Academic Calendar - 2024
Western University Academic Calendar. - 2024
Digital Humanities
This is a first course in programming for students of all backgrounds. Topics include images, video, sound, and text; user interface; interaction design; web services and APIs; and microcontroller platforms like Arduino and Phidgets. Students complete a series of projects on animation, installation art, electronic music, theatre, visualization, and/or robotics.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course covers Digital Humanities history, evolution, main topics, global practices, and immersive experience design.
Extra Information: 3 hours. In person lectures with active digital interaction on site. Reflective pieces and assignments online.
Course Weight: 0.50
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From recent work in arts, neuroscience and business to exemplary cases of present-day creativity, this course studies and fosters innovation. It provides hands-on experience and collaborative work that will lead to the development of a creative idea into a business plan.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Please consult with the Department for current course offerings.
Prerequisite(s): Computer Science 1033A/B or Digital Humanities 1011A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Please consult with the Department for current course offerings.
Prerequisite(s): Computer Science 1033A/B or Digital Humanities 1011A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Please consult with the Department for current course offerings.
Prerequisite(s): Computer Science 1033A/B or Digital Humanities 1011A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Please consult with the Department for current course offerings.
Prerequisite(s): Computer Science 1033A/B or Digital Humanities 1011A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Please consult with the Department for current course offerings.
Prerequisite(s): Computer Science 1033A/B or Digital Humanities 1011A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Through social media, computer gaming, and virtual communities, we spend a considerable portion of our lives in the digital world. What moral considerations ought to guide our conduct as digital citizens? This class will explore cases of online ethical challenges and theories that might provide some answers.
Antirequisite(s): Philosophy 2078F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours, blended format.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Practice and enhance your creativity with hands-on creative collaborative exercises, learning to develop a personal business plan and learning the fundamentals of solving problems with design thinking.
Extra Information: 2 hours (1-hour lecture + 1-hour studio practice).
Course Weight: 0.50
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In this course students will learn how historical content is produced, presented and published online; how to find and evaluate digital primary and secondary sources; and how to use computational techniques to work with digital resources. No previous background in the subject area is required.
Antirequisite(s): History 3816F/G, Digital Humanities 3902F/G, the former History 2816A/B.
Extra Information: 4 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Understand how people adapt, communicate, and innovate amidst cultural shifts. Become familiar with tools available to unravel intricate narratives of resilience and transformation across diverse linguistic and cultural landscapes. Embrace adaptability through interactive class activities.
Antirequisite(s): Intercultural Communications 2100F/G, Spanish 3135F/G.
Extra Information: 1 lecture hour, 2 laboratory hours (independent and collaborative work). Taught in English. Course work and tutorial section in Spanish for Spanish program and module students. Cross-listed with Intercultural Communications 2100F/G and Spanish 3135F/G.
Course Weight: 0.50
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A comprehensive and interdisciplinary introduction to data analytics using modern computing systems, with equal attention to fundamentals and practical aspects. Topics include sources of data, data formats and transformation, usage of spreadsheets and databases, statistical analysis, pattern recognition, data mining, big data, and methods for data presentation and visualization.
Antirequisite(s): Computer Science 2034A/B.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 2 laboratory/tutorial hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Students will explore the intersection of technology, culture, and humanities through crafting machine learning applications. They will study computational methods in humanities research, emphasizing AI's role in analyzing various media forms. Projects will help apply these skills practically.
Prerequisite(s): Digital Humanities 1011A/B or Computer Science 1026A/B.
Extra Information: 1 lecture hour, 2 laboratory hours (independent and collaborative work).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Essential information processing skills for humanities students. Includes an introduction to programming; creating programs and scripts to address problems that arise in applied research; examples of data sets and projects drawn from different areas of the humanities and social science. No previous formal programming background required.
Prerequisite(s): Computer Science 1033A/B or Digital Humanities 1011A/B.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours, 1 laboratory/tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An overview of core data structures and algorithms in computing, with a focus on applications to informatics and analytics in a variety of disciplines. Includes lists, stacks, queues, trees, graphs, and their associated algorithms; sorting, searching, and hashing techniques. Suitable for non-Computer Science students.
Prerequisite(s): Digital Humanities 2220A/B.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours, 1 laboratory/tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Learn how to use human-centered design to solve practical problems across domains and businesses. Get to know the main ideas and history of human design. This is a practical, handson course. The main outcome is the production of a human design portfolio.
Extra Information: 2 hours (1-hour lecture + 1-hour studio practice).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Conceptual and analytical tools to understand the digital momentum of an organization and learning of tools to plan its digital transformation.
Extra Information: 2 hours (1-hour lecture + 1-hour studio practice).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Strategic tools to set the direction and pace of a digital organization according to its values, customers, technology and platforms.
