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Digital Studies at Davidson

Designed to complement majors in every department and program, Digital Studies classes (DIG) bridge usual distinctions between the sciences and the humanities, between empiricism and interpretation.

Combining theory and practice, DIG courses foster liberal arts practices essential for the 21st century: procedural literacy, data awareness, network sensibilities, entrepreneurial thinking, digital citizenship, information preservation and sustainability, and the ethical use of technology.

Digital Studies courses range across three broad areas: digital creativity, which includes digital art and digital storytelling, transmedia production, and programming; digital culture, which focuses on the communities, practices, and counter-practices that digital technology has given rise to; and digital methodology, in which digital tools are used to quantitatively or qualitatively analyze, map, and share text or data.

Digital Studies Minor

The Digital Studies interdisciplinary minor provides a framework for studying the digital tools, cultures, and practices that permeate everyday life. These tools, cultures, and practices shape how we work, play, communicate and learn. Understanding the social and historical contexts of these technologies is a fundamental part of Digital Studies.

Digital & Screen Media Interdisciplinary Major

Through the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Davidson College offers a Digital & Screen Media major.

Center for Interdisciplinary Studies Digital & Screen Media Major

Through the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Davidson College offers a Digital & Screen Media major. Designed to challenge students to fashion their digital presence while simultaneously questioning emerging technologies, the major also encourages students to become sensitive consumers and producers of digital media.

Courses You Might Take

DIG 215 Death in the Digital Age

This class explores the intersection of death and technology. What happens to our digital personas when we die? How does technology change grieving? What kind of ghosts inhabit our machines? We will consider these questions and many more as we wrestle with the meaning of death in the digital age.

HIS 414 Mapping Medieval Europe

Students in this research seminar will investigate the medieval past by reading, mapping, and writing about medieval primary sources. Students will acquire basic coding skills, build geo-databases, and engage in a collective project of digital mapping of a major medieval source or collection of sources.

DIG 345 Radical Software

This course introduces students to advanced interface design and programming concepts for creating dynamic internet applications for both practical and expressive ends. The technologies and skills this course introduces allows for alternating themes of game design, data visualization, and mobile application development.

Related Academic Programs

Anthropology Art Center for Interdisciplinary Studies History Mathematics and Computer Science Psychology

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