Do you teach a digital humanities course? Let us know by leaving a comment on this post. We’ll add it to the DH Syllabi page of the CUNY Digital Humanities Resource Guide, which is published on the wiki of the CUNY Academic Commons. I’ve embedded the DH Syllabi wiki page below.
DH Syllabi
Categories
A brief selection of DH-related syllabi.
To submit syllabi for this list, please use this form.
The Zotero group "Digital Humanities Education," launched by Lisa Spiro, is collaboratively building a library that "includes syllabi and curriculum planning documents, as well as articles about open education, networked pedagogies, and more." This will be an invaluable resource for the DH community, and much more comprehensive than what we offer here.
Keep an eye, too, on the Zotero Digital Humanities group's "syllabi" collections.
Spiro also presented an analysis of 134 DH syllabi at the DH 2011 conference.
Undergraduate
2008
- Sample, Mark. George Mason University, Fall 2008. ENGL 343: "Textual Media"; syllabus
2009
- Hirsch, Brett D. University of Victoria, Winter 2009. HUMA 250: "Digital Representation and Creation in a Humanities Context." course website
2010
- Davidson, Cathy. Duke University, Spring 2010, ISIS 120S-01/English 173S-05: "This is Your Brain on the Internet" syllabus
- Fitzpatrick, Kathleen. Pomona College, Spring 2010. Media Studies 168: "Writing Machines" syllabus
- Harris, Katherine D. San Jose State University, Fall 2010. English 190 Honors Colloquium: "Digital Literature: The Death of Print Culture?”; syllabus
- McClurken, Jeff. University of Mary Washington, Spring 2010. HIST4713C: "Adventures in Digital History" syllabus
- Schlitz, Stephanie. Bloomsburg University, Fall 2010. "Digital Humanities: Transforming Through Technology"; [link needed]
- Timney, Meagan. University of Victoria, Fall 2010. HUMA 150: "Tools, Techniques, and Culture of the Digital Humanities" (based on an earlier course developed by Brett D. Hirsch); course website; syllabus
2011
- Brown, Jim. Wayne State University, Winter 2011. English 5992: "New Media And The Futures Of Writing" syllabus
- Croxall, Brian. Emory University, Fall 2011. English 389, "Introduction to Digital Humanities" syllabus ; website
- Clement, Tanya. University of Texas at Austin. Fall 2011. INF 385t, "Introduction to the Digital Humanities" course site ; syllabus
- Davidson, Cathy. Spring 2011. English 90: "Industrial Origins of the Digital Age" course description
- Fyfe, Paul. Florida State University, Fall 2011. ENG 5933-03, Introduction to the Digital Humanities draft syllabus
- Owens, Trevor. American University, Spring 2011. HIST 377/677: "History in the Digital Age" syllabus
- Rieder, David M. and Brock, Kevin. North Carolina State University, Fall 2011. IP 295: "Introduction to Humanities Physical Computing" syllabus
- Theibault, John. Stockton College, Spring 2011. GAH 3223: "Introduction to Digital Humanities" syllabus
2012
- Cordell, Ryan. St. Norbert's College, January 2012. GENS 410: "Technologies of Text" draft syllabus
- Ullyot, Michael. University of Calgary, Winter 2012. ENGL 203, "Hamlet in the Humanities Lab" description
- See also Tanya Clement's list of digital humanities-inflected undergraduate programs, compiled from a discussion on Humanist.
- And the working document from the THATCamp 2010 session proposing a Digital Humanities 101 Curriculum.
- And take a look at Rebecca Davis of NITLE's interview with Bryn Mawr English major Jen Rajchel for an expression of the importance of DH in undergraduate education.
Graduate
2009
- King's College, London: Fall 2009, Spring 2010, 4AAV1003, "Introduction to Digital Humanities"; course information; syllabus; bibliography
2010
- Brier, Stephen and Gold, Matthew K. CUNY Graduate Center, Spring 2010. ITCP 70020: "Interactive Technology and the University"; syllabus
- Parry, Dave. University of Texas at Dallas, Spring 2010. EMAC 6361: "After/Print" course website
- Petrik, Paula. George Mason University, Spring 2010. HIST 697: "History & New Media" course website
- Smulyan, Susan. Brown University, Spring 2010. AMCV220: "Digital Scholarship" course website; syllabus
2011
- Rieder, David M. North Carolina State University: Fall 2011, ENG 798 / ENG 583, “Introduction to Humanities Physical Computing” syllabus
- Sinclair, Stéfan. McGill University: Fall 2011, LLCU-602: "Digital Humanities: New Approaches to Scholarship" syllabus
2012
- Brier, Steve and Gold, Matthew K., CUNY Graduate Center, Spring 2012. MALS 78100: "Digital Humanities in Research and Teaching" course site
- Presner, Todd. UCLA, Winter 2012. DH 201/Comp Lit 290 Graduate Seminar: "Introduction to Digital Humanities: Humanistic Knowledge, Disciplines, and Institutions in the 21st Century" syllabus
Professional Development
There is an emerging push for DH courses aimed at providing skills training for those who are already working in the field, or would like to join it. The skills that should be required of DHers, though, is a topic of some contention.
- See Julie Meloni's THATCamp proposal for a self-paced open-access DH curriculum for mid-career scholars.
- Lisa Spiro's post "Opening Up Digital Humanities Education" calls for an open, distributed certificate program in the Digital Humanities, and promises future discussion of a DH curriculum.
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Here are some samplings of literature and composition courses focused on the digital (most of these have a portfolio link with student projects):
An sophomore-level introduction to literary studies course: http://teachmix.com/performlit/
A first year seminar focused on digital composing: http://teachmix.com/emagination/
A first year seminar focused on entrepreneurial online writing: http://www.teachmix.com/ibranding/
A first year seminar called computers and English studies: http://www.teachmix.com/litcast/
A blast from the past (1994): http://teachmix.com/fycomp_1994/index.html
A collection of courses is at http://iamdananderson.net/courses
Thanks for putting this together.
In terms of professional development you might be interested in some of the courses listed on the digital preservation outreach and education calendar. I realize it is sort of outside the genre, but imho digital preservation is very much a key part of the digital humanities. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/education/courses/index.html
Thanks, Kevin and Michael. The page has been updated with your contributions.
I teach an introduction-to-DH course to first-year English majors called “Hamlet in the Humanities Lab”:
http://bit.ly/mDonw9
While we are still revising the details of the course, it is possible to see a current version of the syllabus for a class David Rieder and I are teaching in the fall: IP 295, “Introduction to Humanities Physical Computing”
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~dmrieder/IP_295_001_RIEDER.pdf
Rieder is also teaching a graduate version of the course in the fall: ENG 798 / ENG 583, “Introduction to Humanities Physical Computing” for which basic course information is available –
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~dmrieder/ENG798-583_RIEDER_IntroHumanitiesPhysicalComputing.pdf
Thank you, Jim and John! All of these courses are now in the list.
Hi, Matt. Thanks for putting this list together. Here’s a link to my “New Media and the Futures of Writing” course:
http://courses.jamesjbrownjr.net/5992_winter2011
Here’s the syllabus for the Intro to Digital Humanities course for undergraduates I taught in the spring:
http://wp.stockton.edu/gah3223spring2011/
You may already have these links to other Digital Humanities courses, but I don’t see them posted yet:
Stephanie Schlitz, Bloomsburg University an undergraduate honors course on digital humanities
http://stephanieschlitz.com/dh/
TJ Owens, American University, a joint undergrad/graduate student course in digital history
http://www.dighist.org/syllabus/