Certificate Requirements

Current requirements: 12 semester hours

Introduction to Digital Humanities or Digital History; this requirement may currently be fulfilled by either:
- ENGL 7370 – Topics in Digital Humanities: Introduction to Digital Humanities (4 SH) or
- HIST 7370 – Texts, Maps, and Networks: Readings and Methods for Digital History (4 SH)
Two semesters of INSH 7910 – NULab Project Seminar (2 SH each semester, 4 SH total)
One DH elective from the list below (4 SH each):*
- ARTG 5100 – Information Design Studio 1—Principles
- ARTG 5120 – Research Methods for Design
- ARTG5150 – Information Visualization Principles & Practices
- CS 6120 – Natural Language Processing
- CS 7290 – Special Topics in Data Science
- CS 7250 – Information Visualization: Theory and Applications
- CS 7260 – Visualization for Network Science
- ENGL 7380 – Topics in Digital Humanities: The Shape of Data in the Humanities
- ENGL 7380 – Topics in Digital Humanities: Queer Digital Curation
- ENGL 7380 – Topics in Digital Humanities: Reading Machines: Technology and the Book
- HIST 7219 – Humanities Data Analysis
- HIST 7219 – Digital Space and Place
- HIST 7250 – Topics in Public History
- INSH 6406 – Analyzing Complex Digitized Data
- INSH 5301 – Introduction to Computational Statistics
- INSH 5302 – Information Design and Visual Analytics
- JRNL 6341 – Telling Your Story with Data
- JRNL 6340 – Fundamentals of Digital Storytelling
- JRNL 6355 – Seminar in Investigative Reporting
- POLS G7334 – Social Network Analysis
- PPUA 5263 – Geographic Information Systems for Urban and Regional Policy
Final project: a final independent DH research project located in the student’s home program (such as a thesis, or a portion thereof) or a collaborative DH project with substantial student participation. The final project will be overseen by the NULab faculty members teaching the NULab Project Seminar during its development; NULab workshop instructors will advise students on their projects and help students get guidance from other faculty as appropriate. Final projects will be submitted with three components: the project itself, a written project description of about 3,000 words, and a presentation to the NULab community. The DH Certificate Committee will formally approve all final projects. For more on the final project, including detailed requirements and example student projects, see here.

*Additional courses may be added to the above list with the approval of the DH Certificate Committee.

For course descriptions see here; for upcoming courses see here.

Note: Students enrolled in the DH Certificate prior to the fall of 2018 will also have the option of completing their programs under the previous requirements, outlined below.

Requirements for students who enrolled prior to 2018: 12 semester hours

Introduction to Digital Humanities or Digital History; this requirement may currently be fulfilled by either:
- ENGL 7370 – Topics in Digital Humanities: Introduction to Digital Humanities (3 SH) or
- HIST 7370 – Texts, Maps, and Networks: Readings and Methods for Digital History (3 SH)
3 semesters of INSH 7910 – NULab Project Seminar (1 SH each semester, 3 SH total)
Two DH electives from the list below (3-4 SH each):*
- ARTG 5100 – Information Design Studio 1—Principles
- ARTG 5120 – Information Design Research Methods
- ARTG5150 – Information Visualization Principles & Practices
- CS 6120 – Natural Language Processing
- CS 7290 – Special Topics in Data Science: Visualization for Network Science
- ENGL 7380 – Topics in Digital Humanities: The Shape of Data in the Humanities
- ENGL 7380 – Topics in Digital Humanities: Reading Machines: Technology and the Book
- ENGL 7380 – Topics in Digital Humanities: Queer Digital Curation
- DSSH 6302 – Information Design and Visual Analytics
- HIST 7219 – Humanities Data Analysis
- HIST 7219 – Digital Space and Place
- HIST 7250 – Topics in Public History
- INSH 6406 – Analyzing Complex Digitized Data
- JRNL 6341 – Telling Your Story with Data
- JRNL 6340 – Fundamentals of Digital Storytelling
- JRNL 6355 – Seminar in Investigative Reporting
- POLS G7334 – Social Network Analysis
- PPUA 6301 – Introduction to Computational Statistics
- MA theses and directed studies for English, History, and Journalism (ENGL 7990, ENGL 7976, HIST 7990, HIST 7976, JRNL 7990, JRNL 7976) may also be counted as electives, with approval by the DH certificate program director
- By petition, any other graduate course may be counted if the student completes significant digital humanities work within the framework of the course. This option may only be used once and it requires permission from the course instructor and the DH certificate program director.
Final project: a final independent DH research project located in the student’s home program (such as a thesis, or a portion thereof) or a collaborative DH project with substantial student participation. The final project will be overseen by the NULab faculty members teaching the NULab Project Seminar during its development; NULab workshop instructors will advise students on their projects and help students get guidance from other faculty as appropriate. Final projects will be submitted with three components: the project itself, a written project description of about 2,000 words, and a presentation to the NULab community. The DH Certificate Committee will formally approve all final projects.