A survey of American architecture from the first European contact to 1800 including Jefferson, urban form and landscape design.

This workshop introduces advanced humanities students to map history research and geospatial visualization. It features work with maps in Special Collections as well as the production of digital scholarship using ArcGIS software. No experience is expected or required. This course counts as an elective for the DH Graduate Certificate program. Prerequisite: Graduate student or College 3rd or 4th year.

Independent study conducted by the student under the supervision of an instructor of choice.

What are the digital humanities and how might they apply to your research?  

This graduate course is an introduction to the ways that digital methods and tools are reshaping research, teaching, and public scholarship in the humanities. Through weekly readings, we will discuss key debates in the digital humanities, including critical questions around archives, power, politics, and sustainability. We will pair theoretical discussions with examples of digital scholarship so you can explore how projects are designed, built, and situated within broader intellectual and institutional contexts, both at UVa and beyond.  

Through hands-on encounters with digital tools and methods, you will also develop a practical understanding of possibilities and limits in areas such as text analysis, mapping, visualization, digital archives, public-facing scholarship, digital pedagogy, critical making, and GenAI. This course is designed to support you in reflecting on your own research interests and disciplinary commitments, considering how Digital Humanities might extend, challenge, or transform your work. No prior technical experience is required, only curiosity and a willingness to experiment critically. 

Assignments

Assignments for this course are gradual, cumulative, and designed to result in a web-essay that allows you to create multi-modal narratives that incorporate items from your digital collection directly into your writing and pages. Specific assignments include blog posts, an annotated bibliography, practical assignments, and leading in-class activities. 

Topics and methods

Data, Archives and Power; CollectionBuilder; Text and Visual Analysis; Voyant; Digital Pedagogy; Critical Making; 3D printing; Digital Technologies and the Environment, among others.

This course is required for the DH Certificate.

This course is open only to students who joined the program before Fall 2023. Contact Rennie Mapp for information about how to enroll. If you enrolled in the DH Certificate in Fall 2023 or later, your required Practicum is DH 7008.

This is a required course for the graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities. It entails participation in colloquia, sixty hours of experience participating in a research project uniting computation and humanities, and a portfolio.