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Course Number: HIST 410 Credits: 4 Instructor: Prof. Ocean Howell CRN: 12524 Class Meetings: MW 12:00-13:20

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In this course students will build a website analyzing a place of their choosing.  Options include a city, forest lands, agricultural lands, a transportation corridor, a national border, or any other place that has been extensively mapped.  Students will use Professor Howell’s beta software, “Mapping Power,” ...

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Course Number: ENG 399 Credits: 2* Instructor: Prof. Gordon Sayre CRN: 16519 Class Meetings: TR 10:00-11:20 *Note: DH minors are required to complete 12 credits of required courses and 12 credits of electives.

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This course is designed for undergraduates who are interested in writing an honors thesis in English or other humanities majors, are preparing for graduate programs, or simply want to enhance their skills for upper-division ...

Mural by artist Esteban Steffensen in Springfield, Oregon

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In “Writing the Latino History of Eugene & Lane County” we will: Learn to conduct original historical research on local Latino history over the past 100 years Learn to use WordPress and other digital tools to present your research Work with a local teacher to help bring this history to high school students Research and write in your choice of English, Spanish, or a combination of ...

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Course Number: LIB400M/DSCI 400M Instructor: Kate Thornhill Day and Time: Mondays & Wednesdays 10am-11:50 am Location: 240B MCK CRN: 26155, 26154 Download the flyer or a past syllabus

Who should take this course?

While required for Digital Humanities minors and the Data Science: Cultural Analytics concentration, this is an excellent course for any undergraduate student who wants to gain hands-on experience creating thematic digital research ...

Are you one of millions of people interested in hiking, running, kayaking, rafting, surfing, skateboarding, bike touring or mountain biking? These and related sports, sometimes called ‘lifestyle sports,’ have spawned large industries and target groups. The development of these leisure activities since the late 1800s coincides with changing ideas about nature, wilderness, and the utility of ’play’. What has emerged are a variety of individualized pursuits and recreational sports that ...

This class explores how the ancient practice of storytelling is adapting to our digital world. “Digital storytelling” is a broad term that can refer to a range of new media narrative forms, including hypertext fiction, interactive data visualizations, dynamic maps and timelines, podcasts, video games, and augmented reality experiences. Yet these novel ways of telling stories all draw on much older principles and conventions. Together, we will read and study multimedia narrative texts ...

What are the new forms of ethical, social and political interaction that the Internet enables? What new ways of knowing and practices of scientific research emerge in an Internet-focused context? What old forms does it render obsolete, problematic, or perhaps even impossible? This course focuses primarily on engaging some of the most pressing social, ethical and political problems posed by the Internet. The course will also cover some of the epistemological, metaphysical, and ontological ...

Today’s world is driven by data. Political, economical, and environmental decision making is increasingly based on larger data sets, and advertisers and services like Google personalize what you see and are offered based on data about you and “customers like you.” Moreover, social media allow the public to directly participate in decision making, disaster reporting, and humanitarian interventions. In order to do this, massive amounts of data need to be collected, separated into relevant ...