Offered each Fall and Spring semester (Fall 2025 syllabus)
Discover methods in digital studies, especially text analysis, digital mapping, and network analysis. Learn to explore and ask questions about websites and digital projects that you encounter, and create a portfolio-worthy digital research project on a topic of your choosing.

Offered each Spring semester

Work together as a class to develop a digital project, building on your own experiences and expertise. Learn collaboration and project management skills. The topic and project changes each year, so students have the opportunity to create something new.

This course can be taken concurrently with DH285. The Intro course surveys methods and issues in Digital Studies, while the Practice course spends more time on one topic and method or set of methods. Students create projects in both courses – an individual project in DH285 and a group project in DH340.

Take two elective courses, with options from across several colleges and disciplines. Below is a list of regularly offered courses that count toward the Minor.

See a full list of upcoming course options.

• DH/ENG235 – Exploring Digital Humanities: History, Practice, and Speculation
• HST251 – Doing Digital History
• WRA210 – Introduction to Web Authoring
• WRA453 – Grant and Proposal Writing
• GSAH312 – Global Digital Cultures (DH285 counts as a prerequisite for GSAH312)
• ANP412 – Method and Practice in Digital Heritage
• LIN484L – Data Analysis for Linguists (DS students can get an override (prereq: LIN200 or LIN401)
• MUSM487 – Museums, Arts and Culture in the Digital Future (DS students can get an override (prereq: MUSM485))

Occasionally, courses not on the list may be approved for the Minor, at the discretion of the Digital Studies Advisor. For example, if a student completes a digital studies project as part of a course, then that course may count toward the Minor.

DH450: Digital Studies Capstone – is offered each Spring. It focuses on professionalization, connecting students with people in the field, at MSU and beyond. Students also build or enhance a digital portfolio website for use on the job market or graduate school preparation.

Alternative options for completing the Capstone experience include:

• DH493: Digital Studies Internship – Annual paid internship in the Digital Scholarship Lab at MSU Libraries; other opportunities shared with students as available and at the approval of the Adviser
• Study Abroad program with a digital studies focus: Digital Culture in London and Scotland Study Abroad or another program at the approval of the Adviser
• Work in a Digital Humanities Lab (for ex: Digital Scholarship Lab, MATRIX, Digital Humanities & Literary Cognition Lab, LEADR). This work can be done for no credit, but a portfolio of materials is still required. In order to still reach the required 15 credits for the Minor, students need to take a third elective course. Further details available from the Adviser.

Digital Culture in London and Scotland: This 4-week long program, offered each Summer, takes students to cultural and artistic institutions to learn from professionals about how digital approaches are shaping how people engage with museums, theatre productions, archives, and art installations. The program includes 2 courses and can be taken for 6-7 credits. Both courses count toward the Digital Studies Minor, where one counts as an elective and the other as the capstone.