This minor teaches you to see technology as part of our creative culture, blending humanistic, artistic, historical, and cultural perspectives. You’ll gain skills in working with digital technologies, large data sets, and text analysis, broadening your opportunities in today’s interconnected world.
Merge arts and tech for a unique edge
What you'll learn
This program teaches digital humanities as an interdisciplinary field blending humanities, arts, social sciences, and computing. You’ll study key topics like digitization, copyright, and preservation, while developing skills to analyze and create digital art and design. You’ll also learn core IT concepts, programming basics, web development, database queries, and data analysis to solve real-world problems.
- Demonstrate understanding of the special topic of digital humanities as an interdisciplinary field of study encompassing humanities, arts, social sciences, informatics, and computing.
- Explain major issues and debates in the areas of digital humanities including digitization, copyright and permissions, preservation and sustainability, and audience.
- Analyze insights from one another as well as the instructor and their readings to critique digital humanities as a set of methods, debates, and disciplines.
- Apply their broad base of knowledge of the “digital.”
- Show substantial knowledge and understanding of the main characteristics of digitality.
- Analyze and evaluate the history of digitally-inflected art and design practices.
- Create and evaluate presentations on contemporary digital work.
- Apply, analyze and create new knowledge around problems of digital art and design.
- Identify the basic hardware and software components of an IT system, and explain their role and interactions.
- To solve a problem, design, implement, test, and debug programs using variables, expressions, assignments, input/output, control constructs, functions, and parameter passing.
- Create well-formed static and dynamic Web pages using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
- Produce database queries using SQL.
- Organize, display, and analyze data using graphs and descriptive statistics and use them to make decisions.
Minor requirements
Core 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.
Add a minor
Email our recorder at ludinrec@iu.edu to declare a minor.
For academic advising, contact our undergraduate advisors.