Bryn Mawr College's Digital Competencies Program helps students build the digital skills and critical perspectives on technology needed for success in the digital age.
"Anthropology is about challenging the idea that there are ready-made explanations for the humans do, or ready-made solutions to all of the problems we’ve produced in our world," says Visiting Assistant Professor Leigh Campoamor in a recent article from the Bi-College news. Next semester, Campoamor will be teaching a course on "Digital Cultures."
Digital competencies can be built across a student's career, in everything from clubs to personal hobbies. However, Bryn Mawr College students interested in integrating digital competencies into their academic classes will find no shortage of opportunities like this one, which will build digital competencies in several areas, and may be particularly useful for the critical questions raised by Data Management and Preservation.
From the Tri-Co Course Catalog:
ANTH B334 Digital Cultures
Spring 2018
How do we do anthropology in, and of, the digital age? What does it mean to do ethnography of digital spaces, when we, as humans, exist simultaneously in overlapping virtual and actual worlds? Specific topics to be covered include surveillance, telecommunications infrastructures, activism, social movements, gender and sexuality, disability, space and place, and virtual ethnography. Prerequisite: Anth B102 or Anth H103 or one anthropology course at the 200 level or permission of instructor.
Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies
If you know of other courses that would be of interest to students building digital competencies, please let us know!