Welcome!
ENG 713-01: Digital Humanities
Professor Roopika Risam
Summer 2016
Theme: W.E.B. Du Bois and Digital Humanities
Welcome!
Welcome to the Canvas site for Professor Roopika Risam's ENG 713 course! This fully online course serves as an introduction to the field of digital humanities, a cutting-edge area of interdisciplinary study that uses computation and digital tools to interpret literature, history, and culture and uses the lenses we engage to study the humanities to understand digital objects and cultures. Digital humanities is my research area, so I am excited to be introducing you to it. You can learn more about me and my work on my webpage Links to an external site..
Navigating this Course
To navigate this course, please use the "Modules" link in the lefthand column of the screen. Each module corresponds with a week of our time together.
You can access the course syllabus here. Details of our weekly work together will be available in the module for each week.
Each Monday, you should begin with the welcome note in the module, which gives instructions for our work for the week. Generally, this work includes watching a short video, reading, experimenting with digital tools and methods, and posting to our discussion board. During the last week, you will be developing and implementing a (very) small-scale digital humanities project of your own. A description of assignments is available on the syllabus.
Digital Studies Graduate Certificate
This course is also one of the core courses of the Digital Studies graduate certificate, which I coordinate. The core courses are ENG 713 - Digital Humanities and ENG 830 - Digital Writing. While this course focuses on using digital research methods to interpret texts, Digital Writing emphasizes creativity and composition of digital texts like podcasts, videos, and webpages. Digital Writing will be offered online during Summer Session II. You can learn more about the Digital Studies graduate certificate here, and I am happy to discuss how it might fit in with your goals!
