How does digital humanities fit into the undergraduate curriculum? This workshop will look at digital humanities from an institutional perspective, considering how it advances the learning outcomes of undergraduate education and sharing models of high impact practices from the digital humanities classroom.
3. DH and Liberal Education!
Alexander & Davis. “Should
Liberal Arts Campuses Do
Digital Humanities?
Process and Products in
the Small College World.”
In Debates in the Digital
Humanities, ed. Matthew K.
Gold. Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota
Press, 2012.!
4. NITLE Survey of Digital Humanities
at Liberal Arts Colleges!
• AY 2012-2013: survey & interviews!
• Current results!
– 32 institutions!
– 50 responses!
• Questions!
– Activities!
– Support!
– curriculum!
faculty
library
administrator
IT
museum
5. Curricular Structure!
• Of 32 institutions surveyed: !
– 1 has a major, minor, or program!
– 4 have a digital humanities course, e.g.,
Introduction to Digital Humanities!
– 23 have courses with some Digital
Humanities!
11. Lexomics, Wheaton College!
• Computer science,
statistics & Old
English texts!
• Connections!
• English-Computer
Science TeamTeaching!
– Computing for Poets
(Comp 131)!
– Connection
(Computing and Texts)!
12. Citizens for a Globally
Networked World!
• Digital Literacies!
• Multiliteracies (New
London Group)!
• Digital skills and
practices!
13. Situating the Global Environment!
• Lewis & Clark College!
• https://sge.lclark.edu/ !
• Jim Proctor,
“Situated Social Learning”!
• Interdisciplinary
environmental research!
• Situated research!
– Local focus on global issues!
14. Social learning!
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Document research process!
Share research resources!
Share references !
Aggregate projects on blog!
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Maps!
Tags!
Concept maps!
Mashups!
Place-‐based,
Collabora/on,
Praxis,
Community,
Fieldwork,
Mul/modal,
Composi/on,
Storytelling
16. Liberal Education:
Essential Learning Outcomes!
• Intellectual and practical skills, like
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Inquiry and analysis!
Critical and creative thinking!
Written and oral communication!
Quantitative literacy!
Information literacy!
Teamwork and problem solving!
• Knowledge of human cultures and the physical and
natural world; !
• personal and social responsibility, including civic
knowledge and engagement both locally and globally; !
• integrative and applied learning. !
17. High
Impact
Prac.ces
(Kuh)
• First-‐Year
Seminars
and
Experiences
• Common
Intellectual
Experience
• Learning
CommuniAes
• WriAng-‐Intensive
Courses
• CollaboraAve
Assignments
and
Projects
• Undergraduate
Research
• Diversity/Global
Learning
• Service
Learning,
Community-‐Based
Learning
• Internships
• Capstone
Courses
and
Projects
18. Digital Humanities as
Liberal Arts Mission!
• Undergraduate research !
• Pedagogy!
– active & collaborative learning!
– project based & applied learning !
• Preparing citizens in a networked world !
• Interdisciplinary work & integrative
learning!
• Civic engagement & place-based learning!
19. Undergraduate Research!
• Student-faculty collaborative research!
• Tasks in expertise range of students!
• Meaningful contributions!
!
Chris
Blackwell
&
Tom
MarAn,
“Technology,
CollaboraAon,
and
Undergraduate
Research.”
Digital
Humani/es
Quarterly
3,
no.
1
(2009).
28. Process Checklist for Integrating Digital
Humanities Projects into Courses!
1. Connecting Course and Project!
2. Scaffolding and Chunking!
3. Collaborative Teaching!
4. Logistics!
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http://rebeccafrostdavis.wordpress.com/
2012/09/13/process-checklist-for-integratingdigital-humanities-projects-into-courses/ !