Minor in DH
In recent years everything about the printed word has changed. What we read, where we write, and how we interact with books, stories, words, and images have profoundly altered our relationship with the cultural arts. Housed in the English department and open to students in all majors, the Digital Humanities minor focuses on the interactions of technology and the humanities.
The minor in DH creates opportunities for students to conduct original research, tell stories, and make interpretive arguments by creating digital projects. Students in the minor have developed digital archives, storymaps, interactive timelines, dynamic editions of texts, podcasts, data visualizations and sonifications, video games, and more. Students benefit from the program’s close ties with Digital Scholarship Services and the DREAM Lab at Knight Library, the graduate New Media and Culture Certificate, and the Data Science program.
Ready to dive in? To declare the minor, just fill out this brief form. Questions? Email Professor Mattie Burkert, Director of the DH minor, for more information.
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Requirements
To qualify for the minor, students must pass six courses with the grade of mid-C or better. (Grades of C- or lower, and courses graded P will not count for the minor.)
Students who declared the minor before September 2023 must take two required courses and four electives.
Students who declared the minor beginning in September 2023 must take three required courses and three electives.
Core Courses
COURSE NUMBER | COURSE TITLE | TERMS TYPICALLY OFFERED | REQUIREMENT STATUS |
ENG 250 | Literature and Digital Culture | Fall, Winter | required of all minors |
DSCI/LIB 400M | Humanities Research Data Management | Winter | required of minors who declared on or after September 16, 2023; strongly recommended for all minors |
ENG 470 | Technologies and Texts Capstone | Spring | required of all minors |
In general, students are expected to take ENG 250 towards the beginning of their path through the minor and are encouraged to save the capstone for the spring term before they graduate. Registration in ENG 470 is restricted to students with junior or senior standing who have completed ENG 250 and two additional courses towards the minor. Beginning in academic year 2024-25, Humanities Research Data Management will become an additional prerequisite for the capstone.
Electives
Choose from the list of pre-approved courses or apply to receive credit for alternative electives. Your electives must come from at least two different departments and at least two electives must be at the upper division (300/400) level.
Always refer to the UO course catalog for a term-by-term listing of course offerings, and be sure to check with the Director of the minor if you have any questions about discrepancies between the catalog and this site.
Lower-division (choose up to two)
- ART 101: Understanding Contemporary Art
- CINE 230: Remix Cultures
- CS 110: Fluency with Information Technology
- CS 111: Introduction to Web Programming
- CS 122: Introduction to Programming and Problem Solving
- CIS 210: Computer Science I
- DSCI 101: Foundations of Data Science I
- DSCI 102: Foundations of Data Science II
- ENG/CINE 110M: Introduction to Film and Media
- ENG/CINE 260M: Media Aesthetics
- GEOG 181: Our Digital Earth
- GEOG 281: The World and Big Data
- J 201: Media and Society
- MUS 227: Elements of Electronic Music
- PHIL 123: Internet, Society, and Philosophy
- PHIL 223: Data Ethics
Upper-Division (choose at least two)
- CINE 365: Digital Cinema
- DSCI/LIB 400M: Humanities Research Data Management
- ENG 485: Television Studies
- ENG/CINE 381M: Film, Media, Culture
- ENG/CINE 486M: New Media and Digital Culture
- GEOG 343: Society, Culture, and Place
- GEOG 481: GIS Science I
- GEOG 482: GIS Science II
- GEOG 498: Geospatial Project Design
- J 387: Media History
- MUS 479: Data Sonification
- PS 349: Mass Media and American Politics
- PS 350: Politics and Film
- RUSS 404: Internship
- SOC 317: Sociology of Mass Media
- WGS 331: Science, Technology, and Gender
Alternative Electives
In addition to the courses listed above, independent studies or alternate courses can be submitted to the director of the DH minor for approval. Courses that have been counted towards the minor in the past have included:
- ARTD 360: Digital Imaging
- CS 123: Data Science
- CS 199: Special Studies in Computer Science
- ENG 380: Film, Media, History
- ENG 410: Digital Storytelling
- ENG 481: Theories of the Moving Image
- GEOG 490: Topics in GIS
- HC 207H TOPIC: Monsters and Machines
- HC 444 CPSW: Communicating for Social Justice
- ITAL 407/507: Re-reading Petrarch’s Canzoniere in the Digital Era
- J 412: TOPIC: Mobile Media
- LIB 410: TOPIC: Humanities Research Data Management
- MUS 447: Digital Audio and Sound Design
The alternative elective petition process is designed to ensure that the minor is flexible enough to encompass new and emerging areas of research and teaching before they have time to be formalized in the curriculum, as well as to account for one-off topics courses, classes taught by visiting faculty members, etc. Although students are permitted to count courses from their other degree programs towards the minor, the alternative elective option is not intended to create a mechanism for double-counting courses that you already took or need to take to complete your major. Students should therefore be prepared make a clear case for the relevance of the alternative elective course to the learning objectives of the Minor in Digital Humanities and the student’s own academic goals in pursuing the minor.
To begin the process of requesting alternative elective credit, students should complete a petition form and schedule an advising appointment with the Director of the Minor. DH faculty members will review petitions with an eye to ensuring that students are taking a variety of coursework that will help prepare them for the demands of ENG 470, the DH Capstone. Petitions may take up to one full academic quarter to review and will not be reviewed during summer term. Note, however, that approved petitions can be implemented retroactively if the course has already concluded at the time of approval.