HIST 390: The Digital Past

HIST 390-002: The Digital Past
(Spring 2026)

07:20 PM to 10:00 PM M

Horizon Hall 1010

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Section Information for Spring 2026

This course is focused on the interconnection of history and technology, specifically how twenty-first-century technologies can uncover patterns in historical sources and inform historical research practices. You’ll be learning about selected events in Virginia history with a special emphasis on the history of the Northern Virginia region, as well as how to create, analyze, and present historical data and scholarship on the web in many forms. We will use several different digital humanities-based tools and platforms, including Omeka, Voyant, Palladio, TimelineJS, StoryMapJS, and more.

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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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