Courses

Upcoming Semesters

• Summer 2026

  Undergraduate

  COM4561 Strategic Social Media (Hybrid, Summer A)

  Strategic social media prepares students with industry-standard skills and techniques to utilize a variety of new and social media platforms for organizational purposes. Exploring professional uses of social media across a variety of industries, students examine the strategy and outcomes associated with digital content management, campaign planning, consumer engagement and interaction, social listening, online brand and reputation management, ethics and governance. Using historical milestones, case studies, emerging theories, and best practices, students come to recognize and understand the innovative and ever-evolving nature of the contemporary new media landscape in applied, pragmatic, and theoretical contexts.

  COP2220 Programming I (in-person, Summer A; DL, Summer C)

  This course provides an introduction to problem solving techniques and the computer programming process. Topics in the course include data types, operations, expressions, flow control, I/O, functions, program structure, software design techniques, and memory allocation. Course concepts are reinforced with many programming projects throughout the course.

  COP3503 3 Programming II (in-person, Summer A and B)

  This course serves as a continuation to the Programming I course. Students are shown additional fundamental concepts of problem solving using the object-oriented paradigm and data structures. The topics in this course include classes, interfaces, objects, class types, events, exceptions, control structures, polymorphism, inheritance, linked lists, arrays, stacks, queues, and deques. Students are expected to apply these concepts through the construction of numerous small software systems using both integrated development environments and command-line- driven tools that support editing, testing, and debugging.

  DIG4152 Digital Editing and Digital Archives (DL, Summer B)

  This workshop-style course engages students in Digital Humanities research through hands-on work in the transcription, markup, and online publication of archival texts related to the history of North Florida. Participants will also examine theoretical and practical aspects of building digital archives.

  ENC4403 Grant Writing (in-person, Summer, B)

  This course will show students how to develop grant writing skills. Students will study the rhetorical, resource, and writing opportunities in grant proposal writing and learn how to identify and engage with grant-making organizations.

  GIS3043 Introduction to GIS (DL, Summer A)

  This course is designed to give students an introduction to the basic concepts, theory, and methods of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Concepts and theory will be supplemented by hands-on experience with GIS software.

  Graduate

  HIS5934 Digital Editing and Digital Archives (DL, Summer B)

  This workshop-style course engages students in Digital Humanities research through hands-on work in the transcription, markup, and online publication of archival texts related to the history of North Florida. Participants will also examine theoretical and practical aspects of building digital archives.

  GEO6506 Economic Geography and GIS (DL, Summer B)

• Fall 2026

  Undergraduate

  ANT4931 Special Topics: Museums and Memory (synchronous online)

  This course explores how museums are powerful repositories and sites for remembrance, identity and imagination.

  ANT 3321 Peoples and Cultures of Mexico (in-person, Honors option)

  This course introduces undergraduate students to some of the peoples and cultures of Mexico, past and present. Students will explore historical texts, ethnographic readings and multimodal media (including film, music, literature and art) to examine issues shaping identity, indigeneity, colonialism, mestizaje, and cultural and economic struggle and success in Mexico. Students will come to understand that there are “many Mexicos,” that can be regionally, ethnically, and economically defined. Using creative and digital technologies and representations, students will challenge long-held stereotypes and generalizations about Mexican peoples and cultures. The course does not provide a comprehensive inventory of the hundreds of indigenous and multicultural groups that have inhabited the region but, rather, uses anthropological theory and methods to encourage in-depth study of regions (i.e. borderlands, Oaxaca, Mexico City, Chiapas), groups and languages (i.e. Zapotec, Nahuatl, Mexican Sign Language, Spanglish) and issues familiar to many human groups (i.e. colonialism, health and illness, gender, globalization, transnationalism and other socio-political structures, including NAFTA).

  COM4561 Strategic Social Media (DL and in-person)

  Strategic social media prepares students with industry-standard skills and techniques to utilize a variety of new and social media platforms for organizational purposes. Exploring professional uses of social media across a variety of industries, students examine the strategy and outcomes associated with digital content management, campaign planning, consumer engagement and interaction, social listening, online brand and reputation management, ethics and governance. Using historical milestones, case studies, emerging theories, and best practices, students come to recognize and understand the innovative and ever-evolving nature of the contemporary new media landscape in applied, pragmatic, and theoretical contexts.

