First Year Seminar in Digital Studies

3 credits · Undergraduate credit

This course is designed to introduce students to a wide variety of topics and issues in Digital Studies in a seminar format from a Humanities perspective. The First Year Seminar in Digital Studies (HU) will focus on engaging students in exploring, analyzing, and publishing the products of language, society, and culture in Digital Studies. These products may include digital media, literature, writing, and performance. Some topics may encompass digital art as well as digital platforms and social media. This course will help students not just to understand and use the digital but to see the digital as a cultural activity in its own right in an increasingly digitized world. The methods utilized in this course are analytical, critical, and speculative and will focus on the human condition as expressed through the networks, platforms, and digital media that influence modern life.