HIST 198 - Digital History

This course offers students an opportunity to consider the ways that digital tools and methods affect the practice of history, with a focus on Wheaton College and the United States in a global context. We will learn how digital history combines tools and ideas associated with digital humanities to enrich the processes of collecting, analyzing, and disseminating historical knowledge. We will survey projects in digital history and digital humanities that use such tools to bring to light forgotten or hidden histories. And through collaborations with librarians and students both on and off-campus, we will explore relationships between Wheaton and the larger world in both the past and the present.

Credits 1

Notes
From time to time, departments design a new course to be offered either on a one-time basis or an experimental basis before deciding whether to make it a regular part of the curriculum. Last offered Spring 2023.

Area
History

Division
Arts and Humanities

Compass Attributes
Humanities