COURSES
DEAD MEDIA
This course “dug” into the dead ends of media history and examine the technologies that failed, died, or only existed as prototypes. Students will explore the rich scholarship and theory of media archaeology and experience the materiality of dead and obsolete media through hands-on projects and assignments.
DIGITAL HUMANITIES FOUNDATIONS
What if we could read thousands of novels at the same time? What interpretations might we discover? Scholars of the humanities have increasingly turned to such computing methods to pose new questions and unearth new answers to those questions. This burgeoning field, known as the “Digital Humanities,” provides tools for scholars and students to analyze, engage, and theorize history, culture, and text with methodologies derived from technology. Such tools promise electrifying vistas for humanistic inquiry, but what does this mean for the future of the humanities? How do digital methods relate to “analog” scholarship? How do we balance new tools with existing forms of analysis? By the end of the term, you will have developed an understanding of the field’s evolution.
