Curricular Connections to Digital Humanities Research:

DHi’s CLASS Program

Angel David NievesAssociate Professor & Chair of Africana Studies

Digital Humanities Initiative (DHi), Co-Director/Co-PI

Janet Thomas SimonsAssociate Director, Instructional Technology

Digital Humanities Initiative (DHi), Co-Director/Co-PI

Mary Lehner Hamilton ’12

Steve Young Unix/HPC System Administrator

http://dhinitiative.org/projects/scaffold/

Multimedia Course Support

1.Extensive time investment by all involved

2.Find or create examples or models of expected outcomes.

3.Collaborative Design - faculty with academic support

4.Structure media assignments as a sequence of learning experiences building upon each other over the course of the semester so that content can be assimilated simultaneously with critical literacy's skill development.

5.Multiple Checkpoints for Evaluation. 6.Public presentations of students final

projects and process.

  

 http://academics.hamilton.edu/mediascholarship/index.cfm?PATH=Recommendations.html

Curricular Initiatives & New Models

Independent Projects  

• Independent projects as versions of Course Support

• Alexander Benkharthttp://www.hamilton.edu/news/story/from-ancient-to-animation-discovering-japanese-heroines

• Cinema and New Media Studies Minorhttp://www.hamilton.edu/academics/departments?dept=Cinema

• Research projects - Students and Faculty

• Alexander Benkharthttp://www.hamilton.edu/news/story/alex-benkhart-11-awarded-fulbright-to-japan

• Erica Kowszhttp://www.hamilton.edu/news/story/erica-kowsz-1-awarded-fulbright-to-canada

• Gabriela Ariashttp://www.hamilton.edu/news/story/gabriela-arias-11-interns-at-museo-del-barrio

 Comparative Japanese

Fil

m

Archive 

http://www.dhinitiative.org/projects/japanesefilm/demo

Culture Language Arts and Society Scholars

•Two week intensive training in digital approaches to humanities based research.