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    Please see below for exciting courses being offered in the GC’s MA in Digital Humanities Program in Spring 2023. These courses are open to all graduate students.

    Best,
    Luke


    Luke Waltzer, Ph.D.
    Director, The Teaching and Learning Center
    The Graduate Center, CUNY
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    > From: “Nielsen, Jason” <jnielsen@gc.cuny.edu>
    > Subject: DH courses in spring semester
    > Date: December 7, 2022 at 3:14:19 PM EST
    > To: “Waltzer, Luke” <lwaltzer@gc.cuny.edu>
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    > Hi Luke,
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    > I am promoting some of the DH MA Program courses if you are in contact with any GC students, doctoral or master’s, that might be interested in courses at intersection of DH and pedagogy. Please feel free to forward. Enrollment is open for all courses.
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    > DHUM 74700 (55680) Critical Approaches to Educational Technology
    > In Person, Thursday, 4:15 – 6:15 PM, 3 credits, Prof. Luke Waltzer(lwaltzer@gc.cuny.edu <mailto:lwaltzer@gc.cuny.edu>)
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    > As schools at all levels integrate digital tools into teaching, learning, and administration, educational technology is an increasingly important and contested field. Too frequently educators adopt tools without sufficient concern for their impacts on students, faculty, and staff. Rhetoric in the field tends towards the techno-utopian, fueled by venture capital that’s more hungry for lucrative user data than it is interested in finding better ways to support students. These trends have been forming for well over a generation, and were accelerated by the COVID 19 pandemic.
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    > Ideally, college and university faculty, staff, and administrators will be critically engaged with developments in educational technology so that they can meaningfully advocate for the ethical deployment of tools on behalf of their institutions and their students. In this course, we will examine the history and current state of educational technology at the primary, secondary, and college and university levels, gaining a deeper understanding of how ed tech tools are conceived of and sold, procured and deployed, and rationalized and resisted. Students will gain hands-on experience with the skills and ways of making and working that educational technologists must possess if they wish to approach their work critically. We will pursue this work by drawing upon connections with the digital humanities, and by applying lessons learned in the specific contexts in which we work or aspire to work.
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    > DHUM 74500 (55684) Digital Pedagogy 2: Theory, Design, and Practice
    > Online, Monday, 6:30 – 8:30 PM, 3 credits, Prof. Shawna Brandle (shawna.brandle@gmail.com <mailto:shawna.brandle@gmail.com>)
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    > In the first digital pedagogy course, students were introduced to the history and contexts within which technology has been integrated into teaching, learning, and research at the college level. In the second core course, students will continue with that investigation as they begin to carve out space for their own work. In Spring 2023, the course will focus on opening our digital pedagogy- exploring open educational resources and open pedagogy, along with related opens: open access and open GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums).
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    > The focus of the course reading will be on the why’s, how’s, and where’s of open educational practices, with a special focus on critical digital pedagogy. By the end of the semester students will produce a polished proposal for a multimedia-based project in their discipline related to research, pedagogy, or both. The course incorporates hands-on exploration of educational uses of new-media applications and open possibilities. The course will use an open pedagogy approach to teaching and learning, beginning with a co-created syllabus wherein students will have significant say in the selection of readings and assignments.
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    > DHUM 78000 (55686) Special Topics: “Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities”
    > Online, Tuesday, 4:15 – 6:15 PM, 3 credits, Prof. Katina Rogers (katina <mailto:katina.rogers@gmail.com>.rogers@gmail.com <mailto:katina.rogers@gmail.com>)
    > https://katinarogers.com/ (https://katinarogers.com/)
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    > The formulation of Digital Humanities as a discipline over the past several decades has often been accompanied by a strong sense of optimism. The interconnection between humanities inquiry and technological methods, the emphasis on collaborative projects, and the value placed on applied and public-oriented research all give rise to a certain hope that DH might provide a different relationship to university structures, academic job market woes, and even the forces of capitalism and neoliberalism. And yet, the structures of Digital Humanities are not at all exempt from these structures. In fact, the dynamics of funding, growth, labor, and sustainability in DH offer valuable insight into the opportunities and challenges of this and other applied humanistic research.
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    > In this course, we will consider structural and interpersonal power dynamics, funding, job creation and sustainability, bias, affect, and care in relation to the emergence of Digital Humanities as a core field of university research and teaching. With an emphasis on feminist and queer of color analyses whenever possible, we will consider the historical development of the field as well as DH in the particular time and space of CUNY in 2023. We will draw on a wide range of texts and genres—from formal theoretical publications, to grant proposals, to administrative materials that reveal the tacit values of a program. Throughout, we will ask how our own educational experiences inform our work.
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    > The course will ask for a high degree of engagement and participation; in exchange, it will offer a great deal of flexibility. The semester will culminate in a final project structured by you, the student (in consultation with the instructor) to advance your own goals and research interests.
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    > More details and a draft syllabus are available at https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ (https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/)
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    >
    > DHUM 72700 (55681) The Digital Humanities for Literary Research
    > In Person, Tuesday, 6:30 – 8:30 PM, 3 credits, Prof. Erec Koch (ekoch@gc.cuny.edu <mailto:ekoch@gc.cuny.edu>)
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    > This course offers an introduction to the ways in which computational methods can fuel and enhance research in the literary humanities. Designed for MA and doctoral students in literature programs, the course will begin with an historical overview of the digital humanities. The course will focus on both theoretical knowledge and practical experience of the following digital modalities: text analysis, data visualization, and digital annotation/curation. Students will also learn about the thoughtful construction of text corpora, and much of our collective time will be devoted to exploring open source tools and platforms that will allow students to work in the three areas previously mentioned. Through critical readings as well as praxis, we will consider the ways in which those tools can enhance research, but we will also consider their limits. Students will be asked to design and complete a digital humanities research project in one of the three named areas.
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    > Best,
    > Jason
    >
    > Jason Nielsen
    > Academic Program Coordinator, M.A. Program in Digital Humanities (https://www.gc.cuny.edu/Page-Elements/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives/Masters-Programs/Digital-Humanities) & M.S. Program in Data Analysis and Visualization (https://www.gc.cuny.edu/Page-Elements/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives/Masters-Programs/Data-Analysis-and-Visualization)
    > The Graduate Center, CUNY
    > 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 5307
    > New York, NY 10016
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