This site is a showcase for selected student work in the Digital Humanities courses in the Comparative Humanities Program. We are very pleased to share the high quality of work accomplished in our courses and showcase these final projects as displaying fulfillment of our courses’ learning objectives.
We would also like to acknowledge the significant help, support, and advice these DH projects received from our colleagues in Library and Information Technology: especially, Janine Glathar, GIS Specialist; Diane Jakacki, Digital Scholarship Coordinator; Carrie Pirmann, Social Sciences Research Librarian; and Param Bedi, Vice President for Library and Information Technology. Without their wise counsel and deep inspirational vision, the curricular implementation of digital scholarship would not be possible.
Comp Humns Learning Goals
- Understanding cultural norms as provisional positions in an historical process of change and conflict
- Comparing and evaluating differences in a non-hierarchical manner across boundaries of all kinds.
- Comparing in a meaningful way intellectual materials of different or opposing types (i.e. narrative with non-narrative texts, etc.).
- Appreciating the benefits, problems, and intellectual challenge of comparative study across historical, cultural, or generic boundaries.
- Demonstrating effective expository skills, both orally and in writing.
DH learning Goals
- Students will construct research questions and artifacts that demonstrate proficiency in interpretation, analysis, and evaluation of DH methodologies in their specific contexts.
- Students will exhibit facility with DH conventions regarding forms of composition and communication across academic disciplines and cultural situations.
- Students will demonstrate understanding of the collaborative aspects of DH production and demonstrate the ability to work both individually and in group settings.
- Students will examine cultural, social, ethical, or theoretical implications of DH tools and scholarly discourse.
- Students will be able to compose reflections that articulate superior understanding of the generative process involved in engagement with DH scholarship.