DASH Minor Requirements

Course Requirements  (15 Units)

For the minor, students will take 15 units of course work, at least 6 units of which should be drawn from the four core DASH courses, plus at least 3 units of internship (which can be repeated for up to 8 credits). The internship research experience is required and consists of working under the director of a faculty on a project through IPH or the Humanities Digital Workshop. The DASH courses and internship can be supplemented with elective courses in Computational Humanities, Digital Culture and Design, or Computer Science. 

Required Course (3 units)

  • L93 IPH 3123 "Introduction to Digital Humanities" (3 units)

DASH Core (at least 3 and up to 7 units)

  • L93 IPH 430 "Data Manipulation for the Humanities" (1 unit) 
  • L93 IPH 431 "Statistics for Humanities" (3 units) 
  • L93 IPH 432 "Programming for Text Analysis" (3 units)

Research via Internship (at least 2 units or up to 6 unit)

  • L93 IPH 399 "Internship in Digital Humanities" (2-6 units)
    • This course may be repeated for up to 6 units.  Students intern on a faculty Digital Humanities research project either during the academic year or in summer through the Humanities Digital Workshop.

Electives:  Remaining units from the following courses (more to be added to this list as they present themselves)

Via Arts & Sciences:

  • L01 Art-Arch 3973 "New Media, New Technologies" (3 units)
  • L01 Art-Arch 4977 "Mapping Art, Race, & Community in the US-Mexico Borderlands"
  • L04 Chinese 390 "EALC Seminar: Screening East Asia: From Scroll Painting to Haptic Interface" (3 units)
  • L04 Chinese 430 "Topics in Chinese Media Culture: Charting Identity in the Digital Age" (3 units)
  • L14 E Lit 420 "Topics in English and American Literature: Predicting a Bestseller: Computational Approaches to Publishing Trends" (3 units)
  • L14 E Lit 498W "The Spenser Lab" (4 units)
  • L15 Drama 390 "Immersive Story Studio" (3 units)
  • L22 History 3614 "Artificial Intelligence: The Mind and the Machine" (3 units)
  • L22 History 4887 "Advanced Seminar: Digital Frontiers in History" (3 units)
  • L44 Ling 317 "Introduction to Computational Linguistics" (3 units)
  • L53 Film 337 "Retro Game Design" (3 units)
  • L53 Film 4040 "Cultural Analysis of Social Media Algorithms" (3 units)
  • L53 Film 453 "Experiential Design for Immersive Media" (3 units)
  • L53 Film 479 "Seminar in Interdisciplinary Approaches: How to Study Race Online" (3 units)
  • L90 AFAS 3644 " 'Look Here, Karen': The Politics of Black Digital Resistance to White Femininity" (3 units)
  • L87 SDS 2200 "Elementary Probability and Statistics" (3 units)
  • L87 SDS 3200 "Elementary to Intermediate Statistics and Data Analysis" (3 units)
  • L87 SDS 3211 "Statistics for Data Science I" (3 units)
  • L87 SDS 420 "Experimental Design" (3 units)
  • L87 SDS 459 "Bayesian Statistics" (3 units)
  • L87 SDS 462 "Mathematical Foundations of Big Data" (3 units)

Via McKelvey School of Engineering Computer Science & Engineering:

  • E81 CSE 131 "Introduction to Computer Science I" (3 units)
  • E81 CSE 204A "Web Development" (3 units)
  • E81 CSE 217A "Introduction to Data Science" (3 units)
  • E81 CSE 247 "Data Structures and Algorithms" (3 units)
  • E81 CSE 247R "Seminar: Data Structures and Algorithms" (1 unit)
  • E81 CSE 311A "Introduction to Intelligent Agents Using Science Fiction" (3 units)
  • E81 CSE 330S "Rapid Prototype Development and Creative Programming" (3 units)
  • E81 CSE 4061 "Text Mining" (3 units)
  • E81 CSE 457A "Introduction to Visualization" (3 units)

Via Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts:

  • F10 ART 332J "UX Research Methods for Design" (3 units)

For detailed requirements, please visit the 2024-25 Undergraduate Bulletin page for the DASH Minor.