HIS 304 Digital Public History

Spring

Public Historians are now living and working in a digital age, and as such, must confront and engage in the theory and practices of digital public history. In the field of public history, historical learning is disseminated to a broader public through a wide variety of means. This course will expose students to a number of different kinds of digital public history work such as online museums and exhibits, archives, historical interpretation, and digital software and tools for historical research and interpretation. This course studies the theoretical, practical, and professional work of digital public history. Additionally, Digital Public History is grounded in project-based learning and is designated as a high-impact course. Students will perform original primary and secondary research and plan, design, and build a publicly accessible, born-digital archive and inhibit during the course of the semester.

 

3 credit hours