The DH Practicum provides students with a methodological and epistemological framework for the research processes undertaken by digital humanists. Over the course of the semester, students develop a series of proposals: for the identification of research materials and the digital transformation of those materials; for undertaking independent technical learning and for teaching it in a DH workshop; for the development of a portfolio website; and for developing a shared workflow for collaborative projects. Practicum coursework focuses on enabling students to apply generalized digital and computational approaches to their specific departmental and disciplinary expectations.

The readings for the course are important but not heavy. We will pair our proposal development and technical learning with texts drawn from STS, information theory, critical AI theory, and, most importantly, examples of DH methods drawn from published scholarship.

Graduate readings course on the history of housing, real estate, and racial inequality in the 20th and 21st century US.

The discipline of anthropology has made significant contributions to the study of Islam. Yet far too rarely has it been asked, how might we take Islamic traditions' own ways of knowing not merely as objects of inquiry, but as intellectual partners? This course will engage readings in ethnography & critical theory that examine diverse expressions of Islam as it intervenes into debates over what it means to be human in the world.

This is a core course that surveys key texts in Media Studies. The course takes a historical approach to the development of the field, but also surveys the various developments in the social sciences, the humanities, and film studies relevant to the interdisciplinary study of media.

MUSI 7559 is about circulation, media, memory, and performance across time, rather than a single historical moment. It begins with the eighteenth-century collection of Naval Documents of the American Revolution, hosted by the Center for Digital Editing at UVA. Since the course follows the afterlives and modern reinterpretations of these songs, and welcomes projects shaped by students’ own interests and disciplinary backgrounds, it opens naturally onto fields like popular culture, global studies, performance studies, archives, and public humanities. 

Students will create digital exhibits or annotated archival editions, with opportunities for spatial or geospatial work by tracing how songs, ships, and stories moved across oceans and empires. 

** No prior musical training or language expertise is required.