UCLA launches nation’s first digital humanities department

Seeing technology through a human lens: UCLA’s new Department of Digital Humanities brings humanistic inquiry to the technologies transforming our world — and puts those technologies to work exploring the human experience. (Credit: David Esquivel/UCLA)
UCLA has launched the nation’s first independent digital humanities department — and will offer the first bachelor’s degree in the field. The new department brings together the humanities, technology and data science to explore how digital tools are changing society and how they can better serve people.
With strong student interest and more than 20 years of digital humanities research at UCLA, the department will prepare students to use technology thoughtfully and responsibly.
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