Minor Requirements – Digital Arts and Humanities

Minor Requirements – 44 Total Credits

Students must complete at least 44 credits to complete the minor, including an introductory theory and methods course (6 credits) and capstone Digital Arts and Humanities ePortfolio seminar (2 credits).

The remaining 36 credits are drawn from a range of courses that foster digital skills, critical reflection on digital scholarship, and collaborative practices transferable across disciplines. At least 6 credits must be taken from each elective category, and at least 12 credits must be at the 200 level or above. Students are strongly encouraged to explore different disciplines and the connections among them in the course of their study; at least three subjects (e.g., ARCN, CAMS, STAT,…) must be represented (for at least six elective credits each) and at least 12 elective credits must come from courses designated Arts Practice, Humanistic Inquiry or Literary/Artistic Analysis. No more than 18 elective credits may come from any one department and no more than 18 credits may count toward both the student’s major and the DGAH minor.

Core Courses – Required 6 credits

The core courses introduce students to a broad range of digital methodologies and promote critical reflection on their digital project work in a collaborative setting.

DGAH 110: Hacking the Humanities
Offered annually, this course features a general introduction to the methods and implications of digital scholarship, as well as hands-on collaborative project work.
DGAH 120: Interactive Digital Narratives: Theory and Practice (not offered 2025-26)
DGAH 220: Creative Coding and Generative AI (not offered 2025-26)

Skill Building in Digital Media and Methodologies – Required Min 6 credits

These courses teach fundamental skills of digital production or analysis including hardware, software, and methods that are widely transferable across the arts and humanities.

ARCN 246: Archaeological Methods & Lab
CAMS 111: Intro to Cinema and Media Production
CAMS 165: Sound Design (not offered 2025-26)
CS 111: Introduction to Computer Science
DGAH 210: Spatial Humanities (not offered 2025-26)
ENTS 120: Introduction to Geospatial Analysis & Lab
HIST 200: Historians for Hire (not offered 2025-26)
MUSC 108: Introduction to Music Technologies
STAT 120: Introduction to Statistics
STAT 220: Introduction to Data Science
STAT 250: Introduction to Statistical Inference

Other Skill Building Options

CS 201: Data Structures can count for students that have placed out of CS 111: Introduction to Computer Science
PSYC 200/201 can count for STAT 120: Introduction to Statistics

Critical and Ethical Reflection on Digital Scholarship – Required Min 6 credits

Courses that directly engage with the implications of digital technologies and teach students to be critical consumers and producers of digital media.

Cross-disciplinary Collaboration in Digital Projects – Required Min 6 credits

Courses that emphasize hands-on, experiential learning by creating digital projects that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries or engage authentically with community partners and public audiences.

AMST 221: Indigenous Chicago: Indigenous Histories and Futures in Zhegagoynak (not offered 2025-26)
AMST 231: Contemporary Indigenous Activism
ARCN 211: Coercion and Exploitation: Material Histories of Labor (not offered 2025-26)
ARCN 222: Experimental Archaeology and Experiential History and Lab
ARTH 216: Revolutionary Image Regimes: Curating Middle Eastern Photographs and Prints after the Digital Turn (not offered 2025-26)
ARTS 220*: Art, Interactivity, and Microcontrollers (*=Junior Seminar)
ARTS 252: Metalsmithing: Ancient Techniques—New Technologies
ASST 285: Mapping Japan, the Real and the Imagined
CS 220: Art, Interactivity, and Microcontrollers (not offered 2025-26)
CS 220*: Art, Interactivity, and Microcontrollers (*=Junior Seminar)
DGAH 220: Creative Coding and Generative AI (not offered 2025-26)
DGAH 264: Visualizing the Ancient City (not offered 2025-26)
HIST 116: Intro to Indigenous Histories, 1887-present (not offered 2025-26)
HIST 206: Rome Program: The Eternal City in Time: Structure, Change, and Identity (not offered 2025-26)
HIST 231: Mapping the World Before Mercator (not offered 2025-26)
HIST 238: The Viking World (not offered 2025-26)
HIST 245: Ireland: Land, Conflict and Memory (not offered 2025-26)
HIST 301: Indigenous Histories at Carleton (not offered 2025-26)
HIST 338: Digital History, Public Heritage & Deep Mapping
MUSC 221: The Principles of Music Creation
RELG 243: Native American Religious Freedom
RELG 289: Global Religions in Minnesota (not offered 2025-26)
THEA 234: Lighting Design for the Performing Arts (not offered 2025-26)

Senior Capstone Experience – Required 2 credits

DGAH 398: Digital Arts & Humanities Portfolio: A Capstone Seminar
In this advanced capstone seminar, seniors will create an instructor-guided ePortfolio that curates and critically reflects on the digital experiences in, and products of, courses taken for the minor. If appropriate, this may also highlight digital components of a comps project.

Additional Departmental Notes

Students may count–with prior approval of both the course instructor and the minor coordinators–other advanced courses (200 or 300 level) in which the minor makes significant use of digital technology to produce a research project or creative product. Additional courses that engage substantially with a significant number of the DGAH learning goals may also be added to this list at the director’s discretion in consultation with the committee. Courses from OCS programs and independent studies may be submitted for consideration, but no more than six OCS credits may count towards the minor. For two-credit trailing courses and digital labs that require co-registration, only the digital component will be counted. Repeatable two-credit public outreach courses may be counted for up to six credits.