VIRTUAL. Computing for Renaissance Studies
Course Info:
- Department: Liberal Arts
- Areas: Communications, History
- Credit Hours: 3, Contact Hours: 45
- Course Number (SRISA): TBA
- Course Number (Maryville University): TBA
- Prerequisite: English Composition I and II
Course Description:
The course will guide the student into the digital resources for historical studies and the history of the Renaissance in particular. Students have the opportunity to search, interrogate and analyze a direct source, both a document or a narrative text; will be able to use it as a resource for historical research and will be able to work with a team in the web department of an academic publishing house.
Course Purpose:
The purpose of this course is to give the students the possibility to learn the analysis, synthesis, and multimedia diffusion of Renaissance documents. After a period of theoretical training, students will be able to apply their acquisitions working – remotely or in-person – for a website into three possible sectors:
- Copy editing and translations
- Historical research
- Database management
Local Hosts:
SRISA is partnering with the University of Florence for the International project CeSecom, a website published by the Florence University Press on the history of Europe and Asia in the middle ages and Renaissance times.