Digital Cultures and Creativity
Digital Cultures and Creativity (DCC) is an interdisciplinary living and learning program for first- and second-year students. Students in DCC explore new media technologies through activities as varied as digital music and video production, digital art, creative electronic writing, virtual worlds, software development and entrepreneurship, and developing online communities. By learning, living, and collaborating within the DCC community, students are not only consumers, but also sophisticated makers and producers of new digital media.
Digital Cultures and Creativity enables highly talented students at the beginning of their careers to learn and create as part of a lively intellectual community focused on new media in relation to issues of cultural diversity, social and civic responsibility, and artistic innovation. As members of the DCC community, students will live and learn alongside of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), University of Maryland's world-class center for research in digital media. In the past two years alone MITH has done projects with the Library of Congress, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and Linden Lab, the creators of Second Life, among many other cultural institutions and high-tech partners. MITH is also the institutional home of the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO), the premier international group for writers, scholars, and technologists engaged in creating and studying literary new media. In addition, DCC students will take a variety of classes with top-notch (and technologically sophisticated) faculty from Art, Music, Theatre, English, History, and Women's Studies as well as the internationally acclaimed Computer Science, and Information School programs.
DCC advances students' existing skills as "digital natives" by making them critically conscious of the digital cultures in which they participate while also developing their abilities to work in creative ways with digital media across many areas of interest. The program is 16 credits over the freshman and sophomore year, including a practicum that culminates in a research project or major creative effort. Ten credits are specific to the program, and the remaining six credits will generally count toward University CORE requirements.
For more information, please contact Dr. Tanya Clement, Associate Director: tclement@umd.edu or 301-405-2866.
Related Links:
Maryland Institute for Technology in the
Humanities (MITH)
Electronic Literature Organization
The Shakespeare Quarto Archives
