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May 25, 2026
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2026-2027 Graduate Catalog
Digital Humanities Graduate Certificate
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The Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities (DH) offers graduate students the opportunity to study from an interdisciplinary perspective and add a technological component to their research. This interdisciplinary curriculum at the intersection of digital technologies and the humanities trains students in the theory and practice of Digital Humanities, including (but not limited to) digital archives, text mining and visualization, and image analysis. In an increasingly challenging job market, the DH certificate will allow students to gain a wide variety of methodological skills and perspectives that will improve their chances for the academic and non-academic employment. Home department: Interdisciplinary Programs .
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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
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 DH 592 (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.
Complete one of the following:
Six (6) credit hours chosen from:
- CLAS 562 - Special Topics in Mediterranean Archaeology
- CLAS 444 - Archaeology and Art of Ancient Italy and Rome
- CLAS 546 - Archaeological Statistics or
- ANTH 546 - Archaeological Statistics
- DH 592 - Digital Humanities Internship
- ENGL 412 - Late Eighteenth-Century British Literature
- 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 640 - Studies in Restoration and 18-Century Literature
- ENGL 680 - Advanced Studies in Rhetoric, Writing and Linguistics
- GEOG 522 - Maps, Society, Power
- GERM 556 - German Visual Cultures and Media
- GERM 423 - Themes and Genres in German Cinema
- HIST 642 - Seminar in 19th-Century United States
- INSC 514 - Information Technology Foundations
- INSC 516 - Geospatial Technologies
- INSC 524 - Metadata
- INSC 525 - Information Architecture
- INSC 527 - Knowledge Organization Systems
- INSC 533 - Humanities and Social Sciences Sources, Services, and Scholarship
- INSC 543 - Spatial Data Management
- INSC 549 - Museum Studies
- INSC 559 - Grant Development for Information Professionals
- INSC 562 - Digital Curation
- INSC 563 - Data Management
- INSC 564 - Archives and Records Management
- INSC 565 - Digital Libraries
- INSC 584 - Database Management Systems
- INSC 588 - Human-Computer Interaction
- INSC 586 - Usability Testing and Evaluation
- INSC 589 - Web Design
- INSC 592 - Introduction to Data Analytics
- REST 581 - Public Health in Holocaust Ghettos
- SOCI 415 - Visual Criminology
- SOCI 419 - Sociology, Science Fiction Film, and Artificial Intelligence
- WGS 469 - Sexuality and Cinema
Special / variable topics as approved by the DH program chair:
Non-Course Requirements
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