Extra Information: 2 hours (1-hour lecture + 1-hour studio practice).
Course Weight: 0.50
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The course explores fundamental principles and methodologies essential for creating immersive experiences through the analysis of case studies and applications. Students will learn and work on key components in this context such as design, modelling, artificial intelligence-generated art, data, and visualizations while learning from a project-based approach.
Extra Information: 1 lecture hour, 2 laboratory hours (independent and collaborative work).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Please consult with the Department for current course offerings.
Prerequisite(s): Computer Science 1033A/B or Digital Humanities 1011A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Please consult with the Department for current course offerings.
Prerequisite(s): Computer Science 1033A/B or Digital Humanities 1011A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Please consult with the Department for current course offerings.
Prerequisite(s): Computer Science 1033A/B or Digital Humanities 1011A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Please consult with the Department for current course offerings.
Prerequisite(s): Computer Science 1033A/B or Digital Humanities 1011A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Please consult with the Department for current course offerings.
Prerequisite(s): Computer Science 1033A/B or Digital Humanities 1011A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Learn the practical tools and the theories to foster innovation in organizations based on human design principles and practices.
Prerequisite(s): Digital Humanities 2222A/B.
Extra Information: 2 hours (1-hour lecture + 1-hour studio practice).
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course helps students develop technical skills for co-creativity using Generative AI systems. These include prompt crafting, training data selection, use of AI-generated artifacts for creation, and management of hybrid creative systems. Lectures focus on critical issues, market trends, and artists and innovators thriving in the context of Generative AI.
Extra Information: 1 lecture hour, 2 laboratory hours (independent and collaborative work).
Course Weight: 0.50
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Skills to effectively tell your story across multiple media and platforms.
Prerequisite(s): Digital Humanities 2222A/B.
Extra Information: 2 hours (1-hour lecture + 1-hour studio practice).
Course Weight: 0.50
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The metaverse is being proposed as the new evolution of the Internet. This course examines the metaverse with a special emphasis on virtual reality from the viewpoint of various disciplines, including business, health, education, ethics, culture and behavioral science. The bulk of the learning will occur while immersed in VR.
Prerequisite(s): Digital Humanities 2120F/G or special permission of the department.
Extra Information: 2 hours (1-hour lecture + 1-hour studio practice).
Course Weight: 0.50
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A study of relational databases. Theoretical concepts will be covered, including relational algebra and relational calculus. Commercially available database systems will be used to demonstrate concepts such as Structured-Query-Language (SQL), writing code to connect and query a database, query optimization, Atomicity-Consistency-Isolation-Durability (ACID) concepts, and database design.
Prerequisite(s): Digital Humanities 2221A/B.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours
Course Weight: 0.50
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This interdisciplinary course addresses three main issues: how information can and should be represented; how computers can allow us to interact with information; and how interactive information supports knowledge-driven activities. Case studies explore a variety of disciplines using various tools.
Prerequisite(s): Computer Science 2121A/B, Computer Science 2210A/B, Digital Humanities 2220A/B, Digital Humanities 2221A/B or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 2 laboratory/tutorial hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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A hands-on workshop supplementing traditional historical and ethnographic methods with new modes of inquiry and expression. Students study experimental works, while working in a variety of new media including code; electronics and physical computing; 3D printing; alternate, augmented and mixed reality games; graphic novels; 3D photography; machinima and digital puppetry.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course of Digital Humanities at the 2000 level.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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The Academic Internship is an unpaid, credit internship with minimum of 60 hours. The internship will require students to make connections with academic study while undertaking supervised duties in organizations, businesses or community groups with interests related to Digital Humanities.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of the Department. Registration in the third or fourth year of a module in Digital Humanities, with a minimum cumulative modular average of 75%. Approval of, and acceptance into, an internship placement.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): Students must have completed or are completing the required courses and at least 50% of the module.
Extra Information: Pass or Fail. Students accepted for an internship will arrange individual programs with supervising faculty. The student is required to a) maintain a suitable level of performance in the position as verified by the employer through evaluations and b) submit a mid-term as well as a final report, demonstrating how the experience gained through the internship
relates to his/her coursework and program of study.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Please consult with the Department for current course offerings.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course of Digital Humanities at the 2000 level.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Please consult with the Department for current course offerings.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course of Digital Humanities at the 2000 level.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Please consult with the Department for current course offerings.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course of Digital Humanities at the 2000 level.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Please consult with the Department for current course offerings.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course of Digital Humanities at the 2000 level.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Digital Humanities
This is a first course in programming for students of all backgrounds. Topics include images, video, sound, and text; user interface; interaction design; web services and APIs; and microcontroller platforms like Arduino and Phidgets. Students complete a series of projects on animation, installation art, electronic music, theatre, visualization, and/or robotics.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
Return to top
This course covers Digital Humanities history, evolution, main topics, global practices, and immersive experience design.
