Digital Liberal Arts
The Digital Liberal Arts Working Group at Ursinus (or DLA@UC) and the DLA Fellows promote conversation between the liberal arts and twenty-first century technologies.
The working group’s purpose is to:
Foster experimental thinking and understanding
- Validate new approaches to teaching and research/scholarly work and bridging the teacher/scholar divide
- Expose students more directly to subject areas: experiential in terms of unveiling method & messiness (complexity)
- Maintain flexibility in engaging a constantly shifting area
- Create a culture of accessibility
Support the integration of digital technologies into planning of courses/research teaching
- Provide training and help students, faculty, and staff acquire necessary tools
- Build and expand digital literacy (data management practices)
Advance the digital liberal arts beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries
- Introduce/integrate tools into multiple disciplines
- Create bridges for genuine interdisciplinary thinking and collaboration
- Balance practical and theoretical skills and concerns involved in digital work
- Foster student professional development
Document & promote digital initiatives on campus
- Promote/make visible contributions across campus
- Collaborate with Library/IT to support faculty & student projects
- Encourage open source/open access where possible & practical
Digital Liberal Arts Fellows
Faculty Digital Projects
Student Digital Projects
For more faculty and student digital projects, check out Digital Commons.