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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. 

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)