Provisional University Bulletin (2025-2026)

Digital Literacy

Objectives

The ability to engage in the digital world plays an increasingly important role in intellectual life. Every discipline has been affected by the digital revolution in its own way. Students will master the critical digital resources and techniques relevant to the scholarly or creative endeavors of their discipline.

Learning Goals

Digital Literacy learning goals might include one or more of the following abilities:

  • The ability to evaluate the validity of digital sources.
  • The ability to create original work in a digital medium or a work of scholarship that engages digital media.
  • The ability to discover, create, analyze, present, and reason about large sets of disciplinary relevant data.
  • The ability to negotiate intellectual property, for example, copyright and appropriation of works of art.
  • The ability to solve disciplinary problems using scripting languages.
  • The ability to discover and utilize appropriate digital tools (including software and databases).

Digital approaches and tools will be specific to each field and may change over time.

How to Fulfill the Requirement

The writing intensive requirement will be satisfied as defined in the requirements for each major.

Courses of Instruction

Departments and programs will outline the options available to declared majors in their individual sections of the Bulletin.