Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

If the humanities can be defined as preserving, reconstructing, transmitting, and interpreting the human record with the goal of producing a better understanding of ourselves and our place in the world, digital humanities is concerned with leveraging revolutionary technological change in the advancement of these practices. Digital humanities is not merely the use of computers and other new technologies as tools by humanists, but rather a continuous and reflexive engagement with emerging digital technologies and approaches to open up new fields of knowledge and map new intersections among humanities disciplines and between the humanities and.

Faculty: The Graduate School  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: Chapel Hill, NC, United States

What you will study

The certificate requires a minimum of 10 credit hours. Required courses include AMST 795 Digital Humanities Field Experience; AMST 498 Advanced Seminar in American Studies; HIST 671 Introduction to Public History; AMST 840 Digital Humanities/Digital American Studies; AMST 850 Digital Humanities Practicum; ANTH 454 The Archaeology of African Diasporas.

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