Encouraging students think about the impact advancements in digital technology have on the future of scholarship from the moment they enter the Graduate Center, the Digital Praxis Seminar is a year-long sequence of two three-credit courses that familiarize students with a variety of digital tools and methods through lectures offered by high-profile scholars and technologists, hands-on workshops, and collaborative projects. Students enrolled in the two-course sequence will complete their first year at the GC having been introduced to a broad range of ways to critically evaluate and incorporate digital technologies in their academic research and teaching. In addition, they will have explored a particular area of digital scholarship and/or pedagogy of interest to them, produced a digital project in collaboration with fellow students, and established a digital portfolio that can be used to display their work. The two connected three-credit courses will be offered during the Fall and Spring semesters as MALS classes for master’s students and Interdisciplinary Studies courses for doctoral students.
The syllabus for the course can be found at cuny.is/dps17.
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Tom, we’ve talked a bit about your project ideas, and there’s quite a bit to go on with even a small collection of words here. If I haven’t already, I’d be remiss not to mention Tanya Clement’s work with Gertrude Stein (an example can be found here: http://tanyaclement.org/2012/01/12/sounding-steins-texts-by-using-digital-tools-for-distant-listening/). Her dissertation, I believe is available through the University of Maryland, and could be quite instructive for you. Looking forward to next steps!
Thanks for commenting, Lisa! I’ve heard about Tanya Clement before, and this looks a great place to start building out my project a bit more.