Advanced Research in Digital History
COL 375
Fall 2025
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01
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| Crosslisting:
QAC 375, HIST 293 |
The digital age has changed everything and nothing about the practice of historical research. After being equipped with core concepts, terminology, and practices of historical research, students will engage and explore various applications: across moth-eaten archives, curated library collections, optical scans, and digital-born objects. We will then immediately apply this work to collectively setting up an archival relational database through the digital tool Nodegoat. Students will finish the semester by curating their own historical archive and codifying it as a relational database. Depending on the specific project and student abilities, students will also connect this work to utilizing and/or learning skills in translation, GIS, database creation, database management, and digital visualization. Successful students will be connected to the Travelers' Lab international network: an opportunity to connect, receive feedback from, and collaborate with professors at higher education institutions in the United States and around the world. Depending on the year students may also be offered conference presentation and publication opportunities. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA COL |
| Course Format: Laboratory Course | Grading Mode: Student Option |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: None |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 90% or above |
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