Unit DIGITAL HUMANITIES
- Course
- Humanities
- Study-unit Code
- A000515
- Curriculum
- Moderno
- Teacher
- Andrea Capaccioni
- Teachers
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- Andrea Capaccioni
- Hours
- 36 ore - Andrea Capaccioni
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2018
- Offered
- 2019/20
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- M-STO/08
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The course offers an introduction to Digital Humanities. The course also intends to deepen some aspects of the Internet as a means of learning.
- Reference texts
- Jeffrey Schnapp, Digital humanities. Meet the media guru, Milano, EGEA, 2015; Andrea Capaccioni (a cura di), Ricerche bibliografiche. Banche dati e biblioteche in Rete, Maggioli editore, 2018, (nuova edizione, è disponibile anche l'ebook). Further bibliographic information will be provided in class.
- Educational objectives
- The course offers an introduction to Digital Humanities. In the Internet age, the Humanistic disciplines are undergoing a profound rethinking. However, digital technologies are not just tools to support research and teaching but they offer the opportunity to develop new approaches. The course also intends to deepen some aspects of the Internet as a means of learning.
- Prerequisites
- In order to be able to understand how to tackle the course, students must have notions of general culture; these are notions that the student should have already aquired in his/her school curriculum.
- Teaching methods
- The course is organized as follows: lectures on all course's topics; seminars and workshops.
- Other information
- Please see the website:
. For further information please contact the professor. - Learning verification modality
- The exam includes the final oral test consisting of a discussion-interview on the topics discussed during the course and examined in depth through recommended texts. The test aims at assuring the level of knowledge and understanding, as well as synthesis, achieved by the student. Moreover, this interview will verify that the student is able to communicate, with method, propriety of language on the performance of the test itself and begins, as a rule, with a subject of the student's choice in order to put him at ease.
- Extended program
- The course offers an introduction to Digital Humanities. In the Internet age, the Humanistic disciplines are undergoing a profound rethinking. However, digital technologies are not just tools to support research and teaching but they offer the opportunity to develop new approaches. The course also intends to deepen some aspects of the Internet as a means of learning.