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Enabling Interdisciplinary Instruction in Computer Science and Humanities

An Innovative Teaching and Learning Model Customized for Small Liberal Arts Colleges

Authors : William B. Crum Jr., Aaron Angello, Xinlian Liu, Corey Campion

Published in: Computational Science – ICCS 2019

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Infiltration of data-driven computational methods of humanities research has generated mutual interests between the two communities of computer science and humanities. Larger institutions have adopted drastic structural reforms to meet the challenges to bridge the two fields. Successful examples include the integrated major programs launched at Stanford University and the collaborative workshop at Carnegie Mellon University. These types of exploratory experiments require (1) intensive resources as well as (2) strong support of faculty and administration. At a small college, both can be luxuries. We present an innovative model to carry out effective synchronized courses of computational humanities and digital humanities that pulls together efforts between two small programs and needs little additional support. This paper reviews the proposal, design, and delivery of a pair of interdisciplinary graduate courses in the small college setting. We discuss the details of our implementation and provided our observations and recommendations.

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Title: Enabling Interdisciplinary Instruction in Computer Science and Humanities
Authors: William B. Crum Jr.
Aaron Angello
Xinlian Liu
Corey Campion
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Computational Science – ICCS 2019
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-22749-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-22750-0

Copyright Year: 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22750-0_31

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