Graduate Certificate in Indigenous Digital Humanities & Cultural Collections Care at University of North Dakota

Programme overview

Enhance your skills and knowledge of cultural resource mangement. Study digital humanities, museum studies, archival studies and other related areas to help meet the demand of managing extant and newly formed tribal community archives.

Faculty: College of Arts & Sciences | Duration: 3-4 Semesters (12 credit hours) | Study mode: full-time; online | Intake: Fall (Aug. 15), Spring (Dec. 15), Summer (May 1) | Location: Grand Forks, ND, United States

What you will study

The certificate is comprised of 12 credit hours. English courses taken for the certificate, with the exception of the required ENGL 534, do not count towards the English MA or PhD unless previously approved as part of the candidate's course of study. The following courses are required for the certificate: In addition to the three required courses above, one of the following two courses is required. Required courses include ENGL 428 Practicum in Digital Humanities; ENGL 543 Cultural Collections Care; ENGL 544 Practicum in Cultural Collections Care; ENGL 535 Seminar in Multiethnic Literature and Culture; PHIL 575 Data Science Ethics.

Career pathways

The ability to create and curate digital collections, as well as to help care for material culture items across mediums, in a way that is informed by the study of histories and cultures of Indigenous peoples is highly valued by educational institutions and museums across tribal communities and… Roles include Collections Manager, Archival Assistant, Library Assistant, Digital Collections Manager, NAGPRA Coordinator.

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Application information

Entry requirements

A four-year bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited college or university. An overall undergraduate grade point average of 2.75 or greater for all undergraduate work or of at least 3.0 for the last two years. Satisfy the School of Graduate Studies' English Language Proficiency requirements as published in the graduate catalog.

Tuition is charged per credit, so the total depends on the modules you register for each year. Current fees are listed in the official fee schedule.

Terms run Fall (August-December), Spring (January-May) and Summer (May-August).

Apply through the official page: https://und.edu/admissions/graduate/apply.html

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