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Faculty Learning Cohort
Understanding Digital
Humanities Spring/Fall 2016
Contact Information
Facilitator: Beth Bensen Dates: January 20 (BH 109), February
17, March 30, April 13 Times: 2:00 4:00 p.m. Where: TBA Email:
[email protected] Office: PRC, BH, Room 220H Office Phone:
804.523.5754 Readings o Several PDFs linked in FLC Blackboard site.
o Spring 2016: Digital Humanities; Burdick, Drucker, Lunenfeld,
Presner, Schnapp (purchased
with FLC funds) o Spring 2016: Understanding Digital Humanities;
David Berry (ed.) (purchased with FLC
funds) o Fall 2016: Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Practices,
Princiiples and Politics: Brett Hirsch
(ed). (purchased with FLC funds)
WordPress Blog Site
o FLC participants will create individual WordPress blog
accounts. o Sign up at the following URL: https://wordpress.com/ o
Further instructions provided during January 20 meeting
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Bensen 2 FLC Digital Humanities
FLC Description
This FLC will focus first on defining and understanding Digital
Humanities and how humans gain knowledge and make meaning of
information in a digitally complex academic environment. Second,
and after defining Digital Humanities, this FLC will provide a
means for faculty participants to develop a discipline-specific
curriculum that encourages the implementation of digital
technologies in their pedagogy.
The overall goals for this FLC are to develop a sense of what
the theories and methods of Digital Humanities are in a community
college setting and develop a pedagogy that integrates digital
technologies. By the end of the FLC, faculty participants will
accomplish the following:
Demonstrate an understanding of current theories and practices
pertaining to Digital Humanities
Define Digital Humanities for a community college setting as it
applies to specific disciplines
Develop a discipline-specific curriculum that integrates digital
technologies Develop a discipline-specific pedagogy that integrates
digital technologies
Spring 2016 will focus on a number of assigned theoretical and
practical readings to assist with defining Digital Humanities in
order to understand what it means in the twenty-first century.
Spring 2016 will also begin working toward developing
discipline-specific pedagogies. Fall 2016 will continue developing
discipline-specific curricula to encourage faculty participants to
develop a pedagogical approach that promotes twenty-first century
literacy practices to include digital and multimodal technologies.
Participants will adapt and put into practice theories learned and
discussed in the Spring 2016 semester to translate into a pedagogy
that relates well to Digital Humanities in a community college
setting. Participation: In order to ensure an engaging FLC, I
encourage all participants to attend each meeting during both the
spring and fall semesters. The success of this FLC will largely
depend on what each participant contributes to discussions and what
each participant produces as a result of discussions and readings.
Assignments:
WordPress Blog Site Reflective Reading Responses (in blog
site)
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Bensen 3 FLC Digital Humanities
Chapter Presentation (Understanding Digital Humanities) One unit
or assignment that integrates pedagogical concepts discussed in
FLC
Calendar/Schedule of Assignments (This schedule is subject to
change.)
Week/Date
Readings Assignments
W Jan 20
Raley, Digital Humanities for the Next Five Minutes Hunter, The
Digital Humanities and Democracy Snow, Two Cultures
(Articles are linked in Readings folder in BB)
Create WordPress Blog Site
WordPress About Page WordPress Reading
Response
W Feb 17
Burdick et al, Digital Humanities (pp. 3-71)
Select chapter for presentation on Apr 13
WordPress Reading Response
W Mar 30 Burdick et al, Digital Humanities (pp. 75-135)
WordPress Reading Response
W Apr 13
Berry, Understanding Digital Humanities (select chapters)
In-class presentation on chapter selected
Post presentation in WordPress site
Fall 2016 Schedule Forthcoming
