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Zoe Genevieve LeBlanc

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Primary Courses

Introduction to Digital History

Introduction to Data and Social Context

Additional Potential Courses

Digital Methods for Public History

Course Description:

A digital history course designed as a follow-up one to either introduction to digital history or a public history course. The course will cover some readings in public history; collections as data; and digital archives, but is primarily designed to introduce students to the foundations of databases, APIs, and building digital web exhibits. Students will gain a foundational understanding of code and how the web works (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL). This course could be taught collaboratively with DH and special collections librarians, since the final project will be collectively build a prototype of a digital public history project (potentially with collections from Virginia Tech).

Example Readings:

• “The Transnational and The Text-Searchable: Digitized Sources and The Shadows They Cast” (Lara Putnam; American Historical Review Volume 121.2; April 2016)
• “Indigeneous Knowledge Systems and Mukurtu CMS” (Kim Christen; The Design for Diversity Learning Toolkit; October 2018)
• “Colonial Violence and the Postcolonial Digital Archive” (Roopika Risam, New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy, 2019)

Data Storytelling

Course Description:

An interdisciplinary course drawing from data journalism, digital history, and computational social science to introduce students to blending narratives with data. This course will pair readings in the history of data visualization and information graphics with the fundamentals of JavaScript, D3, and interactive storytelling. This course could be taught similar to an intensive writing course (that is defined through methods) or focus in on a particular historical subfield. Ideally, students will gain enough experience over the course of the semester to produce an initial data storytelling project.

Example Readings:

• Daniels, M. (2017, September). The words rappers use (and don’t use). The Pudding. https://pudding.cool/2017/09/hip-hop-words
• Ben Schmidt, "Two Volumes: the lessons of Time on the Cross" 2019 http://benschmidt.org/post/2019-12-05-totc/2019-aha/