The Digital Studies Community (Honors College Community)
The Digital Studies Community is sponsored by the Honors College and the Digital Studies Center. The community is designed to foster a collaborative community of students interested in digital studies. A limited number of scholarships will be available to applicants.
The Digital Studies Center is an academic center for research and education. The Center helps kick-start, facilitate, support, and promote projects that are made possible by the convergence of digital technologies with the humanities as well as the natural and social sciences. The nature of digital studies and the Center is one of collaboration, so it is our goal to bring faculty and students together across disciplines to work side-by-side. Projects will result in theoretical, critical, and practical forms. Furthermore, the Digital Studies Center will offer programming in the form of workshops, lectures, and project presentations.
One of the primary functions of the DSC is offering an undergraduate certificate in Digital Humanities to Rutgers-Camden Students.
What is Digital Humanities?
It seems appropriate here to turn to the contemporary and often controversial information source: Wikipedia. The Digital Humanities community has put much effort into creating and updating Wikipedia as a valuable resource. Many of the DH community have contributed to Wikipedia’s working definition of Digital Humanities:
“The digital humanities, also known as humanities computing, is a field of study, research, teaching, and invention concerned with the intersection of computing and the disciplines of the humanities. It is methodological by nature and interdisciplinary in scope. It involves investigation, analysis, synthesis and presentation of information in electronic form. It studies how these media affect the disciplines in which they are used, and what these disciplines have to contribute to our knowledge of computing.”
Digital Studies Community Requirements
- Participation in the Digital Studies Certificate program.
- Attendance at DSC Workshops, lectures, and seminars during the Fall and Spring.
- Submission of a Digital Humanities project to the students’ project page of the DSC website before graduation.