Minor

The minor in Digital Humanities combines humanistic inquiry with digital methods and tools to generate new questions and foster innovative interdisciplinary research bridging the humanities, arts, and technology. Students will develop critical thinking skills and digital competencies applicable within and beyond an academic setting. The minor has three clusters: Spatial Humanities, Quantitative Analysis, and Text Technologies. Students are encouraged to choose to specialize in one of these areas but may also choose from a broad array of courses to fit their special interests.

• Spatial Humanities ranges from theory (space as a category of analysis) to technical representation/analysis of spatial distribution through algorithms. It can draw upon anthropology, geography, and other disciplines with a tradition of interest in space; meanwhile, it can feed into (for instance) literary and historical studies.

• Quantitative Textual Analysis includes anything that uses computers to quantify formal properties of texts, ranging from word frequencies to chapter divisions to character networks. Genre, authorship, sentiment analysis, “opinion mining” -- all of these can play a role. It intersects with linguistics/Natural Language Processing (NLP) ; Classics and Cognitive Psychology can also be allies.

• Text Technologies encompasses technologies of communication; social media analysis; database creation, coding, TEI; publishing and text access; digital curation of virtual exhibitions (which allows us to bring in the arts, digital imaging, etc.), digital archive and manuscript studies, art and art practices involving digital mediations.