Debates in the Digital Humanities: Multi-Disciplinary Theory and Practice

Digital humanities theory and criticism. Debates around nature of digital humanities, relationship to other disciplines and approaches. Multimodal modes of knowledge production in the digital era for humanists. Global DH, postcolonial DH, DH versus new media studies. Authoring and critiquing born digital projects and applications. Hands-on use of digital media hardware and software in combination with theoretical and critical readings for content analysis of text, images, audio, video and to create digital archives, databases, websites, environments, maps, apps, simulations, and games. Independent digital projects plus critical papers. Graduate focus on personal research applications.