The Digital Humanities minor at UCF spans fields such as literature, rhetoric, technical communication, philosophy, public history, and cultural and textual studies, exploring how they can be infused with digital methods and practices in coding, game design, and archiving. DH includes both humanistic ways of looking at digital texts (from social media to video games to Geographical Information Systems maps) and digital ways of looking at humanistic texts (such as data mining the words used in novels, digitally archiving history, and visualizing characters reoccurring across cultural traditions). DH students are both scholars and makers. They combine the big questions of the humanities with technological tools that include code, artificial intelligence, images, image-text, databases, and languages, and in doing so advance the present (and future) of creating and thinking across the humanities. DH cultivates a variety of literacies, from traditional notions of writing to computational and critical AI literacy (using programming, generative artificial intelligence, and new media installations as inventive methods for production, critique, and analysis). Example DH projects include: an interactive narrative designed to help girls learn leadership skills; digital collections of the history, experiences, and stories of Central Florida; generative AI performer avatars; and a project using Alice in Wonderland as a metaphor for experiencing media.
Admission Requirements
Minor Requirements
Prerequisite Courses
Degree Requirements
Required Courses
6 Total Credits
- Complete the following:
- HUM3830 - Introduction to Digital Humanities (3)
- DIG3171 - Tools for Digital Humanities (3)
Restricted Electives
12 Total Credits
- Complete all of the following
- Select a total of twelve (12) hours. Additional courses not listed below may be substitute with prior approval from the department.
- A list of approved restricted elective courses is found in the myKnight audit.
- Complete at least 4 of the following:
- CRW3713 - Writing for Video Games (3)
- ENC4416 - Writing in Digital Environments (3)
- ENG3817 - Digital Archives (3)
- ENC4414 - Writing and Hypertext (3)
- ENC4290 - Usability Testing for Technical Communication (3)
- ENC3417 - Literacy and Technology (3)
- HIS4150 - History and Historians (3)
- PHI3323 - Minds and Machines: Philosophy of Cognitive Science (3)
- PHI3625 - Virtual Ethics (3)
- PHI3626 - Advanced Ethics in Science and Technology (3)
- AMH4644 - Viewing American History in the Twentieth Century (3)
- CRW4760 - Digital Storytelling for Creative Writers (3)
- ENG3616 - Fan Studies (3)
- ENG3860 - Critical Making in the Humanities (3)
- ENC4415 - Digital Rhetorics and The Modern Dialectic (3)
- ENC4218 - Visual Technical Communication (3)
- ENG3392 - Literary Gaming (3)
- ENG3935 - Topics in Digital Humanities (3)
- ENG3623 - Digital Humanities Approaches to Social Media (3)
- ENG3861 - Digital Humanities Approaches to AI (3)
- ENC3600 - Literacies of Artificial Intelligence (3)
- PHI3681 - AI and Big Data Ethics (3)
Grand Total Credits: 18
Other Requirements
- A grade of "C" (2.0) or better is required in each course used to satisfy the minor.
- At least 12 hours used in the minor must be earned at UCF within the College of Arts and Humanities.
- No more than 6 hours of overlap allowed between programs when multiple English programs are declared.
- A maximum of 3 credit hours of internship may be applied with approval from the program director.
- No credit by exam (TSD, Military credit) may be used.
