Digital Fluency and Experiential Learning: Promoting Digital Humanities in Undergraduate Research

FAIN: AKB-285837-22

University of North Carolina, Asheville (Asheville, NC 28804-3251)
Ellen Holmes Pearson (Project Director: September 2021 to present)
Victoria Bradbury (Co Project Director: April 2022 to present)

The development of an interdisciplinary digital humanities undergraduate research track whose courses would feature community-engaged experiential learning.

The project team for “Digital Fluency and Experiential Learning: Promoting Digital Humanities in Undergraduate Research” will create a Digital Humanities Undergraduate Research (DHUR) track for UNC Asheville’s Undergraduate Research Program. DHUR courses will engage students in digital humanities through experiential learning and undergraduate research activities. The grant will facilitate faculty development efforts in order to increase the number of courses that employ humanistic inquiry and digital tools and to adapt and pilot courses for the DHUR track. These courses will incorporate practices such as community engagement, archival research, story mapping, oral history collection, and other forms of experiential learning. Students in DHUR courses will contribute to the crafting and dissemination of an inclusive online museum housing archival materials and interactive projects that illuminate the experiences of historically excluded people in Asheville and its environs.

Associated Products

First-Year Student Showcase: A Celebration of Multimodal Composition in LANG 120, HUM 124, and FYS 178 (Web Resource)
Title: First-Year Student Showcase: A Celebration of Multimodal Composition in LANG 120, HUM 124, and FYS 178
Author: Leslee Johnson, ed.
Abstract: This website features digital and digitized projects from first-year courses (Language 120, English composition course; Humanities 124, a study of the Ancient World; and FYS 178, the First Year Seminar). Select projects from courses under this grant are featured.
Year: 2023
Primary URL: https://stories.unca.edu/first-year-showcase-of-fall-2023
Primary URL Description: Website URL

Old Shiloh Neighborhood (Web Resource)
Title: Old Shiloh Neighborhood
Author: Victoria Bradbury, Ph.D.
Author: Ellen Holmes Pearson, Ph.D.
Author: Emily Cadmus
Author: Catherine Amos
Author: Anitra Griffin
Author: Emily Kerr
Author: Ana Rodriguez
Author: Rebecca Kelley
Author: Anita White-Carter
Abstract: The “Old Shiloh Neighborhood” Story Map project is a co-creation between Shiloh community members and UNC Asheville students and faculty. The digital exhibit tells the story of Asheville, North Carolina's Old Shiloh neighborhood and its move from its original site on what is now the Biltmore Estate, to its current location. This African American neighborhood remains a vital part of Western North Carolina's history and culture.
Year: 2024
Primary URL: https://828archives.org/shiloh/
Primary URL Description: Website

“GIS and Humanities: A Partnership Made in Space,” (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: “GIS and Humanities: A Partnership Made in Space,”
Abstract: Digital Humanities seeks to discover meaning in our world. Much of that meaning is connected to space, place, and the patterns, relationships, and changes to those spaces and places. Geotechnologies (Geographic Information Systems (GIS), remote sensing, and GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite Systems) were created to map, analyze, and communicate the results of the "whys of where." Join Geographer Joseph Kerski as we explore the connections between Digital Humanities and Geotechnologies. Discover how you can combine these powerful tools with spatial, critical, and holistic thinking to empower your own career pathway in environmental and atmospheric science, social work, public health, behavioral studies, history, data science, and many other fields.
Author: Joseph Kerski, Ph.D.
Date: 03/18/2024
Location: UNC Asheville
Primary URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIJmUuHsrtg
Primary URL Description: YouTube video, UNC Asheville

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