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  • Mark Samplesamplereality
    Nov 2, 2023, 9:16 PM

    There's so much doom and gloom about the humanities, so here's a counter-example.

    Course registrations for the spring semester are over, and there is not a single seat left in all of my department. A department that is squarely an arts & humanities department.

    What's my department? Digital Studies. We're comprised of a historian, a digital artist, an indie game developer, a media studies scholar, and me, who started off as a literary scholar.

    What do we teach? Next semester among our offerings are: Intro and Advanced Digital Art; Gender & Technology; Technology & Wisdom; Humanities Startup; Critical AI Studies; and more. Other courses we typically offer are Death in the Digital Age; Radical Web Design; Intro to Game Studies; Electronic Literature; Surveillance Culture; Hacking, Remixing, & Design; & so much more.

    Students still want the humanities, and they still want to create.

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  • Guitarsophistjredlund@social.linux.pizza
    Nov 3, 2023, 12:51 AM

    @samplereality That sounds very cool, but it's all digital, digital, digital. I am retired now, but my English department had people who ran a maker space where students could create 18th century style broadsheets and bind books. They make 'zines and stuff. It seems to me that education should blend and blur the past, the present, and the future, as well as the physical and the virtual. Students think that their world is on their phones, but physical reality intrudes. Still.

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