HIST 390: The Digital Past

HIST 390-A01: The Digital Past
(Summer 2021)

08:30 AM to 11:30 AM MWF

Online

Section Information for Summer 2021

In this course, which satisfies the University’s IT requirement, you will use digital tools to study the past. The historical focus of this course will be early American history, including the colonial era, American Revolution, and early American Republic. The class will prioritize doing history—teaching the fundamentals of information technology by applying them to practical historical problems. Over the course of the semester you will learn how to find, use, verify, interpret and analyze historical primary sources online, while also putting them in context with secondary scholarly sources. You will also discover how digital tools can be used to ask new questions, build historical arguments, analyze datasets, create visualizations, and present visual and textural work effectively online. By completing a series of small digital projects, you will not only gain valuable digital skills, but also historical thinking skills—two skill sets which will be valuable for your university work, and in your future career.

HIST 390 A01 is a distance education section that meets synchronously. Students should expect to meet on the days and time scheduled.

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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. Limited to three attempts.
Mason Core: Info Tech & Computing
Schedule Type: Lecture
Grading:
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.

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