Digital Humanities Graduate Certificate
Are you prepared for a world increasingly shaped and controlled by technology and the digital landscape? Our Digital Humanities Graduate Certificate offers interdisciplinary training that prepares you with the high-level technological competency needed to conduct research in the digital age.
Program Overview
The Digital Humanities Graduate Certificate teaches students to integrate digital tools with knowledge of the humanities, including literature, art, and media.
Students will gain hands-on skills in web design, AI and social media analysis, data analytics, digital curation, digital libraries, archives and records management, and so much more. Whatever your career aspirations, our flexible coursework teaches you to apply humanities research methods to digital technology, teaching you to better understand, visualize, and interpret humanities and historical data.
Our highly interdisciplinary coursework allows students to choose an area that best suits their interests, whether that’s usability and user experience, AI ethics, digital storytelling, or data management in a variety of landscapes.
This program is a great fit for students who want to use the power of technology to critically reflect on and analyze digital media.
Why Study Digital Humanities?
A graduate certificate in digital humanities at UT not only allows you to tailor your coursework to your unique interests in our rapidly evolving technological landscape, but you will also gain transferrable skills and work with world-class faculty.
Tailor Your Coursework
Our flexible courses allow you to choose classes in over eight fields—from the information sciences to sociology to English and even history and religious studies, you’ll gain a breadth and depth of knowledge that will set you apart in the job market.
Transferable Skills
Whether you plan to pursue a career in digital curation, user experience and usability testing, data visualization, or even museum work, our program equips you with digital literacy skills that prepare you for all the job pivots to come.
World-Class Faculty
In our program, you will have access to world-class faculty at the cutting-edge of integrating technology into the humanities. With faculty ready to mentor and inspire you, you will graduate with interdisciplinary skills that will help you hit the ground running.
What Can You Do with a Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities After Graduation?
In the Digital Humanities program at UT, students gain knowledge in technology, interdisciplinary communication, data analysis, and artificial reality technologies, while also creating new perspectives on historical data, archives, and research. In connecting computing science and humanities concerns, students engage in projects that prepare them for making a strong impact in the world of the humanities.
Depending on your passions and interests, Digital Humanities can take you down many different avenues. If you are interested in research, policy, and data, you could become a policy analyst, data scientist, or public service leader. Those interested in technology and user experience often become web designers, UI/UX developers, or digital project managers. In libraries, archives, and museums, you could work as a digital archivist, digital curation service manager, curation tools developer, or research archive manager. If you are interested in data curation and visualization, you could go into digital content creation, publishing, or content strategy. Whether you want to work at an academic institution, cultural heritage organization, nonprofit, publishing house, creative organization, or elsewhere- with this program, anything is possible.
Featured Courses
ENGL 595 Digital Humanities
This course serves as an overview of the theory and methodologies of digital humanities.
INSC 514 Information Technology Foundations
Students will receive an introduction to foundational concepts; theories, models, and frameworks for designing, adopting, learning, and using information technology (IT); analysis, evaluation, and management of electronic tools and resources; trends, capabilities, and limitations of information technologies for accessing, managing, and applying information from service user and service provider perspectives in various information settings.
CLAS 444 Archaeology and Art of Ancient Italy and Rome
This course is a survey of the archaeology and art of ancient Italy and the Roman world from prehistoric times to the fall of the Roman Empire (ca. 1000 BCE – 476 CE). Highlights include Etruscan culture and multiculturalism in early Italy; the development of Roman architecture, art, and urban planning; art and architecture used for political propaganda; Roman cosmopolitan culture and imperialism; theory and method in Roman archaeology.
INSC 589 Web Design
This course provides hands-on experience with creating websites using latest web site design tools and techniques as well as a theoretical insight into emerging trends and techniques. This course emphasizes understanding the basics of web design, website creation and evaluation, and covers the basics of usability testing and search engine optimization.
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