Undergraduate Elective: Digital Humanities: Technology Transforming Cultural Heritage
The early 21st century is seeing societal transformations as profound as the shift in the ancient world from a primarily oral culture to a written one, or the early modern revolution from the manuscript to print. The digital affects virtually every aspect of our lives: from the ways we communicate, to modalities of education, to the ways in which we make sense of the past and have glimpses into the future.
This stream will explore the transformation from the analogue to the digital in the study of our past providing innovative means to approach traditional fields of expertise. It will also focus on the diverse ways that new tools, methods, and technologies, and the vast amount of information available to us, from the World Wide Web to social media, augment our understandings of the present.
Students registering for this stream will delve into a number of technologies and methods that transform our engagement with primary data, including 2D and 3D visualisation, crowdsourcing, augmented and virtual reality, text encoding, serious games, and web archiving.
In addition to lectures, there will be hands-on labs and supervised practical exercises in which students will have the opportunity to learn by doing. Classes will encourage active learning through discussion, group work, and critical thinking exercises. The learning outcomes of the module will be assessed via continuous assessment that will provide feedback at various stages of the stream and will help students to identify the areas that require improvement.
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