Program Overview

Introduction to the Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities

The Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities is an interdisciplinary concentration earned in conjunction with the individual Ph.D. requirements for the Departments of English, History, and Modern Languages and Literatures. This certificate is designed to provide students with rigorous training in digital humanities, tailored to their particular research interests and areas of specialization.

Goals of the Graduate Certificate

The goals of the Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities are to:

• Enhance the ability of participating departments to recruit strong Ph.D. students working in digital humanities
• Enable participating departments to better prepare DH-focused graduate students as both scholars and teachers
• Make participating students more competitive on both the academic and non-academic job markets

Curriculum Requirements

The curriculum requirements for the Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities include:

• A minimum of three DH-focused and/or digital methods courses (9 credit hours), selected from a list of approved courses
• MLL 774 or ENG 613: DH Practicum is required as part of the 9 credit hours
• Creation and approval of a final online portfolio showcasing projects and research utilizing digital humanist methodologies

Final Portfolio Requirements

The final portfolio for the certificate should demonstrate critical and practical understanding of the Digital Humanities. It should contain links to projects, articles, conference presentations, information about teaching, and other related scholarly and pedagogical work. In a brief introduction to each project, students should make clear exactly what role they played in group projects or individual designs.

Petitioning for Certificate Credit

Students may petition the Digital Humanities Advisory Committee to receive three credits toward the certificate for:

• Non-DH courses for which they complete a DH project
• Graduate coursework in DH from another institution
• Non-credit training external to the University of Miami

Conclusion

The Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities offers students a depth and breadth of knowledge about computational approaches to humanities scholarship, the ability to clearly articulate their own methodological approaches to digital projects, and experience with project management and working in cross-disciplinary collaborative research teams.