HIST 390: The Digital Past

HIST 390-001: The Digital Past
(Spring 2026)

12:00 PM to 01:15 PM TR

Horizon Hall 3014

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Section Information for Spring 2026

This course, focused on silence and invisibility in the history, uses digital tools to investigate, discover, and uncover stories of people, places, and material objects that are difficult to reconstruct using traditional historical methods. Students can expect to learn research methods, navigate archives, and construct arguments using a digital toolkit to tell these stories of the invisible. Using a variety of tools, including Omeka, TimelineJS, and mapping, students will learn how to create dynamic, engaging, argument-driven historical essays and projects. This course satisfies the University’s IT requirement.

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

Teaches the fundamentals of information technology within the context of a history course. Students learn fundamentals and skills as well as how our society became so enamored of and dependent on these knowledge and information tools. Understanding a new technology requires understanding how new technologies transform the societies that embrace them. Emphasizes the use of free and open-source software whenever possible. Offered by History & Art History. Limited to three attempts.
Mason Core: Mason Core, Info Tech & Computing
Schedule Type: Lecture
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This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.

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