Welcome to the class website for DHM 280 – Introduction to Digital Humanities at West Chester University.
Be sure to check the class schedule frequently to keep track of weekly readings and assignments. In particular, remember to log in each week to write your post for the class blog. You should also read your classmates’ blog posts to keep informed about what they are learning!
You can also use this website to read about class policies, and other important information. Remember that your grades and other feedback will be returned via D2L.
You may download a printable version of the class syllabus, if you wish. However, you should know that the website version of our assignments, schedule, etc. may be more up to date than the printable version! If the website and printable version disagree, the website is correct.
Course Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course students will:
- Recognize some of the key methods and tools utilized by digital humanists, and understand how these methods and tools help digital humanists achieve scholarly and creative goals
- Summarize scholarly work in the digital humanities in a form appropriate for a general reader
- Apply some of the tools and methods of the digital humanities to a research, creative, or teaching project of their own design
- Compose a multimodal website to house the results of their own digital humanities project
- Assess the affordances of different digital tools and methods through the process of applying these methods and reflecting on this application
