History 292 - Doing Digital History

Digital history is a growing field of historical scholarship that uses computational and quantitative methods to make the past more accessible and comprehensible to a broad public. It focuses on the use of digital media and tools to engage with a variety of audiences about the past. Students will develop skills in digital history capacities such as corpus linguistics, mapping, network analysis, text mining, digital archives, and topic modelling. Using these tools, students will collaborate to create meaningful, interpretive works of history. Enrollment limited to 18.