Digital Humanities Syllabus

Digital humanities syllabus is a type of academic course outline/site that relates to the study of digital humanities. The DH syllabus course information sites are used by academic communities and DH practitioners. These sites play a vital role in supporting the DH scholarship and providing means for sharing key bibliographic content and academic knowledge.

Conceptually, the digital humanities is an interdisciplinary field that blends information studies with humanities discourse.^[1] The syllabus is an instructive "course road map / contract" that students ought to follow and fulfill throughout the duration of a course term. The DH syllabi can be found in institutional repositories, on dedicated course blogs, and DH academics' sites.

Increasingly, the DH syllabus content is available through open access institutional blogs and sites. Beside the instructional use, the DH syllabus course sites enable the DH community to promote and share useful educational materials and internet resources.

In higher education, the DH syllabus serves as a practical course guide for students to navigate institutional policies, course information, and learning resources.^[2] In academic community, the DH syllabus contributes to the advancement of the DH scholarship through online publishing of course outlines (open learning movement), sharing of bibliographic data, modeling of curricula, and mapping of central themes, theory and practice.

Digital Humanities Syllabi

This table lists examples of DH syllabi across different institutions:

The United States

Institution	Course Code	Title	Year	Term	Author	PDF	DH themes	Home	Overview	Schedule	Misc
MIT	CMS.633 / CMS.833	Digital Humanities	2015	spring	Dr. Kurt Fendt	PDF	data mining, data visualization, design process	Home	Overview	Schedule	No
Rutgers University	350:509	Literary Data: Some Approaches	2015	spring	Prof. Andrew Goldstone	PDF	literary data, history of DH, sociology of forms	Home	Overview	Schedule	Slides
The University of Arizona	ENGL596K	Methods and Materials of Literary Research: Introduction to DH Methods for Literary and Cultural Studies	2014	fall	Prof. Scott Selisker	PDF	archives, social network analysis	Home	Overview	Schedule	No
UC Santa Barbara	English 197	Hacking Literary Interpretation: Using Digital Methods to Read Literature (A Collaborative Project Seminar)	2015	spring	Prof. Alan Liu	No	text in the digital age, distant reading, social network analysis	Home	Overview	Schedule	Guides to DH
UC Santa Barbara	English 149	"Literature+" Experimenting With Digital Approaches to Understanding Literature	2014	fall	Prof. Alan Liu	No	close reading, distant reading, mapping literature, encoding literature	Home	Overview	Schedule	Guides to DH
UC Santa Barbara	English 236	Digital Humanities: Introduction to the Field	2014	fall	Prof. Alan Liu	No	the state of the field, text encoding, text analysis, digital visualization	Home	Overview	Schedule	Guides to DH
UC Santa Barbara	English 197	Close Reading and Distant Reading in Literary Studies	2014	winter	Prof. Alan Liu	No	text analysis, social network analysis, mapping and GIS	Home	Overview	Schedule	Guides to DH
UC Santa Barbara	English 113MI	Modern Literary Theory	2014	winter	Prof. Alan Liu	No	the formalist heritage, poststructuralism, cultural criticism	Home	Overview	Schedule	Guides to DH
UC Santa Barbara	English 25	Introduction to the Culture of Information	2007	spring	Prof. Alan Liu	No	information revolutions, information as work and power, identity	Home	Overview	Schedule	URLs
UC Santa Barbara	English 236	Landscape and the Social Imaginary: Romantic Landscape and Cyberspace	2007	winter	Prof. Alan Liu	No	romantic landscape, new forms of landscape	Home	Overview	Schedule	No
UC Santa Barbara	English 194	New Modes of Authorship: Creativity and Collaboration, 1800-2000	2006	spring	Prof. Alan Liu	No	authorship, collaboration, creativity	Home	Overview	Schedule	No
USF	LIT6934	Digital Humanities in the Age of Eversion	2017	spring	Prof. Steven Jones	No	cyberspace and its eversion, data analysis, digitization	Home	Overview	Schedule	No
George Mason University	HIST680	Introduction to Digital Humanities - online course	2015	fall	Dr. Stephen Robertson	No	digitization, databases, searches, humanities on the web, digital tools	Home	Overview	Schedule	No
