Enrollment in DIGH 400 is the prerequisite for DIGH 401, 402, 500, 595. An introduction to the digital humanities, work in a variety of humanities disciplines--literature, art, philosophy, theology, and history--that involves computer assistance in conducting or presenting research. This includes, for example, digitizing, markup, editing, publishing, archiving, analyzing, visualization, modeling, interpretive gaming, and instructional and interface design. This course will emphasize research questions and methods from a range of humanities disciplines--not computer technology per se but ways that computing can further humanities research agendas.

Primarily for DH students, the course combines historical study with a hands-on approach to computers their growing role in academic research, publishing, libraries, and the arts. Topics will include the structure of computers, the relation of hardware and software, text and image markup and publishing, database theory and design, modeling and visualization, text analytics, procedural logic, and the basic concepts of programming, artificial intelligence, and the social, ethical, and intellectual contexts for computing.

Introduces students to design and human computer interaction.

This course studies the concepts, methods, and tools used in the analysis, design, implementation, testing, and deployment of typical multi-tier web applications.

Special topics in Digital Humanities or new approaches of current interest to the instructor.

Students work under the direction of a faculty member on a particular area of interest within Digital Humanities.

This course invites students to learn about and engage in collaborative project-building. Students will contribute to building an active faculty-led digital humanities research project. Work will be informed by weekly readings and seminar-style discussions. Possible work may include coding, data modeling, digitization, proposal-writing, grant-writing, project management, design, and research.

In this capstone, students will apply skills they've learned throughout the program, and develop new technological and research skills as the project demands. Students will develop their own digital humanities research project that demonstrates their competency in a facet of digital humanities and expertise within their chosen subject area.

Students register for this course to maintain active enrollment in the Graduate School during the fall or spring semesters if they are not registered for any graduate class at the master's level while finishing up any MA requirements, such as their field examinations and research project.