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

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This table lists examples of DH syllabi across different institutions:

### The United States

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Institution  | Course Code  | Title  | Year  | Term  | Author  | PDF  | DH themes  | Home  | Overview  | Schedule  | Misc

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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

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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.