HST 140 - History Done Digitally

Course Units: 1

What do you think of when you hear “Humanities”? If you ask someone who works in the humanities what they study, you may hear a hundred different answers: great authors like Chaucer, established historians such as Geoffrey of Monmouth, fantastic works of art such as Myron’s Discobolus. You seldom will hear “Data.” But that is exactly what all of these great works of literature, history, and art are. Once we make that recognition, a new world opens up. In the modern world, countless tools have been developed to facilitate the access, analysis, and dissemination of data. In this course, we will learn how to use computing technologies (e.g. Voyant Tools, OpenRefine, ArcGIS StoryMaps etc.) to both ask questions that are traditional to the humanities and come up with new questions enabled by the use of these technologies, as well as how technology can make our findings more accessible and understandable. Cross-Listed: CLS-193 CC: HUM, QMR, SOCS, GDQR