DIGHUM-MIN - Digital Humanities (Minor)
Program Overview
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.).
Free Form Requisites
Degree Requirements
Students must take a minimum of twenty units: at least one core course (4-5 units) and at least five other courses of at least three units each. Students complete twenty or more units in courses relevant to the major in departments across the university, including Anthropology, Art, Communications, Computer Science, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Engineering, English, French, History, Italian, Linguistics, Music, Philosophy, Religious Studies, and Theatre and Performance. These electives are to be determined in consultation with the advisor to the minor (a faculty member in English).
Not all courses are offered every year. For current information, see Explore Courses or contact the student services team.
Required Courses for the Minor
Course List | ||
UNITS | ||
|---|---|---|
Required Introductory Course | ||
Select one of the following: | 5 | |
Literary Text Mining (Quantitative Textual Analysis concentration) | ||
Please visit the Digital Humanities Minor website for a list of elective courses. | ||
Elective Courses | ||
Five courses in the chosen concentration | 15 | |
Total Units | 20 | |