Digital Humanities Courses

In addition to these officially listed classes, you may also petition to count other courses toward the minor or graduate certificate, provided they have a strong digital component. For more information, please email Miriam Posner at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Lower Division (one required): Each of these classes introduces students to the use of digital tools and methodologies to examine complex cultural, social, and historical dynamics. Minors are strongly encouraged to take either INF STD 20 or 30.

Fall 2012	Winter 2013	Spring 2013	Summer 2013	Course
●				ANNEA 10W Jerusalem, the Holy City
●				ARCH&UD 10A History of Architecture and Urban Design: Prehistory to Mannerism.
●				CLASSIC 10 Discovering Greeks
	●			CLASSIC 20 Discovering Romans
●				CLASSIC 42 Cinema and Ancient World
				COM LIT 19 Fiat Lux Freshman Seminars: Twitter, Social Media, and Revolution¹
				COMPTING 3 Introduction to Computing for Social Sciences and Humanities
				DESMA 11A Design History I: The 4th Wave: Media Histories 1850‐2050
				GERMAN 61A Berlin: Modern Metropolis (HyperCities)
		●		INF STUDIES 20 Introduction to Information Studies
	●			INF STUDIES 30 Internet and Society

Upper Division (minors must take DH 101, 194, 195 or 196 and 198 or 199, as well as three other upper-division electives)

Fall 2012	Winter 2013	Spring 2013	Summer 2013	Course
•				DGT HUM 101 Introduction to Digital Humanities (required)
	●			DGT HUM 150 Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities: Social Media Analytics (description)
	●			DGT HUM 194 Digital Humanities Research Group Seminar (required)
●	●	●		DGT HUM 195/196 Research Internship/Apprenticeship in Digital Humanities (required)
		●		DGT HUM 198/199 Capstone Research in Digital Humanities (required) Five sections in spring 2013: Virtual Worlds, with Professor Chris Johanson; Visualizing Massive Data Related to the Holocaust, with Professors Todd Presner and David Shepard; Designing a Database of Ancient Magic, with Professors Miriam Posner and Jacco Dieleman; UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, with Willeke Wendrich; HyperCities/Mapping Jewish L.A., with Professors Todd Presner and Karen Wilson. These are contract courses and thus are not listed in the schedule of classes. Sign up by corresponding with the respective instructors. More information here.
				ANNEA M101C (formerly CM177)/ART HIST M101C (formerly M177), The Ancient Egyptian Temple and the City of Thebes
		●		ANNEA M105/ANTHRO M119E Archeology of Egypt and Sudan
				ANNEA 125A Digital Cultural Mapping Core Course A: Place, Time, and Digital World
				ANNEA M125B / ARCH&UD M125B Digital Cultural Mapping Core Course B: Google Earth, GIS, Hypercities, and Timelines
				ANNEA M125C / ARCH&UD M125C Digital Cultural Mapping Core Course C: Summer Research
	●			ANNEA 162 Archaeology of Ancient Israel
	●			ANNEA C165 Egyptian Archaeology
	●			ANNEA CM169 Introduction to Archaeological Sciences
				APP LING C115B Computer-Enhanced Language Teaching and Learning
				ARCH&UD 132 Domestic Architecture: Critical History
		●		ARMENIAN C153 Art, Politics and Nationalism
				ART HIST 119C Contemporary Arts of Africa
				ART HIST 119D Architecture and Urbanism in Africa
				CLASSIC 164 Spectacle Entertainments of Ancient Rome
		●		CLASSIC 166B Roman Religion
	●			CHIN M183 / ANTHRO M116S Archaeological Landscape of China
	●	●		DESMA 104 Design and Society - Society and Design
				ENGLISH 109 Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literature (Electronic Literature Topics)
				HISTORY 188 Special Courses: The Digital in History
				IS 189 Seminar: Special Issues in Information Studies (Cultural, Social and Global Media)
	●			KOREAN 183 Korean Folklore
				KOREAN 187 Popular and Folk Religion in Korea
				RUSSIAN 121 Russian Pop Culture
				RUSSIAN 129 Animation and Music Video
				SCAND C133 Saga
	●			SCAND C171 Intro to Scandinavian Folklore
				SOC GEN 131 Social and Historical Study of Information, Software and Networks
	●			SOC GEN 175 Current Directions in Social and Historical Study of Science
•				SPAN 150 Topics in Modern Studies (as topics apply)
•				SPAN 170 Topics in Media, Interdisciplinary and Transhistorical Studies (offered through UCLA in Barcelona Program)
				URBAN PL 129 Spatial Look at Urbanization
•				URBAN PL 141 Planning for Minority Communities

Graduate Courses

Fall 2012	Winter 2013	Spring 2013	Summer 2013	Course
	●			ARCH & UD 291 Theory of Architectural Programming (Cuff)
		●		ART HIST C203A Museum Studies
	●			DESMA 269 Design \| Media Arts Grad Seminar (Lunenfeld)
●				DGT HUM 201 Introduction to Digital Humanities (Posner)
		●		DGT HUM 250 Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities: The Great Unreading (description)
		●		DGT HUM 299 Capstone Research in Digital Humanities (required) Five sections in spring 2013: Virtual Worlds, with Professor Chris Johanson; Visualizing Massive Data Related to the Holocaust, with Professors Todd Presner and David Shepard; Designing a Database of Ancient Magic, with Professors Miriam Posner and Jacco Dieleman; UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, with Willeke Wendrich; HyperCities/Mapping Jewish L.A., with Professors Todd Presner and Karen Wilson. More information here.
		●		INF STD 219C-2 Global Media and Information
		●		FILM TV 224 Computer-Film Study
	●			FILM TV 225 Video Game Theory (Mamber)
		●		INF STUD 201 Ethics & Diversity & Change (Furner)
				INF STUD M253 Knowledge Representation (Taira)
	●			INF STD 245 Information Access (Richardson)
	●			INF STD 227 Information Studies in Culturally Diverse Communities (Srinivasan)
	●			INF STD 270 Seminar: Intro to Information Studies (Blanchette)
	●			INF STD 272 Computer-Human Interaction (Lievrouw)
	●			INF STD 279 Information Architecture (Boyden)
	●			INF STD 291B Ph.D. Seminar: STS (Blanchette)
		●		PUB POLICY M224B Advanced Geographic Information Systems (Kawano)
	●			URB PLAN M206A Intro to Geographic Information Systems (Estrada and Kawano)

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