Digital Art History and Cultural Heritage

4 credits · Undergraduate

This seminar investigates foundational principles of digital humanities though art history, cultural heritage and material preservation, with a particular focus on emerging threats to historic sites and objects. We will explore and engage with innovative technologies utilized to confront a variety of global challenges and provide ‘hands-on’ practical experience in laser scanning, photogrammetry, and digital mapping and much more. The seminar is thus a “journey” of sorts, a dialogue with technology, art, materiality and historicities in an attempt to fully engage with cultural heritage issues through a twenty-first century lens. At the end of the semester, we will create an online portfolio/course website which showcases our work.