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Center for Digital Scholarship

Doctoral Certificate in Digital Humanities 

Note: This list of courses that count toward the electives for the certificate is a work in progress. Faculty: contact us if you teach a course that you think should be included here. Students: Let us know if you believe a course you’ve taken should be listed, or is should be included in your Certificate program. 

Spring 2026

RUSS 1990: Media Cultures of the Russian 1990s (Fabrizio Fenghi)

CSCI 1310 Fundamentals of Computer Systems (Deepti Raghavan and Malte Schwarzkopf)

CSCI 1377 Tools for Thought (Will Crichton)

CSCI 1952B Responsible Computer Science in Practice (Julia Netter)

HMAN 2402K From Big Data to Lilliputians: Considerations of Scale Across the Disciplinescrete technical decisions in practical exercises and project-oriented work (Holly Case)

CSCI 2952W Critical AI and Data Studies (Harini Suresh)

CSCI1460 Natural Language Processing (Ellie Pavlick)

RELS 2650 Digital Religion (Kera Street)

Fall 2025

HMAN 1300A Decolonizing Data: Approaches from Caribbean Digitla Humanities and Beyond (Tarika Sankar)

HMAN 1977G – Archival Activism and Digital Worlds (Katherine Mason)

DATA 1030 – Hands-on Data Science (Andras Zsom)

DSIO 2100 – Basic AI & Policy Ethics (online course)

LING 1771 – Introduction to Corpus Linguistics (Uriel Cohen Priva)

Spring 2025

HMAN 2402C: Reading the Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence, Language, and Literary Art (John Cayley and Ellie Pavlick)

HIST 1970G: Captive Voices: Atlantic Slavery in the Digital Age (Linford Fisher)

CLPS 1580C Visualizing Information (Leslie Welch)

SOC 2961M Computational Methods for Social Scientists (Han Zhang)

AFRI 1098 Black Digital Humanities: Black Technocultures (Kristen Reynolds)

Fall 2024

 AFRI-1099 Alternative Technofutures: Black Speculative Visioning for a Better Tomorrow (Kristen Reynolds)

MUSC 2210: Digital Performance (Todd Winkler)

ANTH 1201: Introduction to Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Analysis (Parker VanValkenburgh)

CSCI 1460 Computational Linguistics (Ellie Pavlick)

AFRI-1099 Alternative Technofutures: Black Speculative Visioning for a Better Tomorrow (Kristen Reynolds)

Spring 2024

AMST 1906V: Virtual Bodies: Play, Power, Performance (Kiri Miller)

SOC 2070 Text as Data for Social Science Research (Tiziano Rotesi)

AFRI 1490 Technologies of Recovery: Race, Power & the Black Digital Humanities (Kim Gallon)

DATA 1450 Text Analytics (Shekhar Pradhan)

ECON 1680 Machine Learning, Text Analysis, and Economics (Amy Handlan)

ITAL 1401: Simulation: A (Curious) History of Virtual Reality (Massimo Riva)

Fall 2023

SOC 1340: Principles and Methods of Geographic Information Systems (Kevin Mwenda)

STS 1700T: Race, Gender, and Technology in Everyday Life (X. Chacko)

CSCI 1951C: Designing Humanity Centered Technology (Ian Gonsher)

Spring 2023

SOC 2961B: Applications in Geographic Information Systems

MCM 1204K: From Analog to Analogue: Digitality and Ephemerality in Audiovisual Archives

AMST 1906V: Virtual Bodies: Play, Power, Performance

Fall 2022

SOC 1340: Principles and Methods of Geographic Information Systems

MUSC 2210: Digital Performance (Todd Winkler)

Spring 2022

AMST 1700Q: Latinx Digital Humanities (Kevin Escudero)

ANTH 2202: Advanced GIS and Spatial Analysis (Parker VanValkenburgh) 

Fall 2021

1010H: Advanced Digital/Cross-Disciplinary Language Arts (John Cayley) 

SOC 2961M: Computational Methods for Social Scientists (Rachel Wetts)

Spring 2021

LITR 1010D: Advanced Digital Language Arts (John Cayley)

ANTH 1201: Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Analysis (Parker VanValkenburgh)