What do an interactive narrative designed to help girls learn leadership skills; digital collections of the history, experiences, and stories of Central Florida; generative AI performer avatars; and a project using Alice in Wonderland as a metaphor for experiencing media have in common? They’re all examples of Digital Humanities (DH).
The Digital Humanities minor at UCF spans fields such as literature, rhetoric, technical communication, philosophy, public history and cultural and textual studies, exploring how they can be infused with digital methods and practices in coding, game design and archiving. DH includes both humanistic ways of looking at digital texts (from social media to video games, to Geographical Information Systems maps) and digital ways of looking at humanistic texts (such as data mining the words used in novels, digitally archiving history and visualizing characters reoccurring across cultural traditions).
Digital Humanities cultivates a variety of literacies, from traditional notions of writing to computational and critical AI literacy (using programming, generative artificial intelligence and new media installations as inventive methods for production, critique and analysis). DH students are both scholars and makers. They combine the big questions of the humanities with technological tools that include code, artificial intelligence, images, image-text, databases and languages, and in doing so advance the present (and future) of creating and thinking across the humanities.
Career Opportunities
- Cultural Data Analyst
- Digital Archivist
- Digital Editor
- Digital Preservation Specialist
- Museum/Heritage Technologist
- Transmedia Storyteller
- User Experience Designer