  COM 4373: Consequences of Cyberculture (DL)

  Consequences of Cyberculture presents an advanced, comprehensive, and critical examination of interpersonal, organizational, and social implications created by the Internet. The Internet and associated digital communication technologies have changed the way that humans around the globe interact, and have created a dynamic cultural shift in human communication behavior. This course will explore how the social web and emerging communication technologies facilitate, influence, and effect globalization, human relationships, social interaction, civic engagement, social discourse, privacy, and ethics. The processes of relationship formation and maintenance, information dissemination, mobile communication, and the transmission of messages instantaneously, virally, and cross-culturally are also examined.

  COP2220 Programming I (in-person)

  This course provides an introduction to problem solving techniques and the computer programming process. Topics in the course include data types, operations, expressions, flow control, I/O, functions, program structure, software design techniques, and memory allocation. Course concepts are reinforced with many programming projects throughout the course.

  COP3503 3 Programming II (in-person)

  This course serves as a continuation to the Programming I course. Students are shown additional fundamental concepts of problem solving using the object-oriented paradigm and data structures. The topics in this course include classes, interfaces, objects, class types, events, exceptions, control structures, polymorphism, inheritance, linked lists, arrays, stacks, queues, and deques. Students are expected to apply these concepts through the construction of numerous small software systems using both integrated development environments and command-line- driven tools that support editing, testing, and debugging.

  ENC4403 Grant Writing (DL)

  This course will show students how to develop grant writing skills. Students will study the rhetorical, resource, and writing opportunities in grant proposal writing and learn how to identify and engage with grant-making organizations.

  GIS3043 3 Introduction to GIS (in-person)

  This course is designed to give students an introduction to the basic concepts, theory, and methods of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Concepts and theory will be supplemented by hands-on experience with GIS software.

  GIS4048 Intermediate GIS (DL)

  This course expands on the concepts, techniques, and theories introduced in GIS 3043. Students will learn advanced techniques of spatial data creation and advanced methods of spatial analysis.

  IDH 1923 Colloquium ACA- GIS 1 and 2 (in-person; Honors Freshmen only; CRN numbers TBA).

  This section of American Coming of Age has as its service project a digital humanities project that explores Jacksonville’s immigration history by mapping a census. Students will learn how to transcribe census data and then plot their information in a map. The map begins with the 1855 census and will proceed forward from there, eventually including 100 years of census data that will give us granular information about Jacksonville’s neighborhoods and a map of the growth and movements of immigrant communities.
  
  FIL4361 The Documentary Podcast (in-person)

  In Documentary Podcasting, students make audio documentaries that aim for a standard worthy of an online presence for public consumption. Students capture documentary material through audio—interviews, soundscapes, sound effects, environmental immersion, scripted voice-over, archive, diaries, and music—in order to craft complex, creative podcasts. They learn recording technique and equipment; research skills; narrative and scripted organization; documentary experimentation; interview styles and techniques; and audio editing. Past podcasts on the subjects of Jacksonville’s hurricane preparedness, Me Too cases, motels of Jacksonville, life after incarceration, sugar babies, and what it means to be the only black person in the room will be available for listening soon on AfterImage’s website.
  
  FIL3363 Documentary Production (in-person)

  The documentary films we make in this class have only one rule: they must use real life as their raw material. Portraits, investigations, poetic montages, compilations, interviews, histories— practicing a range of documentary styles and narratives will open students to the creative possibilities of documentary film while keeping them responsible to the social and natural worlds they capture. This course is a boot camp in independent filmmaking that teaches students—beginner and advanced alike, from any field—a disciplined process of planning, shooting, recording, organizing, scripting, and editing a film. Several small film productions teach students the documentary attitude along with technical competence and increasing documentary skill as we move from Fall through Spring. The Fall and Spring Documentary Production courses are designed as a two-course sequence, with the Spring semester ending in a public screening. Take the Fall course to get to the Spring course. We are a welcoming, supportive, and ambitious community. Any questions, contact Dr. Jillian Smith. 

  LAS3050 (FC) Latin American Digital Humanities (DL)

  This course explores intersections between technology and culture in the study of Latin America today. Students analyze ways that scholars, archivists, and others use digital tools and methodologies to recover and repatriate cultural heritage, access new voices, construct communities, and address injustice. The projects studied employ a variety of methods, including mapping and spatial analysis, oral history, the online publication of archival materials, and the construction of digital archives. In studying these projects, we consider ways that digital scholarship in and about Latin America reflects particular characteristics that are informed by the cultures and history of the region. The language of instruction is English.

