Coordinator: Johannes Burgers
Email: burgerjh@jmu.edu
Phone: (540) 568-6110
Digital Studies Minor Website
Program Description
This cross-disciplinary minor allows students to gain hands-on experience with powerful digital technologies and study the implications of these technologies with a community of thinkers. Courses are welcoming to students of all academic backgrounds and technical skills. Students use digital methods to open up new perspectives in the humanities and social sciences; explore how the digital impacts our everyday lives and local and global communities; and enrich their future careers through experience and practice within the digital landscape. The Digital Studies minor is open to all JMU undergraduate students.
Minor Requirements
The minor requires successful completion of 18 credit hours, including DS 101 Foundations in Digital Studies. DS 101 is not a prerequisite to other Digital Studies courses and can be taken at any time. Students may take no more than 6 credit hours from a single discipline. Up to 6 credits from the student's major can double count for the Digital Studies minor.
Other courses outside of this list may be counted towards the minor with the approval of the minor steering committee on a semester-by-semester basis. A maximum of two courses (6 credit hours) can count in this way. Courses must be approved before the student enrolls.
Course List
| Code |
Title |
Credits |
| DS 101 | Foundations in Digital Studies | 3 |
| 3 |
| 15 |
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| Topics in Communication Studies (when topic appropriate; must be approved by the minor coordinator before registering) 1 | |
| Practicum in Communication Studies (when topic appropriate; must be approved by the minor coordinator before registering) 1 | |
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| Literature and Ideas [C2L] (when topic appropriate; must be approved by the minor coordinator before registering) | |
| Special Topics in Literature and Language (Print and Digital Literary Publishing) | |
| Literature and Ideas (Literature and Ideas: Fuzzy Cartographies) | |
| Studies in Linguistics and the English Language (when topic appropriate) | |
| Introduction to Film | |
| Advanced Studies in African American Literature (when topic Local Black Literature or when appropriate; must be approved by the minor coordinator before registering) | |
| Special Topic Seminar (Video Game Studies) | |
| Advanced Studies in Linguistics and the English Language (when topic appropriate; must be approved by the minor coordinator before registering) | |
| Advanced Studies in Theory and Cultural Studies (when topic appropriate; must be approved by the minor coordinator before registering) | |
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| Plazas, Protests and Processions: An Urban History of the Americas | |
| Digital History | |
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| Advanced Level Special Topics in Justice Studies (when topic appropriate; must be approved by the minor coordinator before registering) 1 | |
| Mapping Justice 1 | |
| Justice in Literature, Film and Art 1 | |
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| User-Centered Research and Usability Evaluation 1 | |
| New Media and Society 1 | |
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| The Archaeology of Empires and Rebels | |
| Andean Archaeology | |
| Spatial Analysis for Social Research | |
| Digital Inequality | |
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| Special Topics in Japanese Culture (when topic Japanese Film, TV and Media or when appropriate; must be approved by the minor coordinator before registering) | |
| Spanish for Medical Professionals I | |
| Special Topics in Spanish Literature (Spanish Civil War Through Literature and Film) 1 | |
| Spanish for Medical Professionals II 1 | |
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| Creative Approaches to Digital Storytelling 1 | |
| Sound Writing 1 | |
| Online Design | |
| Content Strategy 1 | |
| Special Topics in Writing, Rhetoric and Technical Communication (when topic appropriate; must be approved by the minor coordinator before registering) 1 | |
| Interaction Design 1 | |
| Digital Rhetoric 1 | |
| 15 |
| Total Credits | 18 |
