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.
Associated Products
Open Access Collection (Open Access eBook or Collection)Publication Type: Open Access Collection
Title: Let My People Know: The Story of Wilfred Mendelson, "Mendy," August 17, 1915-July 28, 1938
Year: 2022
Publisher: City University of New York
Author: Contributors: Stefano Morello, Isabel Estrada, et. al.
Abstract: Wilfred Mendelson, “Mendy,” (1915-1938) was one of thirteen CCNY students, faculty and staff volunteers who died fighting in support of Spain's democracy during the Spanish civil war (1936-1939). Four years after his death, his classmates and fellow volunteers gathered to pay homage to and memorialize him with the publication of Let My People Know: The Story of Wilfred Mendelson (“Mendy”), Student Leader, Organizer, Journalist, Anti-Fascist Soldier Who Fell in Spain July 28, 1938. This digital edition, edited collaboratively by Isabel Estrada, Stefano Morello, and the students in the Spring 2022 course “Activism and the College Experience” at City College, celebrates the activism of the generation of students growing up in the Great Depression and serves as a stark reminder of our own need to politically engage with both local and transnational agendas in order to shape 21st century democracy.
Primary URL Description:
https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/projects/let-my-people-knowType: Scholarly Edition