The course will be centered on four digital history projects, all of which are related to making local resources available online. These projects will include: creating a site related to Mary Washington College experiences during World War II (WW2); a digital history of UMW in the Digital Age(DA); building out a digitized collection of scrapbooks from Mary Washington students, faculty, staff, and organizations over the years(SB); and crafting of place-based stories of campus history, brought to life through a variety of archival sources and modern video and audio tools(PB).
The structure of the class is such that we’ll spend the first four weeks looking at examples of Digital History/Digital Humanities/Digital Liberal Arts and being introduced to a “digital toolbox” from which you and your group will chose as you decide on the shape of your project. Then you and your group will propose a contract for the project. Once I approve that contract, you’ll work on that the rest of the semester.