[Air-L] Pointers for Undergraduate degrees in Digital Cultures

[Catherine Brooks]

Our program was just approved as a major and minor degree in eSociety. While I am waiting for a more formal PR blurb, I thought I would share this in answer to your request. 
This program means to blend social science and computer tech. training into one interdisciplinary degree program. Our list of courses will be available soon, Catherine



http://sirls.arizona.edu/content/esociety-new-sirls-bachelor-arts-degree-or-undergraduate-minor-degree

 
Catherine F. Brooks, PhD, Assistant Professor
School of Information Resources and Library Science; Department of Communication, UA
http://catherinefbrooks.faculty.arizona.edu/
http://sirls.arizona.edu/

"If only Romeo and Juliet had had mobile phones, they might have lived happily ever after"
(Wellman and Rainie).



>________________________________
> From: Cuihua Shen <shencuihua at gmail.com>
>To: Nishant Shah <itsnishant at gmail.com> 
>Cc: air-l at listserv.aoir.org 
>Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 7:22 AM
>Subject: Re: [Air-L] Pointers for Undergraduate degrees in Digital Cultures
> 
>Dear Nishant,
>
>I believe our BA program in Emerging Media and Communication at University
>of Texas at Dallas is quite close to what you envision in the digital
>culture degree program. More info can be found here:
>http://emac.utdallas.edu
>
>All the best with your search. I'd be very interested in learning about
>other similar programs out there.
>
>Cindy
>-- 
>
>Cuihua (Cindy) Shen, Ph.D.
>Assistant Professor
>Emerging Media and Communication
>University of Texas at Dallas
>www.shencuihua.com
>
>
>
>On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 8:00 AM, Nishant Shah <itsnishant at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>> We are right now trying to conceptualise what an undergraduate degree
>> programme in Digital Cultures could look like. We have been trawling the
>> web but largely we come across graduate programmes that offer it as a
>> degree, and I was wondering if anybody has pointers on where to look and
>> what to keep in mind while trying to conceptualise a degree programme like
>> this.
>>
>> Links to programmes that you think are successful, or just reminders about
>> disciplines/stakes that need to be factored in to build a Bachelor's
>> programme that brings in Historical Review + Critical philosophy + Media
>> Studies + Social Science & Humanities Critique + Computing and Management
>> skills, with a global perspective would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> If you are already running courses in this field, also, do get in touch
>> because we are thinking of a distributed course creation, and would also be
>> able to commission existing experts from around the world to help us do the
>> design in the coming year or two.
>> Warmly
>> Nishant
>>
>> --
>> Nishant Shah
>> Director (Research), Centre for Internet and Society,Bangalore, India (
>> www.cis-india.org )
>> International Tandem Partner, Inkubator - Leuphana University, Lueneburg,
>> Germany
>> # +49-0176-841-660-87
>> http://www.facebook.com/nishant.shah
>> http://cis-india.academia.edu/NishantShah
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