The class will require you to be hands on about your learning. There will be in-class lectures, recorded lectures, written and recorded tutorials and guided exercises. There will also be discussion of short readings and some quick responses and asynchronous chat or writing about them. In discussion and writing you will have the opportunity to share critical ideas and opinions about the material.
Over the semester we will try out different digital environments–from the easy to the less easy–to explore spatial data and its relationship to the humanities. We will not be building everything from scratch--that would not give us time to do everything that we do in a Core course--but rather experimenting with different forms of data creation, visualization and storytelling.
You will be asked to produce reflective writing, individually crafted visuals from specific tools and descriptive and contextualizing writing which accompanies those visuals. Emphasis will be placed, less on “getting it right” than on experimentation. All work will be placed online.