This upcoming Fall 2014, Professor Nicolas Tackett, ACLS Digital Innovation Fellow, will lead a research seminar on digital approaches to history. This course is open to undergraduate and graduate students from all disciplines. This will be a fantastic opportunity to familiarize yourself with digital methodologies in history and other disciplines and incoporate digital approaches to your own research interests. Students with this course will also receive technology consulting assistance with Research IT. Please feel free to contact Professor Nicolas Tackett at tackett@berkeley.edu for questions or if you are interested in the course. For more information, see the course information below:
Digital Approaches to History, History 285U Section 002, Fall 2014
204 Dwinelle | Fridays 10AM-12PM | CCN 39972 | Units 4
Digital Approaches to History. This seminar will explore digital approaches to history, with an emphasis on application. Rather than learning how to use technologies, we will focus on how technologies can help historians resolve specific historical questions. There will be no assigned weekly readings. However, each week, one or two students will present to the seminar's participants a book (or set of articles) that makes interesting use of digital tools to resolve a historical problem; we will then discuss together the possible portability of the tools to other fields and other questions. Over the course of the semester, each student will be responsible for one or two presentations, as well as a substantial seminar paper. Because this seminar requires participants from a number of different fields in order to be useful, the seminar may be cancelled if there is insufficient enrollment as of mid July.