Exploring Digital History

(Crosslisted with HIST 3523) Prerequisite: Junior Standing. Examines major themes, issues, and developments affecting the research, writing, analysis, preservation, and presentation of history in the digital age. Includes hands-on engagement with, and critical assessment of, the use of digital tools for conducting historical inquiry, and exploration of the circulation of historical knowledge in such venues as social media, blogs, podcasts, digital archives, online collections, and historically-themed gaming. (Sp) [IV-WC]