Course Goals

Majors in Comparative and Digital Humanities will be able to:

  1. Compare and evaluate cultural differences in a non-hierarchical manner across boundaries of all kinds:
  • Historical (including situations, intellectual products, and material remains of different periods);
    Cultural (including race, gender, nationality, religion, and sexual orientation); and
    Formal (between different modes of thought and expression). (2, 3, 5, 6)
  1. Critically compare intellectual materials of different or opposing types: textual with material artifacts; narrative with non-narrative texts; artistic with analytical modes of thought; analog and digital. (6, 8)
  2. Understand the cultural, social, ethical, and theoretical debates within the Digital Humanities. (2, 5, 9)
  3. Demonstrate artful and effective oral and analytical skills, in analog and digital form. (7, 8)
  4. Demonstrate proficiency in a second language. (3)

*Numbers in parentheses reflect related Bucknell University Educational Goals.