Extra Information: 3 hours. In person lectures with active digital interaction on site. Reflective pieces and assignments online.
Course Weight: 0.50
Return to top
From recent work in arts, neuroscience and business to exemplary cases of present-day creativity, this course studies and fosters innovation. It provides hands-on experience and collaborative work that will lead to the development of a creative idea into a business plan.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
Return to top
Please consult with the Department for current course offerings.
Prerequisite(s): Computer Science 1033A/B or Digital Humanities 1011A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
Return to top
Please consult with the Department for current course offerings.
Prerequisite(s): Computer Science 1033A/B or Digital Humanities 1011A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
Return to top
Please consult with the Department for current course offerings.
Prerequisite(s): Computer Science 1033A/B or Digital Humanities 1011A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
Return to top
Please consult with the Department for current course offerings.
Prerequisite(s): Computer Science 1033A/B or Digital Humanities 1011A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
Return to top
Please consult with the Department for current course offerings.
Prerequisite(s): Computer Science 1033A/B or Digital Humanities 1011A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Through social media, computer gaming, and virtual communities, we spend a considerable portion of our lives in the digital world. What moral considerations ought to guide our conduct as digital citizens? This class will explore cases of online ethical challenges and theories that might provide some answers.
Antirequisite(s): Philosophy 2078F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours, blended format.
Course Weight: 0.50
Return to top
Practice and enhance your creativity with hands-on creative collaborative exercises, learning to develop a personal business plan and learning the fundamentals of solving problems with design thinking.
Extra Information: 2 hours (1-hour lecture + 1-hour studio practice).
Course Weight: 0.50
Return to top
In this course students will learn how historical content is produced, presented and published online; how to find and evaluate digital primary and secondary sources; and how to use computational techniques to work with digital resources. No previous background in the subject area is required.
Antirequisite(s): History 3816F/G, Digital Humanities 3902F/G, the former History 2816A/B.
Extra Information: 4 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
Return to top
Understand how people adapt, communicate, and innovate amidst cultural shifts. Become familiar with tools available to unravel intricate narratives of resilience and transformation across diverse linguistic and cultural landscapes. Embrace adaptability through interactive class activities.
Antirequisite(s): Intercultural Communications 2100F/G, Spanish 3135F/G.
Extra Information: 1 lecture hour, 2 laboratory hours (independent and collaborative work). Taught in English. Course work and tutorial section in Spanish for Spanish program and module students. Cross-listed with Intercultural Communications 2100F/G and Spanish 3135F/G.
Course Weight: 0.50
Return to top
A comprehensive and interdisciplinary introduction to data analytics using modern computing systems, with equal attention to fundamentals and practical aspects. Topics include sources of data, data formats and transformation, usage of spreadsheets and databases, statistical analysis, pattern recognition, data mining, big data, and methods for data presentation and visualization.
Antirequisite(s): Computer Science 2034A/B.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 2 laboratory/tutorial hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Students will explore the intersection of technology, culture, and humanities through crafting machine learning applications. They will study computational methods in humanities research, emphasizing AI's role in analyzing various media forms. Projects will help apply these skills practically.
Prerequisite(s): Digital Humanities 1011A/B or Computer Science 1026A/B.
Extra Information: 1 lecture hour, 2 laboratory hours (independent and collaborative work).
Course Weight: 0.50
Return to top
Essential information processing skills for humanities students. Includes an introduction to programming; creating programs and scripts to address problems that arise in applied research; examples of data sets and projects drawn from different areas of the humanities and social science. No previous formal programming background required.
Prerequisite(s): Computer Science 1033A/B or Digital Humanities 1011A/B.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours, 1 laboratory/tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 0.50
Return to top
An overview of core data structures and algorithms in computing, with a focus on applications to informatics and analytics in a variety of disciplines. Includes lists, stacks, queues, trees, graphs, and their associated algorithms; sorting, searching, and hashing techniques. Suitable for non-Computer Science students.
Prerequisite(s): Digital Humanities 2220A/B.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours, 1 laboratory/tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 0.50
Return to top
Learn how to use human-centered design to solve practical problems across domains and businesses. Get to know the main ideas and history of human design. This is a practical, handson course. The main outcome is the production of a human design portfolio.
Extra Information: 2 hours (1-hour lecture + 1-hour studio practice).
Course Weight: 0.50
Return to top
Conceptual and analytical tools to understand the digital momentum of an organization and learning of tools to plan its digital transformation.
Extra Information: 2 hours (1-hour lecture + 1-hour studio practice).
Course Weight: 0.50
Return to top
Strategic tools to set the direction and pace of a digital organization according to its values, customers, technology and platforms.
