learn how to use and experiment with a variety of digital methodologies for humanistic research (e.g. text mining, working with structured data, creating data visualizations and digital projects). A fundamental approach of this course will be to consider Digital Humanities through different yet complementary lenses of Decolonial studies, Black Feminist studies, Indigenous Studies, Cultural studies, and Environmental studies. Topics include learning how to productively critique, organize and manage digital storytelling projects, developing literacy with fundamental approaches to digital storytelling, and building technical competency with a variety of entry-level DH research methodologies and tools.

This course is different from 160-001, and there are no prerequisites for taking this course.

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