  SPN3350 Spanish for Heritage Speakers (in-person)

  This course is specifically designed for heritage language learners are those who are proficient in English and grew up speaking Spanish at home. They are able to communicate in Spanish but do not always have the ability or confidence to use the language in formal contexts. The course has two fundamental goals: (1) to reinforce and expand students' general knowledge of their cultures and (2) to use that cultural foundation to develop language skills in multiple contexts. Special attention is given to vocabulary building, the acquisition and effective use of learning strategies, and strengthening Spanish writing skills. Cultural and technological projects such as podcasts, as well as readings, will give students a broader perspective on Latino cultures abroad and in the U.S. The course is taught exclusively in Spanish.

  Graduate

  FIL5934 ST: Adv. Doc. Podcast Audio (in-person)

  GIS6051 GIS and Geo Tech (in-person)

Recent Semesters

• Spring 2025

  ANT 4620: Language, Culture, and Society

  This course examines how individuals create and perform their social identities through and in response to language. As a final project, students will craft a Digital Story in stages to connect an aspect of their identities to a concept from the course.

  ANT 3321: Peoples & Cultures of Mexico

  This course introduces undergraduate students to some of the peoples and cultures of Mexico, past and present. Students will explore historical texts, ethnographic readings and multimodal media (including film, music, literature and art) to examine issues shaping identity, indigeneity, colonialism, mestizaje, and cultural and economic struggle and success in Mexico. Students will come to understand that there are “many Mexicos,” that can be regionally, ethnically, and economically defined. Using creative and digital technologies and representations, students will challenge long-held stereotypes and generalizations about Mexican peoples and cultures. The course does not provide a comprehensive inventory of the hundreds of indigenous and multicultural groups that have inhabited the region but, rather, uses anthropological theory and methods to encourage in-depth study of regions (i.e. borderlands, Oaxaca, Mexico City, Chiapas), groups and languages (i.e. Zapotec, Nahuatl, Mexican Sign Language, Spanglish) and issues familiar to many human groups (i.e. colonialism, health and illness, gender, globalization, transnationalism and other socio-political structures, including NAFTA).

  ANT 4931: People and Cultures of South Asia

  This course asks students to explore aspects of anthropological study in the region of South Asia. Digital Humanities methods are included in a final project where students are asked to create Digital Story to connect a topic or aspect about South Asia to a concept from class materials in narrative exposition.

  ANT 4020: Humans, Animals and Culture

  Are you fascinated by animal behavior, the human-animal bond, or how people came to domesticate many animals around the world? This course will explore interactions between humans and animals by using an anthropological perspective. We will examine how humans are entwined with other animals through social, economic and ideological systems. Students will research animal roles in different cultures over time. They will analyze and share their findings through digital story maps in ArcGIS.

  COM 4561: Strategic Social Media 

  This course prepares students with industry-standard skills and techniques to utilize a variety of legacy and emerging social media platforms for organizational and strategic purposes. Exploring professional uses and trends of social media across a variety of platforms for organizational and strategic purposes. Exploring professional uses and trends of social media across a variety of industries, students examine the implementation and outcomes associated with the core pillars of social presence online, including Strategy (social listening, strategy v. campaigns, targeting audiences), Planning (digital content management, reputation & branding, and risk and crisis assessment), Implementation (engaging with consumers, social CRM), and Assessment (SMART goals, metric & analytics). This course is re-designed (2023) as a community-based transformational learning (CBTL) experience as a part of the UNF Community Scholars Program (CSP-Cohort 14) through the Office of Faculty Excellence (OFE). Students will apply their knowledge and skills in social media strategy through coursework collaboration with a Community Partner. 

  COM 4373: Consequences of Cyberculture

  This semester, we will explore the Consequences of Cyberculture in an interactive, online learning experience, presenting an advanced, comprehensive, and critical examination of interpersonal, organizational, and social implications created by the internet. The internet and associated digital communication technologies have changed the way that humans around the globe interact and have created a dynamic cultural shift in human communication behavior. This course will explore how the social web and emerging communication technologies facilitate, influence, and affect globalization, human relationships, social interaction, civic engagement, social discourse, privacy, and ethics. The processes of relationship formation and maintenance, information dissemination, mobile communication, and the transmission of messages instantaneously, virally, and cross-culturally are also examined.

  DIG 3930 ST: Digital Public Humanities

  This course examines ways that scholars and cultural heritage institutions employ digital tools and methodologies to conduct work that reaches beyond academic spaces and involves diverse publics. Students will analyze a variety of digital public humanities projects, including several that are based at UNF and that involve UNF students as collaborators. 

