HC 802 - Interdisciplinary Seminar3 credits
This seminar, team-taught by instructors from different departments, will investigate a common theme from two disciplinary perspectives, comparing and synthesizing the methods used and the questions asked. Topics vary with instructor expertise. For Spring 2016, the course description is as follows:
The Digital Revolution
This interdisciplinary seminar explores the digital revolution’s social, economic, cultural, personal, ethical, and intellectual impacts through a series of public lectures and smaller classroom gatherings. It is university and community-based, drawing upon faculty from Drew’s three schools, staff engaged in promoting digital learning on campus, and visiting scholars. The seminar’s learning objectives include exposing participants to the revolution’s many dimensions in ethics, finance, the humanities, cognitive science, publishing and new media, information literacy, and the arts. Participants will also engage with the issues surrounding digitization including big data and social profiling, financial systems stability, privacy and security, open access and intellectual property rights, best practices in teaching and learning, problems of access, communications and social interaction. Lastly, the seminar aims to provide participants with hands-on training in digital skills useful for professional and scholarly success in the knowledge economy. Open to graduate students in the CSGS and GDR and to juniors and seniors in the CLA with instructor approval.
Required for all doctoral students in the History and Culture program, but open to other students as well. Offered in alternate years.
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