My part of the Future of Undergraduates Digital Humanities Panel

1. Surveying
Digital
Humani1es
at
Small
Liberal
Arts
Colleges
Rebecca
Frost
Davis
Director
of
Instruc1onal
and
Emerging
Technology
St.
Edward’s
University

2. NITLE
Digital
Humani1es
Ini1a1ve
• Finding
pockets
of
innova1on
• Connec1ng
into
coherent,
collabora1ve
effort
• Advance
the
development
of
digital
humani1es
at
liberal
arts
colleges
• Promote
the
valuable
contribu1ons
these
colleges
make
to
and
within
the
broader
digital
humani1es
movement

3. DH
and
Liberal
Educa1on
Alexander
&
Davis.
“Should
Liberal
Arts
Campuses
Do
Digital
Humani8es?
Process
and
Products
in
the
Small
College
World.”
In
Debates
in
the
Digital
Humani0es,
ed.
MaPhew
K.
Gold.
Minneapolis:
University
of
Minnesota
Press,
2012.

5. Defining
Liberal
Educa1on
• Small,
residen1al,
private,
bachelors
gran1ng
college
• Study
of
the
liberal
arts
and
sciences
• Prepara1on
&
skills
for
democra1c
ci1zenship
• Pedagogical
methodology
&
prac1ces
-­‐-­‐Jo
Ellen
Parker,
“What’s
So
Liberal
About
Higher
Ed?”
Academic
Commons

6. High
Impact
Prac1ces
(Kuh)
• First-­‐Year
Seminars
and
Experiences
• Common
Intellectual
Experience
• Learning
Communi1es
• Wri1ng-­‐Intensive
Courses
• Collabora1ve
Assignments
and
Projects
• Undergraduate
Research
• Diversity/Global
Learning
• Service
Learning,
Community-­‐Based
Learning
• Internships
• Capstone
Courses
and
Projects

7. NITLE
Survey
of
Digital
Humani1es
at
Liberal
Arts
Colleges
• AY
2012-­‐2013:
survey
&
interviews
• Current
results
– 32
ins1tu1ons
– 50
responses
• Ques1ons
– Ac1vi1es
– Support
– curriculum
faculty
library
administrator
IT
museum

8. Why
DH?
(individual)
0%# 5%# 10%# 15%# 20%# 25%# 30%#
future#scholarship#
individual#interest#
digital#literacy#
pedagogy#
collab;undergrad;research#
student#engagement#
public#mission#
liberal#educa=on#
student#marketability#
online#learning#
recrui=ng#

9. Ins1tu1onal
Structure
Center&
Ini)a)ve&
Group&
Projects&
None&

10. Curricular
Structure
• Of
32
ins1tu1ons
surveyed:
– 1
has
a
major,
minor,
or
program
– 4
have
a
digital
humani1es
course,
e.g.,
Introduc1on
to
Digital
Humani1es
– 23
have
courses
with
some
Digital
Humani1es

11. Avenues
to
Engage
Undergrads
in
Digital
Humani1es
0%# 10%# 20%# 30%# 40%# 50%# 60%# 70%#
Coursework#
Undergrad#Research#
Thesis/Project#
Work#
Internship#

12. What’s
in
a
Name?
• Digital
Humani1es
• Digital
Scholarship
(Occidental
College)
• Digital
Studies
(Davidson
College)
• Digital
Pedagogy
(Whiher
College)
• Digital
Liberal
Arts
(Great
Lakes
College
Associa1on)