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, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, 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.
