Abstract:

The Faculty of Philology of the University of Belgrade intends to incorporate the course Digital Humanities within its university curriculum at the MA level of studies with the intention of bringing this relatively new scientific field closer to students. Future graduates will develop, by attending this course, critical thinking on the implications of digitization in all spheres of social life, protection of cultural heritage and level of access to knowledge. Students will also master the methodology and search techniques specific to digital humanities and digital culture in general. We will strive to clarify the work and concepts of information retrieval systems to course participants, as well as to introduce them to the systems on which they are based upon, such as: indexing, classification, clustering, summarization, exploration and extraction. Some of the topics that will be covered during the theoretical part of teaching will include the following: migration of cultural content from a „real“ into the electronic environment, organization of traditional and digital information, digital media and their social role, implications of digitizing on all scientific fields related to the organization of knowledge and knowledge management, etc. Within this paper, we intend to emphasize how this course could enrich the existing curricula of the Faculty of Philology, as well as indicate how the skills, acquired by students upon the completion of this course, will match ever-changing field of digital culture. We will also take into a consideration the concepts of digitization, digital culture, digital information, digital media, organization of knowledge and knowledge management in order to accentuate the impact that this course could have on improvement of the level of media and digital literacy within the university framework, as well as at the state level.

Keywords:

Digital Humanities, digitization, digital culture, information retrieval systems, cultural content, digital information, digital media, organization of knowledge, knowledge management, media and digital literacy.