Extra Information: 2 hours (1-hour lecture + 1-hour studio practice).
Course Weight: 0.50
Return to top
The course explores fundamental principles and methodologies essential for creating immersive experiences through the analysis of case studies and applications. Students will learn and work on key components in this context such as design, modelling, artificial intelligence-generated art, data, and visualizations while learning from a project-based approach.
Extra Information: 1 lecture hour, 2 laboratory hours (independent and collaborative work).
Course Weight: 0.50
Return to top
Please consult with the Department for current course offerings.
Prerequisite(s): Computer Science 1033A/B or Digital Humanities 1011A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
Return to top
Please consult with the Department for current course offerings.
Prerequisite(s): Computer Science 1033A/B or Digital Humanities 1011A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
Return to top
Please consult with the Department for current course offerings.
Prerequisite(s): Computer Science 1033A/B or Digital Humanities 1011A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
Return to top
Please consult with the Department for current course offerings.
Prerequisite(s): Computer Science 1033A/B or Digital Humanities 1011A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
Return to top
Please consult with the Department for current course offerings.
Prerequisite(s): Computer Science 1033A/B or Digital Humanities 1011A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Learn the practical tools and the theories to foster innovation in organizations based on human design principles and practices.
Prerequisite(s): Digital Humanities 2222A/B.
Extra Information: 2 hours (1-hour lecture + 1-hour studio practice).
Course Weight: 0.50
Return to top
This course helps students develop technical skills for co-creativity using Generative AI systems. These include prompt crafting, training data selection, use of AI-generated artifacts for creation, and management of hybrid creative systems. Lectures focus on critical issues, market trends, and artists and innovators thriving in the context of Generative AI.
Extra Information: 1 lecture hour, 2 laboratory hours (independent and collaborative work).
Course Weight: 0.50
Return to top
Skills to effectively tell your story across multiple media and platforms.
Prerequisite(s): Digital Humanities 2222A/B.
Extra Information: 2 hours (1-hour lecture + 1-hour studio practice).
Course Weight: 0.50
Return to top
The metaverse is being proposed as the new evolution of the Internet. This course examines the metaverse with a special emphasis on virtual reality from the viewpoint of various disciplines, including business, health, education, ethics, culture and behavioral science. The bulk of the learning will occur while immersed in VR.
Prerequisite(s): Digital Humanities 2120F/G or special permission of the department.
Extra Information: 2 hours (1-hour lecture + 1-hour studio practice).
Course Weight: 0.50
Return to top
A study of relational databases. Theoretical concepts will be covered, including relational algebra and relational calculus. Commercially available database systems will be used to demonstrate concepts such as Structured-Query-Language (SQL), writing code to connect and query a database, query optimization, Atomicity-Consistency-Isolation-Durability (ACID) concepts, and database design.
Prerequisite(s): Digital Humanities 2221A/B.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours
Course Weight: 0.50
Return to top
This interdisciplinary course addresses three main issues: how information can and should be represented; how computers can allow us to interact with information; and how interactive information supports knowledge-driven activities. Case studies explore a variety of disciplines using various tools.
Prerequisite(s): Computer Science 2121A/B, Computer Science 2210A/B, Digital Humanities 2220A/B, Digital Humanities 2221A/B or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 2 laboratory/tutorial hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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A hands-on workshop supplementing traditional historical and ethnographic methods with new modes of inquiry and expression. Students study experimental works, while working in a variety of new media including code; electronics and physical computing; 3D printing; alternate, augmented and mixed reality games; graphic novels; 3D photography; machinima and digital puppetry.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course of Digital Humanities at the 2000 level.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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The Academic Internship is an unpaid, credit internship with minimum of 60 hours. The internship will require students to make connections with academic study while undertaking supervised duties in organizations, businesses or community groups with interests related to Digital Humanities.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of the Department. Registration in the third or fourth year of a module in Digital Humanities, with a minimum cumulative modular average of 75%. Approval of, and acceptance into, an internship placement.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): Students must have completed or are completing the required courses and at least 50% of the module.
Extra Information: Pass or Fail. Students accepted for an internship will arrange individual programs with supervising faculty. The student is required to a) maintain a suitable level of performance in the position as verified by the employer through evaluations and b) submit a mid-term as well as a final report, demonstrating how the experience gained through the internship
relates to his/her coursework and program of study.
Course Weight: 0.50
Return to top
Please consult with the Department for current course offerings.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course of Digital Humanities at the 2000 level.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
Return to top
Please consult with the Department for current course offerings.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course of Digital Humanities at the 2000 level.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
Return to top
Please consult with the Department for current course offerings.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course of Digital Humanities at the 2000 level.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
Return to top
Please consult with the Department for current course offerings.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course of Digital Humanities at the 2000 level.
Extra Information: 3 hours.