Building a Digital Humanities Minor at the City College of New York

FAIN: AC-277702-21

CUNY Research Foundation, City College (New York, NY 10031-9101)
Renata Kobetts Miller (Project Director: July 2020 to present)
Thomas Peele (Co Project Director: December 2020 to present)

A three-year initiative to develop and pilot a minor in digital humanities at City College, to be housed in the Division of Humanities and the Arts.

The City College of New York proposes to develop and pilot a curriculum for a minor in Digital Humanities. For humanities majors these courses and this minor will serve three central purposes: they will increase students' inquiry-driven and experiential learning in the humanities, they will augment and enrich traditional humanistic study by providing our students with a broader array of techniques in performing critical analysis and problem-solving (two of the central values of a humanities education), and they will expand students' understanding of the analytical frameworks that are available to them. By emphasizing the points of convergence between humanities and technology the Digital Humanities minor will enrich students' understanding of how the humanities fit within broader contexts; it will also prepare them for a broader array of career options. These courses may also attract technologically-oriented students to pursue humanistic study.