DGT HUM 201Introduction to Digital Humanities
Digital Humanities · 5 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Introduction to field of digital humanities. Historical overview of field from its beginning in post-World War II era to present, highlighting major intellectual problems, disciplinary paradigms, and institutional challenges that are posed by digital humanities. Examination of major epistemological, methodological, technological, and institutional challenges posed by digital humanities through number of specific projects that address fundamental problems in creating, interpreting, preserving, and transmitting human cultural record. How digital technologies and tools, ranging from map visualizations and modeling environments to database structures and interface design, are arguments that make certain assumptions about, and even transform, objects of study.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Winter 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
DGT HUM 201
- DGT HUM 250Special Topics in Digital Humanities
- DGT HUM 299Special Projects in Digital Humanities
2 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 2 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.