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NYU HIST GA.2033 Fall 2012

This course will explore the current and potential impact of digital media on the theory and practice of history. We will focus on how digital tools and resources are enabling new methods for analysis in traditional print scholarship and the possibilities for new forms of scholarship. For the former, we will explore tools for text analysis and visualization as well as work on interpreting new media forms as primary sources. For the latter, we will explore a range of production of new media history resources, including both practical work on project management and design. As part of this process we will read a range of works on designing, interpreting and understanding digital media. Beyond course readings we will also critically engage a range of digital tools and resources.

What does it mean to study history in the digital age? How have relationships among teachers, researchers, students, librarians, archivists, curators, and the general public changed because of digital technology? What does the impact of digital technology mean for the future of the past? To explore those questions, this course introduces students to some of the major themes and developments in doing history with digital media and technology. As such, it a blend of the theoretical and practical, so we will be discussing intellectual problems with doing digital history while learning practical skills and applications in a variety of settings. Topics include methodologies for research with digital tools, the impact of collaborative and social media on the practice of history, teaching and learning history with new media, and basic web site design and development.

Offered in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia for Spring 2010 This course will examine how information about the past has been (and is being) preserved. Historians rely on primary sources to inform and defend their arguments about the past, but digital technology is altering the form and the content of available records and, in the process, raising fundamental questions about the nature of historical analysis. Students will examine illuminated manuscripts, operate an early printing press, and geo-reference historical maps as they explore familiar and unfamiliar ways of recording information and reflect on how these formats affect the study of history.

The dramatic growth of the Digital Humanities (DH) over the past half dozen years has helped scholars re-imagine the very nature and forms of academic research and teaching across a range of scholarly disciplines, encompassing the arts, the interpretive social sciences, and traditional humanities subject areas. This course will explore the history of the digital humanities, focusing especially on the diverse pioneering projects and core texts that ground this innovative methodological and conceptual approach to scholarly inquiry and teaching. It will also emphasize ongoing debates in the digital humanities, such as the problem of defining the digital humanities, the question of whether DH has (or needs) theoretical grounding, controversies over new models of peer review for digital scholarship, issues related to collaborative work on digital projects, and the problematic questions surrounding research involving "big data." The course will also emphasize the ways in which DH has helped transform the nature of academic teaching and pedagogy in the contemporary university with its emphasis on collaborative, student-centered and digital learning environments and approaches.

African and African American Studies 108x, Harvard, Fall 2013