79-775 Doing Digital History

12 units, Carnegie Mellon University

Digital history encompasses a wide variety of computationallyassisted historical scholarship methods, tools, and publications. As with the larger digital humanities community of practice, it is oftenbut not alwaysassociated with an ethos of collaborative, iterative, open, andor publicfacing scholarship. This course will introduce the rapidly evolving field of digital history with the practical goal of enabling students to incorporate digital history into both their current research agendas and their future teaching experiences. Students will learn how to use and critique digital methods assess and employ digital tools evaluate the merits and pitfalls of digitally publishing various forms of scholarship and generally navigate this digital research environment.

Prerequisites: none listed

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