As an English major, you design your own concentration — a program of study based on your areas of interest, organized around a controlling theme or topic — with the help of your advisor. Below are some recommendations for students interested in this area.
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Recommended Courses
- ENGL 277: Being Human in a Digital Age
- ENGL 278: Introduction to Humanities Computing
- ENGL 279: Digital Literary Analysis
- ENGL 375: Theorizing the Digital
- ENGL 378: Literary Studies in the Digital Age
- ENGL 472: Digital Humanities Practicum
- ENGL 477: Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities
- ENGL 478: Digital Archives and Editions
Recommended Experiences
- Collaborate with the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH)
- Take part in the Digital Scholarship Incubator
- Join the Digital Humanities Student Association
- Attend the Nebraska Forum on Digital Humanities
- Intern or serve as a UCARE student with Livingstone Online, the Walt Whitman Archive, the Willa Cather
- Archive, or other department-led projects
- Design and develop your own DH project using Minimal Computing technologies
Recommended Reading
- Digital Humanities Now
- Social Justice and the Digital Humanities
- The Routledge Companion to Media Studies and Digital Humanities, ed. By Jentry Sayers, 2018
- Making Things and Drawing Boundaries, ed. by J. Sayers, 2018
- Debates in the Digital Humanities, ed, by M.K. Gold & L.F. Klein, 2016
- A New Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. by S. Schreibman, R. Siemens, J. Unsworth, 2016
- Code Academy
Projects
- Austen Said: Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novel
- The Charles Chesnutt Digital Archive
- Chicana por mi Raza
- Civil War Washington
- Colored Conventions
- The George Eliot Archive
- Livingstone Online: Illuminating Imperial Exploration
- Plateau Peoples' Web Portal
- South Asian American Digital Archive
- The Tar Baby and the Tomahawk: Race and Ethnic Images in American Children's Literature, 1880-1939
- Torn Apart / Separados
- Walt Whitman Archive
- The Willa Cather Archive
Career Opportunities
- Web development
- Software and game development
- Technology development
- Journalism
- Publishing
- Literary studies
- Library studies
- Museum studies
A background in digital humanities can support publication and dissemination in many other fields.