BA Digital Humanities

The digital humanities major draws upon the traditional strengths of the humanities and liberal arts learning with special attention towards digital and information technology. It enables students to extend their study of the humanities to digital culture, as both a tool in service of the humanities and an object of humanistic study. By combining traditional humanities skills with technical abilities, students will understand how to ethically analyze and source data through a humanist lens and use digital culture to study the human condition. Furthermore, students will learn how to engage in collaborative interdisciplinary work and how to translate these skills to the job market in education, public history, work with nonprofit agencies, and many other fields. Interdisciplinary in nature, the digital humanities major requires fewer credit hours than a traditional, stand-alone major, and, as a second major, must be paired with another major.Digital Humanities is not a strict field, but rather the application of computational technologies and methods to Humanities problems. It is a community bridge where people from different disciplines and backgrounds come together to learn how to effectively combine skills to create joint and interdisciplinary research. It is a form of interpretation that attempts to help people better understand unknown or difficult questions and topics. The major in digital humanities brings together coursework across the college and allows students to tailor their own path and interests by fusing theoretical inquiry into digital humanities with practical technical skills that are most relevant to their primary major area of study.