The College of Humanities at Jeonbuk National University (JBNU) concluded the extracurricular program 'Exciting Digital Humanities Campus (신디인캠)', which was operated with support from the National University Promotion Project, with a final presentation.
Now in its fourth year, the program is the College of Humanities' flagship digital convergence extracurricular program. It aimed to strengthen students' data literacy and problem-solving skills through projects combining the humanities and digital technologies.
The program was designed based on the Humanics educational philosophy, which emphasizes the integration of humans, technology and data. It focused on cultivating creative, interdisciplinary talent by combining the traditional strengths of humanities majors ('Human DNA') with digital skills and data utilization capabilities ('Digital DNA'). The program also prioritized developing analytical and systems thinking using digital methodologies and fostering the new humanities literacies required in the digital era.
Professor Oh Hyo-jeong (Department of Library & Information Science) oversaw program management, and eleven faculty members from various departments within the College of Humanities participated as project advisors. Faculty and students from different academic backgrounds—including language disciplines such as Korean, English, Spanish and German, as well as history, library & information science and the Graduate School of Archives and Records Management—formed teams and provided close supervision so that projects could organically combine disciplinary characteristics with digital methodologies. This faculty–student collaborative structure is credited as the driving force that sustained the program for four years and as having laid the foundation for a convergent learning environment that crosses disciplinary boundaries.
The program comprised digital literacy training and a Digital Humanities boot camp. The digital literacy training combined lectures and hands‑on sessions focusing on data analysis and visualization tools. The Digital Humanities boot camp featured expert lectures on the era of digital transformation and mentoring linked to students' majors.
Eleven teams participated in the program and presented digital humanities projects reflecting their disciplinary characteristics. The judging panel awarded the Grand Prize to the team 'Runditor' (Department of Library & Information Science). The Excellence Awards went to '무연탄' (Department of Korean Language & Literature; Department of English Language & Literature; Department of Spanish Studies) and '사사게오' (Department of History). The Encouragement Awards were given to '진의지' (Graduate School of Archives and Records Management) and 'UnaZwai' (Department of Spanish Studies; Department of German Studies).
One professor who served on the judging panel said, 'I was impressed by the process in which students reinterpret humanistic questions through digital data and technology,' adding, 'The collaboration across majors and year levels demonstrated the potential of digital humanities education.'
Meanwhile, the College of Humanities at JBNU plans to develop the experience gained from this program into a foundational model for building an AX humanities education platform and to continue expanding digital-based humanities education.