Digital Humanities Minor

The Minor in Digital Humanities is available to students interested in studying humanities subjects by integrating digital technologies and computational methods in a variety of disciplinary fields ranging from computer science to history, engineering to literature, media studies to library science. The minor is 18-19 units and trains students in skills such as digital encoding and editing, data visualization, digital archiving, digital mapping, network analysis, text-mining and natural language processing, the use of artificial intelligence and large language model technologies, and the use of immersive technologies (augmented/virtual reality).

Students in the minor will gain hands-on experience using cutting-edge tools and methodologies in the digital humanities to study materials such as texts, archives, artifacts, and art from a variety of historical periods. In doing so, they will examine critically what it means to think as a human in the era of digital machines and their processes. With a selection of courses drawn from a variety of departments and programs, students will learn a range of quantitative, qualitative, and cultural approaches to technology-based knowledge production and will learn to apply them to humanities content and humanistic forms of inquiry. Courses in the minor will provide the students with opportunities to engage in collaborative research and acquire technical skills in demand in the 21st century workplace.

The Minor complements many academic majors, and many of the courses offered within the program satisfy requirements or electives for other degree programs.

Students interested in declaring the Digital Humanities Minor can email Jonathan B. Martinez to schedule a virtual advisement appointment.

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