Restricted to first semester first year students in the College of Arts and Humanities.

How can we share and preserve the cultures we love in a digital world? In this course, students explore their own cultural identities from gaming and fandoms to heritage languages and music while learning to bridge the digital divide. Adopting a "minimal computing" ethic, you will learnto build future-proof, "static" websites and manage digital data using free, accessible tools. We will navigate the ethics of AI, intellectual property, and environmental sustainability. Through a hands-on digital project, you ll develop skills in data curation, information visualization, and linked data. By joining this community of"Citizen Humanists," you will gain the technical and research tools necessary to archive the cultural practices most meaningful to you and your community.