AP/HUMA4908 6.0 A: Senior Digital Humanities Project
Offered by: HUMA
Session
Fall 2023
Status
Cancelled: Course Delivery
Term
Y
Format
SEMR
Calendar Description / Prerequisite / Co-Requisite
The course provides the opportunity to conceive and create a substantive digital humanities-related project that critically interrogates a research topic of personal interest focused on humans and human communities. In the process, students critique the affordances of digital humanities tools, develop an appropriate research question, design and manage a multimedia project and present their findings in a public, year-end event.
Course Start Up
Course Websites hosted on York's "eClass" are accessible to students during the first week of the term. It takes two business days from the time of your enrolment to access your course website. Course materials begin to be released on the course website during the first week. To log in to your eClass course visit the York U eClass Portal and login with your Student Passport York Account. If you are creating and participating in Zoom meetings you may also go directly to the York U Zoom Portal.
For further course Start Up details, review the Getting Started webpage.
For IT support, students may contact University Information Technology Client Services via askit@yorku.ca or (416) 736-5800. Please also visit Students Getting Started UIT or the Getting Help - UIT webpages.
The course provides the opportunity to conceive and create a substantive digital humanities-related project that critically interrogates a research topic of personal interest focused on humans and human communities. In the process, students critique the affordances of digital humanities tools, develop an appropriate research question, design and manage a multimedia project and present their findings in a public, year-end event.
Students are not expected to have related experience prior to the course but should bring a degree of confidence in their ability to learn new technologies, with support, and a basic understanding of the humanities acquired by taking at least one 6.0 Humanities or Culture & Expression course previously.
NO prior technical knowledge is required or expected - simply an open and curious attitude.
- Academic Honesty
- Student Rights and Responsibilities
- Religious Observance
- Grading Scheme and Feedback
- 20% Rule
No examinations or tests collectively worth more than 20% of the final grade in a course will be given during the final 14 calendar days of classes in a term. The exceptions to the rule are classes which regularly meet Friday evenings or on Saturday and/or Sunday at any time, and courses offered in the compressed summer terms. - Academic Accommodation for Students with Disabilities
