Digital Humanities Minor
Digital Humanities Minor courses integrate literary study with the use of digital tools and technologies. Students in the minor learn how to make interpretive arguments by building digital archives and maps, interacting with digital games, using web-based publishing platforms, and visualizing data. The minor pays particular attention to the culture of creation in literary and cultural analysis.
32043
This course explores the fundamentals of film and media aesthetics, including narrative, mise-en-scène, cinematography, editing, and sound. By learning how to analyze film and utilize proper cinematic language, students will begin to critically understand film as an art form and a product of... (read more)
32054
This course introduces students to critical thinking about the historical and economic factors influencing film, media, and cultural production in Hollywood and in response to Hollywood. Unconventional textual and contextual dynamics, understood as queer history, are the focus of the course,... (read more)
32075
This course is the capstone for the Digital Humanities minor. In it, students will develop an original, term-length digital research project of their own design, bringing together all the skills and knowledge they have developed as they have taken other classes toward the minor. The project... (read more)
22043
People respond to movies in different ways, and there are many reasons for this. We have all stood in the lobby of a theater and heard conflicting opinions from people who have just seen the same film. Some loved it, some hated it, some found it just OK. Perhaps we've thought, "What do they know... (read more)
22053
ENG 250 is the gateway to the English Department’s Digital Humanities Minor. The interdisciplinary field of digital humanities (DH) is concerned with the relationship between digital technology and the humanities (academic disciplines that study language, literature, history, philosophy,... (read more)
22054
Instructor: Ari Purnama
This course explores the fundamentals of film and media aesthetics, including narrative, mise-en-scène, cinematography, editing, and sound. By learning how to analyze film and utilize proper cinematic language, students will begin to critically understand film as an... (read more)
22055
This course explores the fundamentals of film and media aesthetics, including narrative, mise-en-scène, cinematography, editing, and sound. By learning how to analyze film and utilize proper cinematic language, students will begin to critically understand film as an art form and a product of... (read more)
26422
This class introduces students to TV as a way of studying the power dynamics of popular culture—with special attention to the 1950s and 1960s, unconventional forms of art, the overlaps of the music and television industries, and previous student research in this and other queer transgender media... (read more)
11023
Intermediate-level focus on the proper preparation and presentation of digital images for use in print and on-screen. Covers color theory. Prerequisites: ART 115, 116, 233 and ARTD 250
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18223
This course studies works of film and media as representational objects that engage with communities identified ... (read more)
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41831
People respond to movies in different ways, and there are many reasons for this. We have all stood in the lobby of a theater and heard conflicting opinions from people who have just seen the same film. Some loved it, some hated it, some found it just OK. Disagreements, however, can reveal a... (read more)
41832
People respond to movies in different ways, and there are many reasons for this. We have all stood in the lobby of a theater and heard conflicting opinions from people who have just seen the same film. Some loved it, some hated it, some found it just OK. Disagreements, however, can reveal a... (read more)
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41839
This course studies works of film and media as representational objects that engage with communities identified by intersectional categories including sex, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, nation, class, and ability. It considers historical and contemporary effects of prejudice, intolerance,... (read more)
43549
This course studies works of film and media as representational objects that engage with communities identified by intersectional categories including sex, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, nation, class, and ability. It considers historical and contemporary effects of prejudice, intolerance,... (read more)
43660
This course provides an introduction to the analysis of form and style in cinema and related media, focusing on narrative, mise-en-scène, cinematography, editing, and sound. This course aims to develop your media literacy by providing you with a precise set of critical tools for analyzing moving... (read more)
32145
In this course, we will explore the basic elements of media aesthetics through the very contemporary issue of global pandemics. For our purposes, we will take the word “pandemic” loosely, following its association with pandemonium, as “a place or state of utter confusion and uproar.” Deriving... (read more)
32156
This course introduces students to critical thinking about the aesthetic, historical and economic factors influencing film, media, and cultural... (read more)
36536
ENG 470/570 Technologies and Texts Capstone As a capstone to the minor in Digital Humanities (DH), this course will give you an opportunity to... (read more)
36540
This course introduces students to television as a way of studying the power dynamics of popular culture. This term the course focuses on the... (read more)
22221
This course is an introduction to film and media studies and various methods of critical analysis. In this course, we will see that... (read more)
22230
This course explores the fundamentals of film and media aesthetics, including narrative, mise-en-scène, cinematography, editing, and... (read more)
22231
This course explores the fundamentals of film and media aesthetics, including narrative, mise-en-scène, cinematography, editing, and... (read more)
22241
This course introduces students to critical thinking about the aesthetic, historical and economic factors influencing film, media, and... (read more)
22244
What happens to literature when text moves from page to screen? This online course invites students of all majors and levels of... (read more)
26560
This course addresses the relationship between narrative and cartography. The course engages two perspectives on this topic, as... (read more)
26664
What happens when digital tools and literature meet? What can the “digital turn” in literary studies help us to understand about... (read more)
10843
Study of basic grammatical structure and vocabulary of American Sign Language, expressive and receptive finger-spelling, and introduction to American deaf culture.
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12102
This course is an introduction to film and media studies and various methods of critical analysis. In this course, we will see that... (read more)
12103
This course is an introduction to film and media studies and various methods of critical analysis. In this course, we will see that... (read more)
12114
This course introduces students to the Digital Humanities (DH) — broadly defined as the use of digital tools, platforms, and critical perspectives to address... (read more)
12115
This course provides an introduction to the analysis of form and style in cinema and related media, focusing on narrative, mise-en-... (read more)
12116
This course provides an introduction to the analysis of form and style in cinema and related media, focusing on narrative, mise-en-... (read more)
12128
This course introduces students to critical thinking about the aesthetic, historical and economic factors influencing film, media, and cultural production. The... (read more)
42488
Literature and Digital Culture offers a guided introduction to some of the new technologies that scholars use to study and make... (read more)
36210
As a capstone to the minor in Digital Humanities (DH), in this course you’ll create a digital research project of your own. Class discussions will consider how... (read more)
27134
This course explores the fundamentals of film and media aesthetics, including narrative, mise-en-scène, cinematography, editing, and... (read more)
27135
Aliens, monsters, killer robots, mutants.... Such metaphors may express cultural fears of the “other” that underlie social prejudice, intolerance, and... (read more)
27574
This course explores the fundamentals of film and media aesthetics, including narrative, mise-en-scène, cinematography, editing, and... (read more)
16078
What does it mean to be at home? How does it feel to lose one's home?
And how do ideas of home and homelessness shape our sense of self or security? This course builds on these questions to look at a collection of literary works that focus explicitly on the idea of home in American culture... (read more)