国外数字人文课程透视——兼议我国数字人文课程设置及人才培养

Foreign Digital Humanities Courses——On the Curriculum and Talent Training of Chinese Digital Humanities Courses

数字人文成为近年人文社会科学的研究热点,然而我国在有关数字人文课程设置及人才培养方面尚未形成系统的框架体系。文章借助文献计量学方法确定国外核心数字人文科研机构,最终选取英国和美国各三所有影响力的大学,从课程方案、课程结构、课程层次和培养目标四个维度对数字人文课程设置进行透视;进而结合我国数字人文相关领域的教育现状,提出我国数字人文课程及人才培养建议。研究发现:英国学位课程较为完备,美国虽无学位课程,但培养途径较为多元;英美数字人文课程涉及的学科种类较多,跨学科特征明显,均依托于计算机学院或信息学院的资源和平台,计算机科学和图书情报学发力明显;相较于传统学科课程,英美数字人文课程选修课设置比例较高;英美培养目标既具有趋同性,也存在较大差异,美国侧重于独立完成学术研究及项目的能力,英国更注重数字素养的培养,强调专业性和职业选择性。

As a rapidly growing interdisciplinary science, Digital Humanities has attracted more and morescholars in related fields and become the focus of humanistic and social science in recent years. However, thecurriculum and the talent training system of digital humanities in China's Mainland have not formed. This paper picks up the core scientific research institutions of digital humanities by bibliometrics and selects three universities fromthe United Kingdom and the United States. The authors perform an analysis on the digital humanities courses inthose universities by exploring their curriculum schemes,curriculum structures,curriculum levels and trainingtargets. Given the education status of digital humanities in related fields,this paper makes suggestions on thedigital humanities courses and talent training in China. The results show that 1） degree courses in the UK arerelatively complete. Although there is no degree course in the United States, there are many ways for digitalhumanities training; 2） as the courses in the two countries involve many disciplines, digital humanities ischaracterized distinctively as an interdisciplinary science,mostly depending on the resources and platforms ofcomputer colleges or schools of information; 3） compared with traditional curriculum, digital humanitiescurriculum have a higher proportion of elective courses. The training targets of digital humanities in the UK and theUSA not only converge,but also differ greatly：the United States focuses on the ability training for accomplishingscientific academic researches and projects independently;while the United Kingdom cares more about digitalliteracy,emphasizing professionalism and career choice.