Thursday, August 18, 2011

Universities Link Humanities With Science and Technology



they are getting free iPads. Students who participate in the new honors program in digital culture and creativity at the University of Maryland this fall, they promised to tablet PCs as part of the launch. This same institution also offers courses in electronic literature and new media, covering areas such as online books and electronic book readers.

"People go in the humanities, because they do not like technology, but today I really can not separate them," program director Matthew Kirschenbaum said in the July issue of the university student newspaper, DiamondbackOnline. At this same institution, the Institute for Technology in the humanities for the creation and preservation of electronic literature, digital games and virtual svjetova.Institut claims his home international group dedicated to writing, publishing and reading of electronic literature.

In computer science and English departments, the Institute has provided a 2.0 student book prototype electronic reading device. His audio archive including discussions regarding the project, as well as for mobile applications that support children's storytelling and the Smithsonian Art Museum of alternate reality games. Organizations and off college and university campuses, in fact, tie the humanities to technology, as well as areas such as science.

Institute at Virginia University, for example, partners with libraries, publishers, information technology companies and others in the humanities computing initiative, according to its Web stranici.Institut offers colleges and universities, as well as cultural, nonprofit, government and business organizations , consulting, programming and data services in areas such as cultural heritage of three-dimensional computer modeling, Java and Perl programming and web database, according to its Web site. Visitors to the site can access the digital collections of African American poetry, the early American fiction by authors such as Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott and Harriet Beecher Stowe, as well as in English plays of William Shakespeare and others. Digital audio databases include African-American songs and American music by composers such as Duke Ellington and Cole Porter.

Humanities and Technology Association, which is not affiliated with any institution, dates from 1978 and promotes understanding of the interaction between the humanities, science, technology and tehnologije.Humanističke Science and Technology Review magazine covers research association of Japanese cultural values ​​and how their values influence the development of its nuclear policy and the aesthetics of Digital Cinema in movies like "Miami Vice" the exploitation of technology capabilities and limitations to create new aesthetics. The second article addresses that computers can impair or enhance student learning.

Industries want scientists who can understand the application of intellectual property rights and issues of equality, human consciousness and multiple perspectives, the co-founder of Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory. This special group was formed in 2002 as a response to the reduced role of humanities in the information age, according to its Web site. "Changes in the information age requires us to think and act collectively provide new ways of learning to serve the goals of global society", a group of web-notes.

In addition to courses such as English literature, humanities degrees online and on campus may include classes in history, philosophy, culture, ethics and much toga.Suosnivači Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory are universities on the east and the west coast of the United States. In an essay stating the central humanistic studies in relation to the research capabilities of the technology scope and implication, they stressed that include humanities exploring the meaning, value and significance, and that humanists to connect old and new, and then turn the best of both.

Faculty of Engineering University of Connecticut this fall plans to launch a bachelor's degree in sustainability, which includes research in the humanities, according to a recent article in the Connecticut News Journal.Stupanj offers a holistic approach to their web site suggests. Classes include global solutions for sustainability, research methods in sustainability and contemporary art and environmental issues, Business Journal noted.

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