  ENC 4930/5930: Advanced Topics in Technical Writing/Topics in Digital Humanities

  This Topics in Digital Humanities course is designed around the ways in which we study and design interactive media, focusing especially on video games. In this course, students will learn foundational theory and research practices in game studies, practice rhetorical analysis of video games, create a research plan, complete their own user-observation research, create a simple interactive media project (no coding necessary), and begin developing a portfolio to showcase their professional work. 

  ENC 4436: Writing as Social Action

  Writing as Social Action is a course designed to allow students to learn about professional communication, explore rhetoric, research local history and initiatives, and compose their own public writing to help local communities. Throughout this course, students will learn more about rhetoric and environmental communication, reflect on their relationship with environments and rhetoric, learn about local initiatives, create a public communication product (or equivalent), test their design, and develop a portfolio. 

  FIL 4379: Advanced Documentary Production

  Students are expected to have taken Documentary Production in a fall semester or otherwise have permission from Dr. Jillian Smith. (If this course appeals to you, plan on taking the two-course sequence through fall and spring in the future—meeting days and times will remain the same). This class will lay the foundation for the art of documentary by understanding and practicing documentary style and technique. Practicing a range of documentary styles and narratives will open students to the creative possibilities of documentary film, and thorough technical competency will enable them to be realized.

  FOT 3931 (FC): Latin American Digital Humanities

  This course explores intersections between technology and culture in the study of Latin America today. We analyze digital projects based throughout the region that examine the conflicts, tensions, and transformations that have defined Latin America from 1492 to the present. The language of instruction is English.

  ANT 2000: Introduction to Anthropology 

  This course introduces undergraduate students to the discipline of anthropology, the scientific and cross-cultural study of humans. Anthropology encompasses four major subfields: physical anthropology, archaeology, anthropological linguistics, and cultural anthropology.

  LIT 4934: Writing Creatively and Critically in the Archives

  This seminar will focus on creative and critical approaches to writing about, with, against, and around archival documents and objects. Part of the seminar will cover the basics of archival research and discovery: What are archives and special collections? How do archivists process collections so that researchers can access them? How do archivists think and write critically about their own methods? We will also consider how creative writers have used archival materials to create new forms, fill gaps in the historical record, or write against official documents.  

  SPN 2201: Spanish Intermediate II

  SPN2201 advances intermediate-level language skills, emphasizing speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Students will develop multimodal literacy by annotating 3D objects and virtual reality environments.

  SPN 3242: Spanish Conversation

  This intermediate-level course focuses on enhancing conversational skills in Spanish through directed topics. Students will analyze texts in Spanish using digital text analysis to discuss vocabulary context and create multimodal digital stories using Scalar.

  SPN 3300: Composition in Spanish

  This course enhances students' writing abilities and comprehension of the complexities of the Spanish language. Through digital humanities tools (statistical analysis of texts), texts are adapted for people with reading difficulties using the Easy-to-Read criteria. 

  SPN 1134: Accelerated Beginning Spanish 

  In this online beginning Spanish course, you'll engage in real-time conversations with native coaches through LinguaMeeting, practice with AI language buddies, and build multimodal literacy by annotating 3D objects and creating virtual reality environments. You'll also develop vocabulary in Spanish through creating prompt crafting and turning language learning into an immersive, hands-on experience. 

• Fall 2024

  ANT4620 Language, Culture, and Society

  ANT4931 People and Cultures of South Asia

  ANT4020 Humans, Animals and Culture

  ENC3250 Professional Communications (Sindelar)

  ENC4260 Applied Technical Communication

  FIL4379 Advanced Documentary Production

  FOT3931 (FC) Latin American Digital Humanities

  SPN2201 Spanish Intermediate II

  SPN3242 Spanish Conversation

  SPN3300 Composition in Spanish

• Spring 2024
  ANT4620 Language, Culture, and Society
  
  ANT4931 People and Cultures of South Asia
  
  ANT4020 Humans, Animals and Culture
  
  ENC3250 Professional Communications
  
  ENC4260 Applied Technical Communication
  
  FIL4379 Advanced Documentary Production
  
  FOT3931 (FC) Latin American Digital Humanities
  
  SPN2201 Spanish Intermediate II
  
  SPN3242 Spanish Conversation
  
  SPN3300 Composition in Spanish