1. Integrating Digital Humanities Projects into the Undergraduate Curriculum Rebecca Frost Davis, Program Officer for the Humanities, National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE) Kathryn Tomasek, Associate Professor of History, Wheaton College, Massachusetts THATCamp Liberal Arts Colleges, June 4, 2011

2. Goals Connect digital humanities teaching to pedagogical theory Review why people at small liberal arts colleges want to do digital humanities Connect to tenets of liberal education Elaborate the pedagogical theory of project-based learning

3. Why Digital Humanities @ LAC? Undergraduate research Pedagogical practices, especially active and collaborative learning, project based and applied learning Learning about the changed digital environment or context and how to exercise liberal arts abilities (critical thinking, writing, etc.) in that context—in other words: preparing undergraduates to be citizens in a networked world Interdisciplinary work and other types of collaboration Revitalizing the humanities

4. Liberal Education: Essential Learning Outcomes Intellectual and practical skills, like Inquiry and analysis Critical and creative thinking Written and oral communication Quantitative literacy Information literacy Teamwork and problem solving Knowledge of human cultures and the physical and natural world; personal and social responsibility, including civic knowledge and engagement both locally and globally; integrative and applied learning.

5. High Impact Practices (Kuh) First-Year Seminars and Experiences Common Intellectual Experience Learning Communities Writing-Intensive Courses Collaborative Assignments and Projects Undergraduate Research Diversity/Global Learning Service Learning, Community-Based Learning Internships Capstone Courses and Projects

6. Undergraduate Research Blackwell and Martin Student-faculty collaborative research Tasks in expertise range of students Meaningful contributions

7. Pedagogical Theory Applied Learning = transfer

8. Problem-Based Learning (PBL) Real world application = engagement Primary materials Disciplinary practice Scaffold Scope Intentional Learning Student reflection Cavanagh, ”Bringing Our Brains to the Humanities”