HIST 390: The Digital Past

HIST 390-004: The Digital Past
(Fall 2017)

04:30 PM to 07:10 PM R

Section Information for Fall 2017

This course, which satisfies the university’s IT requirement, prepares students to utilize and understand a wide variety of current and emerging digital technologies through application to historical research. These digital technologies can influence the practice of history, and although no background in history is required, students will acquire analytical research and writing skills which are essential to studying history and for future work. The course will involve discussions and workshops on how to use digital tools for historical research and learning the best practices for writing and publishing online. We will also explore the challenges and ethics historians are faced with in the digital age. Students will use the skills they learn throughout the course to create an individual research project examining a topic in an entertainment media of their own choosing.

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

Teaches the fundamentals of information technology within the context of a history course. Students learn fundamentals and skills as well as how our society became so enamored of and dependent on these knowledge and information tools. Understanding a new technology requires understanding how new technologies transform the societies that embrace them. Emphasizes the use of free and open-source software whenever possible. Limited to three attempts.
Mason Core: Info Tech & Computing
Schedule Type: Lecture
Grading:
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.

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