The Digital Humanities thinking and pedagogy at IIT Delhi is currently organised around an assortment of courses in a range of programmes:

Online Course

Text, Textuality and Digital Media is a MOOC offered on the Swayam/ NPTEL platform. This course studies the evolution of language, narratives and representation through the history of technologies of communication – oral, written, print and the digital. It explores the concepts of copyright, censorship, authorship, nation formation to understand the interaction between technological transformation and changes in human society and consciousness. The objective of this course is to reflect on the possibilities of the digital age. The courses engages with the debates surrounding blogging, social media, video games, wikipedia and other forms of electronic texts.

Undergraduate courses

Codex to Hypertext is a course in media archaeology that studies the emergence of digital means of communication and representation which is transforming the way human beings assimilate and engage with knowledge. A similar radical moment was the emergence of print. The course looks at the history of print, authorship, the book distribution, copyright, censorship. It will study forms of digital representation of art, intellectual property in the digital domain, creative commons, networked art. The course will pay special attention to the question – Is the book dying?

Electronic Literature is a course that introduces students to the intersections between computers and story telling. It looks at the emergence of computers and the early attempts at combinatory narratives. Thereafter, it looks at hypertext fiction, interactive narratives, video games and issues of copyright and preservation of electronic fiction.

Courses for MA in Culture Society Thought

Foundations in the Digital Humanities is designed to help students of the humanities make their first forays into understanding the role of digital tools for analysing and preserving cultural artifacts and experiences. In this course students will get an overview of various digital tools, methods and digital humanities projects. They will formulate a theoretical understanding of the implication of working with digital tools in the humanities.

Basics of Programming for Digital Humanities is a course aims to enable students learn the basics of programming that will enable them to work with text as data, grasp the basics of acquiring, manipulating, and analyzing data relevant for humanities inquiry.

Introduction to Digitisation is for training students to identify and handle equipment required for digitisation projects, follow standard protocol for handling of sensitive material, prepare metadata, and have an awareness of the complete digitisation life cycle.

Electives for PhD Scholars

Working with Humanities Data is a course that introduces humanities and social science research scholars to specialized methods of acquiring, analyzing and visualizing humanities data. It helps them conceptualize data oriented thinking as a viable research method as well as adopt an informed, critical approach to an increasingly digitalized world.

Authorship and Copyright helps students understand the emergence of the concept of the author and its linkages to the coming of print. Students should also be able to make a link between the concept of the author genius and the emergence of copyright laws.