This course asks you to work independently and with others to help craft your own intellectual journey through the course and its materials. Individual work provides a critical foundation for learning, and without it you are unlikely to gain the knowledge or skills this course can teach you. Social and collaborative work are necessary foundations of the course, and you can’t succeed without them. Each week, we’ll ask you to work collaboratively. Collaborative work– thinking, talking, building, analyzing together– helps support and extend the work in class and serves as a foundation for the independent work the class expects of you. This course asks you to collaborate with your peers and to work with your professors in framing and supporting the work of the course.
Conferencing: 1:1 or Group
Learning is tough, and sometimes a class lecture or presentation is not enough. Sometimes a conference helps. In addition to the significant amount of office hours each week, this course will require you to conference regularly in order to demonstrate progress and get feedback. Many weeks have optional workshops and/or required conferences; these are important elements of the course’s instruction. Conferences require an appointment for credit; go to insert link here Randall to make an appointment.
Upon completing DHM 280, you will be able to:
- Use writing to convey information, persuade, and offer interpretations that combine analysis, exposition, and synthesis. This will be taught through instructional methods involving lectures and discussion, writing conferences and feedback, and informal responses. Assessment: Disciplinary Presentation, Project Reviews, Final Project. This SLO helps students meet Gen Ed goal 1 and 3.
- Think across and about disciplinary boundaries by investigating the differing ways that humanists use the same methodologies, and the differing kinds of disciplinary work conducted by scholars researching in the digital humanities. This will be taught through course readings, lectures, and discussions, as well as through beyond-the-class research. Assessment: Disciplinary Presentation, project reviews and proposals. This SLO helps students meet Gen Ed goal 4.
- Construct a framework for the history, aesthetics, and development of digital environments/culture as well as your own digital identity and the role each citizen plays in a 21st century digital environment. You will receive instruction in this through the course readings and hands-on research. Assessment: project reviews. This SLO helps students meet DHM program outcome 4.
- Recognize the transdisciplinary dimensions of digital research in the humanities. Assessment: Disciplinary presentation and project reviews. This SLO helps students meet DHM program outcome 3.
- Practice beginning skills of collaboration and participation in DH work. Assessment: contributions to in-person and online discussions, collaborative projects. This SLO helps students meet DHM program outcome 1.
Writing Instruction
This course has been approved as a general education writing emphasis course. This course provides writing instruction as one of its course goals, and you will write and think about writing throughout the term. This course uses a process approach to writing. You’ll write in a variety of formats—informally (on D2L) and formally (project). Formal assignments require a process of proposing, revising, drafting, revising, and polishing, before a final product is produced. I’ll require you to seek feedback from your peers at several steps, and give you feedback on at least one of these drafts for each formal assignment. Writing instruction will occur in brief class lessons, as well as conferences beyond the class.
