Digital History

3 ch (3C/S) (W) (EL) · Undergraduate

Digital history, the use of emerging technologies to the study of history, is an exciting new historical methodology. In this course, we analyze digital history literature while using digital methodologies to collect, evaluate, and produce historical knowledge. Students will get hands-on experience with a wide range of digital skills and use these new methods to develop a final digital history project. This course will introduce students to historical geographic information systems (HGIS), quantitative database analysis using structured query language (SQL queries), and text mining. We will also examine the implications of digital storage and digitization in archives which is changing how we research, preserve, and access historical material.