2013-14
Core courses
- DIGI/ENGL 2305 — Introduction to Digital Culture
- This course introduces students to the main problems and areas of study in Digital Humanities.
- DIGI 2306 — Introduction to Computing Technologies for the Digital Humanities
- This course introduces students to techniques and technologies commonly used in Digital Humanities.
- DIGI 4006 — Project in Digital Humanities
- This course allows students to work on an advanced research project in Digital Humanities.
Elective courses
- CLAS 3416/4416 — Greek History and Culture: The Hellenistic World
- COSC 2406 — Introduction to Game Design and Development
- DIGI/ENGL 3047 — Topics in Digital Culture: Digital Games
- This course studies digital games as cultural texts; areas of focus include narrative and hypertextuality.
- ENGL 3606 — Popular Culture: Fan Vids
- This course studies fan-produced vids, both as a digital lens through which to analyze other texts and as digital texts themselves.
- ENGL 4886 — Advanced Studies in Digital Culture: Digital Worlds
- This English Studies honours seminar studies representations of digital/virtual worlds in fiction and film.
2012-13
Core courses
- DIGI 2305 — Introduction to Digital Humanities
- DIGI 2306 — Introduction to Computing Technologies for the Digital Humanities
- DIGI 4006 — Project in Digital Humanities
- See the student projects page for more information.
Elective courses
- COSC 2406 — Introduction to Game Design and Development
- ENGL 3036 — Studies in Media: Digital Anxieties
- This course studies the rhetoric of anxiety as it informs academic and popular studies of digital media and the digital age.
- ENGL 3127 — Writing for Digital Media
- This course studies the practice and ethics of professional writing in digital media, including Facebook, Twitter, and blogging.
- ENGL 3606 — Studies in Popular Culture: Representing Artificial Intelligence
- This course studies the representations of sentient robots and other forms of artificial intelligence in popular fiction, film, and other forms of popular culture.
- ENGL 4546 — Text as Work: the Ergodic
- GEND 2047 — Gender and Social Media