DIGHUM-MIN - Digital Humanities (Minor)

The minor in Digital Humanities combines humanistic inquiry with digital methods and tools to generate new questions and foster innovative research. Students will develop critical skills applicable within and beyond an academic setting. The minor has three clusters: Spatial Humanities, Quantitative Textual Analysis, and Text Technologies. Students may choose to specialize in one of these areas.

• Spatial Humanities ranges from theory (space as a category of analysis) to technical representation/analysis of spatial distribution through algorithms. It can draw upon anthropology, geography, and other disciplines with a tradition of interest in space; meanwhile, it can feed into (for instance) literary studies.

• Quantitative Textual Analysis includes anything that uses computers to quantify formal properties of texts, ranging from word frequencies to chapter divisions to character networks. Genre, authorship, sentiment analysis, “opinion mining” -- all of these can play a role. It intersects with linguistics/NLP; Classics and Cognitive Psychology can also be allies.

• Text Technologies encompasses technologies of communication; social media analysis; database creation, coding, TEI; publishing and text access; digital curation of virtual exhibitions (which allows us to bring in the arts, digital imaging, etc.).