Welcome to HIST 501D - DIGITAL HISTORY!

The course will offer a collaborative workshop setting to advance practical and theoretical approaches to Digital History. Digital History is an approach to examining and representing the past that makes extensive use of computational technologies for research, analysis, interpretation, composition, and communication. All history projects are now digital, although some more than others, and some taking a more self-critical and self-aware approach.

Students will be introduced to the ways in which digital technologies have altered, and are altering, the historical profession, while also showing the value of taking a critical approach to digital methods. Students will also gain practical, hands-on knowledge of certain digital technologies and methods, doing so, as much as possible, in a collaborative classroom setting.