IU Indianapolis Campus Bulletin 2024-2025

Digital Humanities Minor (16 cr.)

Offered jointly by the School of Liberal Arts, Herron School of Art and Design, and the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering in Indianapolis, this minor guides students in employing visual communication and informatics in the arts, social sciences, and humanities.

You’ll learn to understand technology not as a thing apart, but as a part of our creative culture. Through this minor, students have the opportunity to view the technologies they use as objects of humanistic and artistic design, laden with historical and cultural perspectives that interact with political and economic systems.

This experience with digital technologies and humanistic thinking expands your opportunities in today’s highly interconnected global environment, as you learn to work with large data sets and perform data analysis on texts.

Required Courses (10 cr.)

• HIST-H 195 Introduction to Digital Humanities (3 cr.)
• HER-F 130 Studio Art and Technology (3 cr.)
• INFO-I 101 Introduction to Informatics (4 cr.)

HIST-H 195 is approved for the Arts and Humanities component of the General Education core. INFO-I 101 is approved for the Analytical Reasoning, List B, component of the General Education core.

Elective Courses (6 cr.)

Select two courses from outside your major:

Humanities

• AMST-A 303 American Cyber Identity (3 cr.)
• COMM-M 150 Mass Media and Society (3 cr.)
• COMM-M 215 Media Literacy (3 cr.)
• ENG-W 315 Writing for the Web (3 cr.)
• ENG-W 318 Finding Your E-Voice (3 cr.)
• ENG-W 412 Literacy and Technology (3 cr.)
• GEOG-G 337 Cartography and Graphics (3 cr.)
• GEOG-G 439 Seminar in Geographic Information Science (3 cr.)

Informatics and Information Science

• INFO-I 210 Information Infrastructure (4 cr.)
• INFO-I 223 Data Fluency (3 cr.)
• INFO-I 270 Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction: Principles and Practices (3 cr.)
• INFO-I 421 Applications of Data Mining (3 cr.)
• LIS-S 223 Genealogy and Local History Resources (3 cr.)
• LIS-S 282 Digital Preservation (3 cr.)
• LIS-S 303 Organization and Representation of Knowledge and Information (3 cr.)
• LIS-S 321 Humanities Information (3 cr.)
• LIS-S 352 Digital Libraries (3 cr.)

Media Arts

• NEWM-N 115 Introduction to Multi-Device Web Development (3 cr.)
• NEWM-N 202 Digital Storytelling (3 cr.)
• NEWM-N 253 Introduction to Digital Video (3 cr.)
• NEWM-N 243 Introduction to 3D (3 cr.)
• NEWM-N 343 Hard Surface 3D Modeling (3 cr.)
• NEWM-N 449 3D Prototyping for Visualization and Abstraction (3 cr.)

Students must earn a C- or higher in each course and maintain a 2.0 GPA to graduate with the Digital Humanities minor.

last updated:  3/2024