Digital Humanities and Social Sciences BS (DHSS) is one of RIT's "New Economy Majors", representing skillsets looked for by employers in todays technology-focused world. Students will develop both "hard" (technical) and "soft" (social) skills through a combination of interdisciplinary coursework. Hands-on, project-based courses enabling students to show off their skills are a major focus of the major.
The core of the DHSS curriculum includes programming and design principles coupled with the history of technology and digital culture. The flexibility offered by this degree is welcoming to newcomers, transfers, major changes, and double majors, and students will find it easy to curate their courses to fit their career aspirations.
Students can specialize in:
- Creative Writing
- Digital Journalism / Literature
- Web Development
- Communications
- Game Design & Development
- International and Global Studies
- And more!
The DHSS Showcase is a living document of Digital Humanities at RIT. Being both representative and interactive, its purpose is to provide visibility to an evolving and increasingly relevant discipline.
Specifically, the DHSS Showcase exists to help:
- celebrate and connect the efforts and interests of DHSS faculty and students
- create community and growth
- inform empirical understandings of DH
- educate prospective students and educators
- create and archive shared knowledge built by and for collaboration
- With a digital presence that embodies the values of DH, we believe DHSS is empowered.
Digital Humanities (DH) is a collaborative effort to...
- …advance the humanities in a networked world
- …inform the development and treatment of tech and media by the humanities and vice versa
- …study and apply accessibility, inclusion, and sustainability
- …foster new forms of inquiry
- …develop those efforts from each other
- …and improve DH
Development Team:
- DHSS Capstone Classes:
- 2020-2021: Marissa Burkland, Andrew England
- 2021-2022: Cael Burkhardt, Kadin Benjamin, Nick Pels
- 2022-2023: Josh Clemens (With further help from Cael Burkhardt and Kadin Benjamin)
Thanks to:
- Brad Coudriet (Data Storage)
- Dr. Liz Lawley (Accessibility, Sustainability, and Experience-design advisor)
- Dr. Jessica Lieberman (DHSS department head; DHSS Capstone professor)
- Dr. Whitney Sperrazza (Digital Humanities advisor)
- Rebekah Walker (Digital Humanities librarian and advisor)
CUNY Academic Commons CBOX OpenLab Team
Commons In A Box (CBOX) OpenLab
The RIT DHSS Showcase's source code is hosted here, on GitHub. Currently, the site is built on WordPress, using the Commons In A Box (CBOX) OpenLab toolkit. We have made several edits of our own to the included plugins in an attempt to better fit our needs.
In order to make changes to the code, you will need to install git. There are also several GUI-based git clients like GitHub Desktop or GitKraken which are either free or offer student versions. Any of them will work.
Editing the code should be done on a local copy (on your machine). When looking at the GitHub repo, the green code button will give you everything you need to "clone" the code.
Using the git cli, all you need to do is copy and run the provided command, then follow the prompts on the command line. Using GitHub Desktop is even easier, taking only a single click to start the process.
Once you have a local copy of the code, use your preferred editor to make your changes, then make a "commit" to save them. In the command line, run git status to see all changes, then git add path/to/file for each file you want to include. Alternatively, if you want to include every file, git add --all or git add .. Once all files are added, a "commit" must be made to track the changes. The easiest way to do this is by running git commit -m "put what changed here". The -m flag indicates a commit message, equivalent to the smaller textbox on GitHub Desktop. Once a commit is made, it must be pushed to the remote repository for others to see it. This is done simply by running git push, but you may have to log in to GitHub to complete this successfully. Your login method will be different depending on how you have set up your environment, so please check the github documentation for more information.
Using a GitHub Desktop, all changed files are included by default, but you must include a commit message before you are allowed to push. You will have to log in to GitHub to do this.