This transcripted certificate offers masters or doctoral students who intend to work in an academic environment, museum, or other cultural institution the opportunity to acquire knowledge of digital tools, theories, and methodologies and to become competent in conducting digital practice. The Digital Humanities Certificate provides a basic introduction to the development and application of information technology in the context of research and practice in the humanities. The certificate provides students with the skills, applied and theoretical, that are necessary to apply computational techniques to complex research problems as well as practical tasks in the humanities. The certificate program is open to students from any graduate degree program at Texas A&M University.
For more information, see http://dhcertificate.tamu.edu.
Course List Code | Title | Semester Credit Hours |
DHUM 685 | Directed Studies | 3 |
1,2 | 9 |
| Communication Law and Policy | |
| Communication and Technology | |
| Hypertext/Hypermedia Systems | |
| Human-Centered Computing | |
| Computers and New Media | |
| Seminar in Human-Centered Computing | |
| Computer-Human Interaction | |
| Digital Libraries | |
| Digital Humanities Theory and Practice | |
| Topics in Digital Research | |
| Quantitative Methods in Geography | |
| Geodatabases | |
| Applications in GIS | |
| Programming for Historians | |
| History of Technology | |
| Visual Storytelling | |
| Digital Image | |
| Image Synthesis | |
| Digital Compositing | |
Total Semester Credit Hours | 12 |
Successful course completion requires the award of a minimum grade of B.
DHUM 685 includes the completion of a digital research project. In order for the certificate coordinator to verify completion of this requirement, students must provide the following:
- A project proposal submitted in advance of taking the independent study course.
- Access to the digital artifact produced by the student during the independent study.
- A project report submitted upon completion of the project.
For additional information on what constitutes a digital project capable of fulfilling the certificate requirements, see the FAQ page of the certificate website.