MIT	21W.764J / CMS.609J / CMS.846	The Word Made Digital	2017	spring	Nick Montfort	No	creative computing on text, digital writing	Home	Overview	Schedule	No
MIT	21W.750	Experimental Writing	2016	fall	Nick Montfort	No	computer-generated books, serial digital texts	Home	Overview	Schedule	No
MIT	21W.765J / 21L.489J / CMS.845	Interactive Narrative	2017	spring	Nick Montfort	No	narrative and life, electronic literature	Home	Overview	Schedule	No
MIT	School for Poetic Computation	Code and Platform	2016	summer	Nick Montfort	No	exploratory programming, computing platforms, history	Home	Overview	Schedule	No
NC State University	IP295	Humanities Physical Computing	2011	fall	David M Rieder	PDF	Arduino prototyping platform, processing programming language	No	No	No	No
Syracuse University	ENG630	“Digital Humanities”: Emerging Debates in Literary Study	2012	spring	Chris Forster	PDF	digitization and cosequences, distant reading, Franco Moretti	Home	Overview	Schedule	GitHub syllabus
Emory University	English 389	Introduction to Digital Humanities	2011	fall	Dr. Brian Croxall	PDF	histories, mapping DH, reading on a networked device, reading in a network	Home	Overview	Schedule	No
Virginia Tech	ENGL 5074	Introduction to Digital Humanities	2015	fall	Quinn Warnick	No	theoretical foundations, comparative textual media, macroanalysis	Home	Overview	Schedule	Resources
Pratt Institute	INFO 657	Digital Humanities	2021	spring	Chris Alen Sula	PDF	traditional and digital humanities, higher education, digital preservation	Home	Overview	Schedule	No
Pratt Institute	INFO 658	Information Visualization	2021	spring	Chris Alen Sula	PDF	cognition and visual perception, aesthetics of visual media, visualization	Home	Overview	Schedule	No
Pratt Institute	INFO 659	Advanced Projects in Digital Humanities	2020	fall	Chris Alen Sula	PDF	digital humanities, project management	Home	Overview	Schedule	No
LMC Georgia Tech	LMC 3206	Studies in Communication and Culture: Data	2013	spring	Professor Lauren Klein	PDF	what is data?, visualizing data, the future of data	Home	Overview	Schedule	Tools
LMC Georgia Tech	LMC 3314/8803	Technologies of Representation: Media, Materiality, and Archives	2016	spring	Professor Lauren Klein	PDF	archives, media, digital materiality	Home	Overview	Schedule	No
LMC Georgia Tech	LMC 2000	Introduction to Literature, Media, and Communication	2015	fall	Professor Lauren Klein	PDF	textual analysis methods, classical period, eighteenth century, the contemporary	Home	Overview	Schedule	No
SJSU School of Information	LIBR220-03 / LIBR220-12	Introduction to Digital Humanities	2012	fall	Dr. Katherine D. Harris	No	libraries in the digital age, open access, digital literacy, preservation	Home	Overview	Schedule	No
SJSU School of Information	English 190	Digital Literature: The Death of Print Culture?	2010	fall	Dr. Katherine D. Harris	No	print culture, e-books, digital literature, gaming & adaptation	Home	Overview	Schedule	Reference/ Readings

References

↑ Senchyne, Jonathan (2016). "Between Knowledge and Metaknowledge: Shifting Disciplinary Borders in Digital Humanities and Library and Information Studies". In Gold, Matthew K.; Klein, Lauren F.. Debates in the Digital Humanities. University of Minnesota Press. http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/debates/text/81.
↑ Selisker, Scott (2016). "Digital Humanities Knowledge: Reflections on the Introductory Graduate Syllabus". In Gold, Matthew K.; Klein, Lauren F.. Debates in the Digital Humanities. University of Minnesota Press. http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/debates/text/68.

[1] Senchyne, Jonathan (2016). "Between Knowledge and Metaknowledge: Shifting Disciplinary Borders in Digital Humanities and Library and Information Studies". In Gold, Matthew K.; Klein, Lauren F.. Debates in the Digital Humanities. University of Minnesota Press. http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/debates/text/81.

[2] Selisker, Scott (2016). "Digital Humanities Knowledge: Reflections on the Introductory Graduate Syllabus". In Gold, Matthew K.; Klein, Lauren F.. Debates in the Digital Humanities. University of Minnesota Press. http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/debates/text/68.

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