Book History and Digital Humanities, Undergraduate Minor

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About the Book History and Digital Humanities Undergraduate Minor Program

The interdisciplinary minor in book history and digital humanities allows students to investigate many disciplines, including but not limited to the history of ideas, the history of religion, literature, technical communication, economics, fine art and art history, the study of cognition and education, communication studies, and anthropology. Courses in the minor include information related to materiality of texts (writ large); technological change; reading, readership, reception; cognition and the brain; historical contexts related to text production; censorship and seditious printing; etc.

The minor consists of 18 hours of coursework, at least 6 hours of which come from ENGL 2312 , ENGL 3360 (when taught as Technologies of Writing), and HIST 3354 .

Contact: Dr. Marta Kvande
marta.kvande@ttu.edu

Electives may come from:

ANTH 3348 - Introduction to Historical Archaeology 3 Semester Credit Hours
ENGL 3382 - Women Writers 3 Semester Credit Hours
ENGL 4313 - Studies in Fiction 3 Semester Credit Hours (when subtitled History of the Book)
GEOL 3323 - Environmental Geology 3 Semester Credit Hours
GEOL 4318 - Geology of Texas 3 Semester Credit Hours
HIST 3327 - Earth, Wind, and Fire: Nature and History in America 3 Semester Credit Hours
HIST 3328 - History of Religion in America 3 Semester Credit Hours
HIST 3352 - History of Modern Italy 3 Semester Credit Hours
HIST 3354 - Twentieth Century Europe 3 Semester Credit Hours
HIST 3350 - War, Religion, and Revolution: Early Modern Europe 3 Semester Credit Hours
HIST 3360 - The British Isles to 1688 3 Semester Credit Hours
HIST 4348 - The Renaissance 3 Semester Credit Hours
HIST 4373 - Tudor-Stuart England, 1450-1688 3 Semester Credit Hours
PHIL 2350 - World Religions and Philosophy 3 Semester Credit Hours
PHIL 3340 - Minds, Brains, and Computers 3 Semester Credit Hours
PHIL 3341 - Philosophy and Literature 3 Semester Credit Hours
PHIL 4331 - Philosophy of Language 3 Semester Credit Hours

Students may also choose up to six hours from outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, including:

ARTH 4307 - History of the Book as Art 3 Semester Credit Hours
ARTH 4340 - The Art of the Renaissance 3 Semester Credit Hours
ARCH 4324 - Introduction to Historic Preservation 3 Semester Credit Hours