HUMANITIES IN A DIGITAL WORLD PROGRAM (DORNSIFE COLLEGE OF LETTERS ARTS AND SCIENCES)
USC - Humanities in a Digital World Program. In January 2014 the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded USC a major grant designed to provide PhD candidates and post-doctoral fellows in the humanities with advanced skills relating to the digital humanities. Building on the success of USC Mellon Digital Humanities Program, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded USC a second grant in July 2017 to develop the USC Mellon Humanities in a Digital World Program.
This second grant draws strength from experience, but points in new directions with new partners. It anticipates that digital technologies are an ubiquitous part of scholarship across humanities fields. It addresses the need for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty to develop mastery of specific skills that will enable them to conduct research with the highest levels of expertise and cutting-edge methods.
The new program continues support for outstanding graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in the humanities at the same time that it builds connections across the university. It strengthens the collaborations with the USC School of Cinematic Arts and the USC Libraries and adds new partnerships with the USC Spatial Sciences Institute and the Claremont Colleges. The newly developed Humanities in a Digital World Program Summer Boot Camps offer week-long intensive training sessions taught by experts in multi-media rhetoric and visualization, GIS, and multi-media authoring in Scalar. The boot camps allow the expansion of access to expert training as they are open to graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty at USC as well as those from the Claremont Colleges.
COMPARATIVE MEDIA AND CULTURE PROGRAM (DORNSIFE COLLEGE OF LETTERS ARTS AND SCIENCES)
Comparative Media and Culture. As one of three tracks in the Doctoral Program in Comparative Studies in Literature and Cultures (CSLC), this track allows students to study varied media—visual, print, sound, digital—from a comparative perspective and to deepen their understanding of the specific cultural, historical, and linguistic contexts of different media works. With advanced competence in at least one language other than English and in addition to CSLC courses, Track I students are able to take graduate courses in the foreign language departments (East Asian, French, Italian, Spanish, and so forth) as well as other appropriate departments such as Critical Studies in the School of Cinematic Arts.
INTERACTIVE MEDIA & GAMES DIVISION PROGRAM (SCHOOL OF CINEMATIC ARTS)
Interactive Media and Games Division The Interactive Media & Games Division in the USC School of Cinematic Arts is a vibrant community of students and faculty dedicated to providing leadership in the education, creation, study and research of interactive media and digital arts.
Students emerge as thought leaders, fluent in many forms of media, with the sophistication to design and create innovative experiences that expand the state of interactive art and play. The multidisciplinary faculty - composed of artists, industry professionals, and researchers - creates digital media scholarship, media art, games, and experiences that integrate and impact the world at large.
This Program includes Game Innovation Lab The Game Innovation Lab is a research lab led by Professor Tracy Fullerton, and housed within the Interactive Media Division in USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. The mission of the lab is to pursue experimental design of games in cultural realms including art, science, politics and learning.
MEDIA ARTS + PRACTICE - DOCTORAL PROGRAM (SCHOOL OF CINEMATIC ARTS)
Media Arts + Practice - Doctoral Program The Division of Media Arts + Practice is devoted to exploring the potentials of storytelling, media design, scholarly expression and emergent digital technologies. The program is ideal for students who are interested in the expanded array of cinematic technologies that can be used for critical, creative expression of ideas, as well as those who want to harness the power of the cinematic arts for communication and interaction across professional disciplines.
USC CULTURAL HERITAGE PROGRAM
USC’s Master of Heritage Conservation (MHC) Program prepares students to strengthen communities using existing places and the stories they tell. Offering the only master’s degree of its kind on the West Coast, the program focuses on cultural and intangible heritage, the impact of under recognized communities on the built environment (and vice versa), and modernism and the recent past.
The Heritage Conservation programs at USC include:
- Master of Heritage Conservation/Master of Building Science
- Master of Heritage Conservation/Master of Landscape Architecture + Urbanism
- Master of Heritage Conservation/Master of Urban Planning
- Graduate Certificate in Heritage Conservation
- Heritage Conservation Summer Course
The typical MHC degree program spans two years, though students may apply for advanced standing. The USC Master of Heritage Conservation program is a proud member of the National Council for Preservation Education.
To learn more contact USC/MHC Director Trudi Sandmeier for a conversation.
Cultural Heritage Infrastructures in Digital Humanities by Call Number: Available OnlineISBN: 9781317156512Publication Date: 2017-09-22What are the leading tools and archives in digital cultural heritage? How can they be integrated into research infrastructures to better serve their intended audiences? In this book, authors from a wide range of countries, representing some of the best research projects in digital humanities related to cultural heritage, discuss their latest findings, both in terms of new tools and archives, and how they are used (or not used) by both specialists and by the general public.
Digital Techniques for Documenting and Preserving Cultural Heritage by Call Number: Available OnlineISBN: 1942401353Publication Date: 2018-01-08In this unique collection the authors present a wide range of interdisciplinary methods to study, document, and conserve material cultural heritage. The methods used serve as exemplars of best practice with a wide variety of cultural heritage objectshaving been recorded, examined, and visualised. The objects range in date, scale, materials, and state of preservation and sopose different research questions and challenges for digitization, conservation, and ontological representation of knowledge. Heritage science and specialist digital technologies are presented in a way approachable to non-scientists, while a separate technical section provides details of methods and techniques, alongside examples of notable applications of spatial and spectral documentation of material cultural heritage, with selected literature and identification of future research. This book is an outcome of interdisciplinary research and debates conducted by the participants of the COST Action TD1201, Colour and Space in Cultural Heritage, 2012-16 and is an Open Access publication available under a CC BY-NC-ND licence.
Heritage and Archaeology in the Digital Age by Call Number: Available OnlineISBN: 9783319653693Publication Date: 2017-11-24This book examines how computer-based programs can be used to acquire 'big' digital cultural heritage data, curate, and disseminate it over the Internet and in 3D visualization platforms with the ultimate goal of creating long-lasting digital heritage repositories.' The organization of the book reflects the essence of new technologies applied to cultural heritage and archaeology. Each of these stages bring their own challenges and considerations that need to be dealt with. The authors in each section present case studies and overviews of how each of these aspects might be dealt with. While technology is rapidly changing, the principles laid out in these chapters should serve as a guide for many years to come. (…). Together with all the chapters in this volume, the authors will help archaeologists, researchers interested in the digital humanities and scholars who focus on digital cultural heritage to assess where the field is and where it is going.
Routledge Companion to Global Heritage Conservation by Call Number: Available OnlineISBN: 9781315659060Publication Date: 2019-02-12The act of identifying, protecting, restoring, and reusing buildings, districts, and built landscapes of historic and cultural significance is, at its best, a reflective and consequential process of urban and socio-economic reform. It has the potential to reconcile conflicting memories, meanings, and cultural tensions, bridging and expanding the perceived boundaries of multiple disciplines towards bigger aspirations of city-making and social justice. How and where do such aspirations overlap and differ across nations and societies across the world? In places with different histories, governance structures, regulatory stringency, and populist dispositions, who are the specific players, and what are the actual processes that bring about bigger and deeper change beyond just the conservation of an architectural or urban entity of perceived value? This collection of scholarly articles by theorists, academics, and practitioners explores the global complexity, guises, and potential of heritage conservation.
