HIST 395 - Doing Digital History

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This course examines the impact of new media on the discipline of history. In order to help students become knowledgeable practitioners of the Digital Humanities, this course has the following aims: to introduce and discuss the positives and negatives of new media for the discipline of history; to evaluate the latest scholarship about new media; to familiarize the student with digital resources; to construct a historical project using digital sources and new media. (Offered spring, even years)