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Minor in Digital Humanities
The minor in Digital Humanities facilitates the practice and mastery of the core values of humanistic education with the skills of computing and information science in the environment of visual communication and the digital arts. By completing a minor that unites these three areas (humanities, informatics and computing, and the arts) students will be prepared to understand technologies that they will use—hardware, software, and processes—not just as functional objects but also as objects of humanistic and artistic design.
A minor in Digital Humanities requires satifcatory completion of the following requirements: 
  • Completion of properly distributed credit hour requirements for the baccalaureate degree in effect when the student was admitted to their home school.
  • Completion of 15 credit hours, with a minimum grade of C in each course.
  • Six credits must be completed at IU Indianapolis
  • to declare the minor, complete the School of Liberal Arts online declaration form here.

Required Digital Humanities Courses (10 credits):

  • HIST-H 195: Introduction to Digital Humanities (3 cr.)
  • HER-H 281: Digital Humanities Seminar in Digital Art and Design (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 and component of the General Education core.

Elective Courses (6 credits) 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: Introduction to Data Science (3 cr.)
  • INFO-I 270: Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction: Principles and Practices (3 cr.)
  • INFO-I 421: Applications of Data Mining (3 cr., prerequisite: INFO-I 223)
  • 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., prerequisite: INFO-N 202)
  • NEWM-N 243: Introduction to 3D (3 cr.)
  • NEWM-N 343: Hard Surface 3D Modeling (3 cr., prerequisite: INFO-N 243)
  • NEWM-N 449: 3D Prototyping for Visualization and Abstraction (3 cr.)