Digital Humanities Minor
Combine your interest in the arts and human culture with the power of computing. You can gain experience with digital technology and data analysis by earning a Digital Humanities minor.As such, it is offered jointly by the Indiana University School of Liberal Arts, School of Informatics and Computing, and Herron School of Art and Design.
The minor guides students in employing visual communication and informatics in the arts, social sciences, and humanities. Students will learn to work with large datasets and perform data analysis on texts. The minor prepares students to understand 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 opportunities to work in today’s highly interconnected global environment.
Plan of Study (16 cr.)
Required Courses (10 cr.)
- HIST H195 Introduction to Digital Humanities (3 cr.)
- HER H281 Digital Humanities Seminar in Digital Art and Design (3 cr.)
- INFO I101 Introduction to Informatics (4 cr.)
HIST H195 is approved for the Arts and Humanities component of the General Education core. INFO I101 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 A303 American Cyber Identity (3 cr.)
- COMM M150 Mass Media and Society (3 cr.)
- COMM M215 Media Literacy (3 cr.)
- ENG W315 Writing for the Web (3 cr.)
- ENG W318 Finding Your E-Voice (3 cr.)
- ENG W412 Literacy and Technology (3 cr.)
- GEOG G337 Cartography and Graphics (3 cr.)
- GEOG G439 Seminar in Geographic Information Science (3 cr.)
Informatics and Information Science
- INFO I210 Information Infrastructure (4 cr.)
- INFO I223 Data Fluency (3 cr.)
- INFO I270 Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction: Principles and Practices (3 cr.)
- INFO I421 Applications of Data Mining (3 cr.)
- LIS S223 Genealogy and Local History Resources (3 cr.)
- LIS S282 Digital Preservation (3 cr.)
- LIS S303 Organization and Representation of Knowledge and Information (3 cr.)
- LIS S321 Humanities Information (3 cr.)
- LIS S352 Digital Libraries (3 cr.)
Media Arts
- NEWM N115 Introduction to Multi-Device Web Development (3 cr.)
- NEWM N202 Digital Storytelling (3 cr.)
- NEWM N253 Introduction to Digital Video (3 cr.)
- NEWM N243 Introduction to 3D (3 cr.)
- NEWM N343 Hard Surface 3D Modeling (3 cr.)
- NEWM N449 3D Prototyping for Visualization and Abstraction (3 cr.)
Students must earn a C or higher in each course to graduate with the Digital Humanities minor.
