Online Learning Update

January 11, 2015

New Stanford course brings Silicon Valley to the humanities classroom

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:10 am

BY IAN P. BEACOCK, Stanford

Students from computer science and the humanities join forces to create literary websites and mobile apps, combining their strengths to launch literature into the 21st century. Although inspired by Stanford’s new CS+X initiative – which allows students to study computer science in parallel with the humanities for a joint major degree – this course goes one step further, asking students from the two disciplines to collaborate on projects that unite technology and literature. The class looks and feels a lot like a start-up incubator in overdrive. In the space of only 10 weeks, students have gone from brainstorming to beta testing and publicly releasing their creations.

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2015/january/humanities-cs-class-010515.html

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