The USC Humanities in a Digital World Program offers a non-credit summer tutorial led by one of our Doctoral Fellows.

  • This workshop is open to undergraduate students at USC and the Claremont Colleges.
  • Participants will receive $1,500 for participation.
  • Enrollment for each tutorial is limited to eight students.

To apply: email a CV/resume and a letter expressing your interest in the course to Humanities in a Digital World by May 5.

two Just Stop Oil activists in front a Vincent Van Gogh painting of Sunflowers which they have covered with soup
2023

Fuel for Thought: On the Energy that Drives Culture

Instructor: Grace Franklin
Department of English
USC Mellon Humanities in a Digital World Ph.D. Fellow
Course dates: June 30 – July 28, 2023

 

flyer that reads
2022

Code Collective Summer Lab

Instructor: Sarah Ciston
Department of Media, Arts, & Practice, USC School of Cinematic Arts
USC Mellon Humanities in a Digital World Ph.D. Fellow
Course dates: July 5-July 28, 2022

abstract image of yellow, green, and red
2021

Disruption: A Digital Writing Workshop for Socially Engaged Art Practice

Instructor: Muriel Leung
Department of English, Creative Writing and Literature
USC Mellon Humanities in a Digital World Ph.D. Fellow
Course dates: June 1 – 24, 2021

black and white photograph of two men admiring the Santa Clara fruit trees in bloom
2020

O’Pioneers! Reconsidering Computer History Through the Legacy of the American West

Instructor: Zachary M. Mann
Department of English
USC Humanities in a Digital World Ph.D. Fellow
Course dates: June 16 – July 9, 2020

a human skull wearing a VR headset
2019

Immersive Shakespearean Adaptations in New Media

Instructor: Betsy Sullivan
Department of English
USC Humanities in a Digital World Ph.D. Fellow
Course dates: May 28, 2019 – June 20, 2019

Pultizer Prize-winning photograph of U.S. Marines raising the American flag atop Mount Suribachi in Iwo Jima, Japan, in 1945. Joe Rosenthal took this photo.
2019

Front Page Pictures: News Images in Modern History

Instructor: Jonathan Dentler
Department of English
USC Humanities in a Digital World Ph.D. Fellow
Course dates: May 13, 2019 – June 7, 2019

a flyer with the text: Memory Scholarship: collective/individual memory, multidirectional memory, archives of memory, places and spaces of memory
2018

Media Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Digital Age

Instructor: Maria Zalewska
Department of Media, Arts, & Practice, USC School of Cinematic Arts
USC Mellon Ph.D. Fellow in the Digital Humanities
Course dates: May 22-June 14, 2018

a high rise building seen reflected in the windows of another high-rise building
2018

Digital Asia and Activism

Instructor: Melissa Mei-Lin Chan
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
USC Mellon Ph.D. Fellow in the Digital Humanities
Course dates: May 28-June 22, 2018

the human heart, displayed anatomically, in hot pink in front of a grey background
2018

Visualizing the U.S.-Mexico Border

Instructor: Nike Nivar Ortiz
Department of Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture
USC Mellon Ph.D. Fellow in the Digital Humanities
Course dates: June 4-June 28, 2018

a bright colored mural image of a seated woman in front of patterns of black lines
2017

Murals, Stained Glass, and Art for the Public

Instructor: Christopher J. McGeorge
Department of Art History
USC Mellon Digital Humanities Ph.D. Fellow
Course Dates: May 15-June 8, 2017

an ancient roman sarcophagus relief, a figure lies on their side, chest exposed, hand resting upon their hand as if they are sleeping
2017

When “Private” Becomes “Public”: Domestic and Funerary Art in the Ancient Roman World

Instructor: Ambra Spinelli
Department of Art History
USC Mellon Digital Humanities Ph.D. Fellow
Course Dates: May 15-June 7, 2017

two photographic images side by side, one of Adolf Hitler with his face screwed up tightly, on the next side, a floating image of Karl Marx's face over colorful rings
2017

Rich Remix: The Language of Video Appropriation

Instructor: Amber Rae Bowyer
Department of Media, Arts, & Practice, USC School of Cinematic Arts
USC Mellon Digital Humanities Ph.D. Fellow
Course Dates: June 6-29, 2017

Manga image of a blonde woman with a sword, at her neck she wears a cross
2016

Bodyguards and Assassins: Violent Women in Contemporary Japanese Popular Culture

Instructor: Amanda Kennell
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
USC Mellon Digital Humanities Ph.D. Fellow
Course Dates: July 5-29, 2016