Course content

This course is about digital changes and digitalization processes. The course addresses case studies of selected technologies (eg photography,
encyclopedia, learning- and analysis tools), exploring the link of these technologies' historical analog roots and contemporary mediated practices. The purpose is to develop critical perspectives on what this digitalization implies - and does not imply.

This will further provide basis for a discussion about how digitalization contributes to new questions, new issues and new ways of exploring things in humanities. This is done through thematic organized project work.

Learning outcome

Knowledge
Students who complete this course have knowledge of:
- historical and present digitalization processes and their consequences for organization and knowledge development
- controversies and criticisms aimed at digitalization processes
- how humanities can contribute to the knowledge of digitalization processes

Skills
Students who complete this course have skills in:
- how to analyze historical and present digitalization processes
- how to critically evaluate technological and social changes related to digitalization
- how to formulate a problem on a given subject and answer it through project work

General competencies
Students who complete this course will have general competencies in
- Collaborative learning
- Project work

Learning methods and activities

Six weeks of lectures followed by six weeks of seminar training, where the students work on a project in interdisciplinary groups. The project is presented in the end.

Compulsory activities:
- Project outline / project plan
- Weekly logs during the project period
- Presentation of the project

All compulsory activities are conducted in groups. All activities must be approved in order for the student to pass the exam.

Compulsory assignments

• Project plan
• Weekly logs
• Project presentation

Credit reductions