Digital Humanities Graduate Certificate

Campus Code

Knoxville Campus

Graduate Certificate Type

Add-On

Admissions Standards/Procedures

Application to the Digital Humanities graduate certificate must be made through the Office of Graduate Admissions and by submitting a letter of application and copies of relevant transcripts to the DH program chair. The DH certificate is intended as additional study for graduate students who are concurrently enrolled in a master’s or doctoral program in another discipline at the University of Tennessee.

Students are generally admitted to the program prior to completing six graduate credit hours toward the certificate but may be admitted after having completed up to nine graduate credit hours, excepting requirement III, below. Students will select their graduate coursework in conjunction with the DH program chair, Dr. Hilary Havens (hhavens1@utk.edu) who must approve each student’s curriculum.

Academic Standards

Students must maintain a minimum 3.00 graduate grade point average throughout the program.

Credit Hours Required

12 graduate credit hours

The DH Graduate Certificate consists of a minimum of 12 graduate credit hours in interdisciplinary coursework outlined as follows.

• A maximum of nine graduate credit hours can overlap between the DH certificate and the student’s home discipline, as approved by the DH program chair.
• At least six credit hours toward the DH Graduate Certificate must be taken at the 500-level or above.
• Students should work with individual instructors to define course projects as Digital Humanities projects that can be showcased in their Certificate Portfolio. As part of the non-course requirement, students will assemble and submit a portfolio in ENGL 593 (or the equivalent) for evaluation to a faculty review committee consisting of the DH program chair and one faculty member assigned by the program chair. The portfolio will include the student’s final Digital Humanities Project, which will serve as the centerpiece for the portfolio, and will also showcase work in each class they have taken toward the DH Certificate.
• Only 400-level courses listed in the Graduate Catalog may be taken for graduate credit and be applied toward the certificate.

Required Courses

• Complete:

• ENGL 595 - Digital Humanities

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  Six (6) credit hours chosen from:

• CLAS 562 - Special Topics in Mediterranean Archaeology
• CLAS 444 - Archaeology and Art of Ancient Italy and Rome
• WGS 469 - Sexuality and Cinema
• ENGL 412 - Literature of Later 18th-Century: Johnson to Burns
• ENGL 462 - Writing for Publication
• ENGL 466 - Writing, Layout, and Production of Technical Documents
• ENGL 494 - Cultural Rhetorics
• ENGL 508 - History of the English Language I
• ENGL 531 - Readings in English Literature of the Restoration and 18th-Century
• ENGL 594 - Film History, Form, and Analysis
• ENGL 610 - Studies in Old English Language and Literature
• ENGL 640 - Studies in Restoration and 18-Century Literature
• ENGL 680 - Advanced Studies in Rhetoric, Writing and Linguistics
• GERM 556 - German Visual Cultures and Media
• GERM 423 - Themes and Genres in German Cinema
• HIST 530 - Topics in Medieval History
• HIST 630 - Seminar in Medieval History
• HIST 642 - Seminar in 19th-Century United States
• REST 581 - Public Health in Holocaust Ghettos
• SOCI 415 - Visual Criminology

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  Special topics courses as approved by the DH program chair:

• ENGL 443 - Topics in Black Literature
• ENGL 470 - Special Topics in Rhetoric
• ENGL 483 - Special Topics in Literature
• ENGL 484 - Special Topics in Writing
• ENGL 485 - Special Topics in Language
• ENGL 486 - Special Topics in Criticism
• ENGL 489 - Special Topics in Film
• ENGL 688 - Studies in Literary Criticism
• HIST 541 - Topics in Early American History
• MRST 510 - Special Topics

• ENGL 593  or an additional 3 graduate credit hour course – either an independent study or a non-designated DH class – for which students will complete an independent DH project and compile their Certificate Portfolio, intended to be a tool for job-seeking purposes. Students may take additional non-designated DH classes with added independent DH projects to satisfy requirement II at the discretion of the program chair and their professors.

  Note: courses that may fulfill a DH requirement have been submitted by faculty and include the above. Due to possible changes in course staffing and variable topics, it is recommended that students confirm program approval of courses in advance with the DH chair, Dr. Hilary Havens (hhavens1@utk.edu).

Non-Course Requirements

To receive the certificate, students must:
1) complete the Graduate Certificate Course Verification Form (located on the Graduate School webpage under the Forms Central tab) and
2) through MyUTK, apply to graduate from the certificate program.