[Histmaj] Minor in Textual Studies and Digital Humanities

[Tracy L Maschman Morrissey via Histmaj]

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UW Textual Studies
Consider the minor in
Textual Studies and Digital Humanities
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  *   Interested in a career in libraries and archives, publishing and editing, or in a field dedicated to preserving, archiving, and making accessible cultural materials, objects, and documents, in both physical and digital formats?
  *   Curious to explore the impacts of digitization, search engines, and massive databases like Google Books on our abilities to find and access information?
  *   Wondering about the future of creative work, copyright, and authorship in the age of AI?
  *   Eager to work hands-on with historical artifacts like medieval manuscripts, early printed books, artists books, and archival documents?
  *   Keen to develop skills and learn best practices for working with and building databases of textual and cultural objects as well as for creating and publishing digital editions and exhibits?

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Through hands-on learning, explore the history and future of media technologies, from ancient scrolls to Artifical Intelligence, and discover skills for analyzing and building digital archives, editions, and databases.
Click for more info about the minor <https://txtds.uw.edu/index.php/programs/minor-in-textual-studies-digital-humanities/>
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  *   Create eBooks, digital archives and exhibitions, or use data-driven methods to explore humanities questions.
  *   Work with historical materials in UW Special Collections from antiquity to present day.
  *   Get your hands on vintage typewriters and try out letterpress printing and other historical writing technologies.
  *   Work closely with librarians, archivists, and faculty with expertise in (among many other areas)
     *   Manuscripts, from medieval Europe to the Ottoman Empire to early imperial China
     *   Print from the global Renaissance to 19th-century South Asia to the typography of modernist poetry
     *   Data-driven arts, data science for the humanities, AI, and cultural analytics
     *   Digital humanities, digital editing and publishing
     *   Metadata, search and discovery for digitized and born-digital collecitons; metadata
     *   Art history, artists books, and museum studies
     *   Libraries, rare books, special collections
     *   Book arts and critical making, letterpress, bookbinding, printmaking

Read about TXTDS faculty and librarians<https://txtds.uw.edu/index.php/people/>

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To complete the 25-credit minor, you’ll take two courses from each distribution: the Core Courses<https://txtds.uw.edu/index.php/programs/minor-in-textual-studies-digital-humanities/#requirements> and Electives<https://txtds.uw.edu/index.php/programs/minor-in-textual-studies-digital-humanities/#electives>. You’ll also complete TXTDS 405: Capstone.

The capstone<https://txtds.uw.edu/index.php/capstones/> is a culminating project undertaken over the course of a quarter, under the guidance of a chosen faculty advisor or a librarian. The capstone can be completed in any quarter, including the summer.

Learn more about the TXTDS capstone!<https://txtds.uw.edu/index.php/capstones/>

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Check out our courses for 2025-2026<https://txtds.uw.edu/index.php/current_courses/>

How to sign up and contacts for advising<https://txtds.uw.edu/index.php/programs/minor-in-textual-studies-digital-humanities/#sign_up>

For more information about the courses and the minor, contact Geoffrey Turnovsky<mailto:%20gt2 at uw.edu> or write to text (at) uw.edu<mailto:%20text at uw.edu>.

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