Digital Humanities Course Development Grant
I am excited to be developing a new course, History 179: Communicating Science with support from Digital Humanities at Claremont. This course will consider modes of popular science from the 19th C to today including museum exhibits, children's books, magazines, documentaries and science blogs. We will examine the ways in which different audiences have interacted with (or been excluded from) these different genres, asking how public modes of science communication have nurtured particular expectations about the scope and authority of science.
The class will combine traditional seminar-style discussions with a Digital Humanities lab component. Students will develop tools to do distant reading of digitized newspaper archives and will publish their course work digitally using Scalar.
The class will combine traditional seminar-style discussions with a Digital Humanities lab component. Students will develop tools to do distant reading of digitized newspaper archives and will publish their course work digitally using Scalar.
