Hyderabad: Digital humanities, one of the emerging courses internationally in several universities in the US, the UK and Europe including, has been running successfully at the Koti Women’s College. Introduced this three years ago at the under-graduate level, it has caught attention ever since. Students who selected the college as part of the ongoing online admissions are enquiring about BA (computer applications-digital humanities).
Prof. B.T. Seetha, college principal, said the digital humanities course offered a rare combination of arts and information technology that will be taught in parallel over three years.
Digital humanities is an emerging field that encompasses the practice of humanities research through information technology, and the exploration of how humanities evolve through their engagement with technology, media, and computational methods, Prof. Seetha said
“Digital storage and presentation of data have become increasingly important. Digital humanities along with informatics will help students to develop practical skills to understand and apply computing to source materials,” the professor added.
She said the college was trying to introduce it at the PG level from the next academic year. “Our institution is one of the very few in the country that have made it part of academic curriculum,” she said. Some colleges were offering certificate courses in the subject.
Ms Savita Rathore from the department of computer science stated that student could become a developer to support largescale processing and analysis of data and its usage for open access materials.
Students doing digital humanities are eligible for jobs like digital library developers, copy editors, e-learning module developers, web designers, and information managers, she said.
The Telangana Collegiate Education department is mulling implementing the course in degree curriculum from the next academic year.
The course covers Office tools, Python programming, web designing, database management systems (social databases), research data processing, digital humanities (designing, developing of kigital libraries, among others.
