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Digital Humanities, Graduate Certificate

2022-2023 Edition

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CSSH Graduate Programs General Regulations

The Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities allows students to pursue an organized course of study in digital humanities with the interdisciplinary faculty of the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks. This certificate can be completed both by Northeastern University doctoral and master's students in the course of their existing program of study as well as those seeking a stand-alone certificate. 

Digital humanities is an emerging field of research that is interdisciplinary in scope and collaborative in nature. The field is developing in relation to new digital technologies that have changed the objects of study, methods, and opportunities for research and teaching in existing humanities fields. Digitized texts are now read and accessed in new ways; digitized corpora of texts make possible new modes of quantitative and qualitative analysis (including “distant reading,” text mining, mapping, and network analysis); born digital objects constitute new primary sources in need of humanistic theorization, approaches, and critical vocabularies; and modes of encoding, aggregating, and connecting texts enable the creation of new archival resources that are changing our understanding of the archive itself as well as revealing new historical, literary, and cultural patterns.

The field is new and developing rapidly. Many students are eager for training in this area—both because DH is at the cutting edge of disciplinary work and because it offers new opportunities for employment within the academy and outside of it.

Academic Standing/Progress 

Students in the program are monitored for academic progress. Those students whose grade-point average falls below a 3.000 are notified by and meet with the director of academic programs. They are counseled that if their GPA does not rise to a 3.000 or higher, they run the risk of not graduating and are advised on strategies for improvement. 

Final Project

The student will complete a final independent DH research project located in the student’s home program (such as a thesis, or a portion thereof) or participation in a collaborative DH project with substantial student participation. The final project will be overseen by the NULab faculty members teaching the NULab project seminar during its development; NULab workshop instructors will advise students on their projects and help students get guidance from other faculty as appropriate. Final projects will be submitted with three components: the project itself, a written project description of about 3,000 words, and a presentation to the NULab community. The DH certificate committee will formally approve all final projects. 

Complete all courses and requirements listed below unless otherwise indicated.

Core Requirements

Course List
Code Title Hours
Topics/Readings/Methods
ENGL 7370Introduction to Digital Humanities (Introduction to Digital Humanities)4
or HIST 7370 Texts, Maps, and Networks: Readings and Methods for Digital History
Lab Project Seminar
Complete the following (repeatable) 2-credit course two times:4
INSH 7910
NULab Project Seminar

Elective

Course List
Code Title Hours
Complete 4 semester hours from the following:4
ARTG 5100
Information Design Studio 1: Principles
ARTG 5120
Research Methods for Design
ARTG 5150
Information Visualization Principles and Practices
CS 6120
Natural Language Processing
CS 7250
Information Visualization: Theory and Applications
CS 7260
Visualization for Network Science
CS 7290
Special Topics in Data Science
ENGL 7380
Topics in Digital Humanities
HIST 7219
Topics in Cultural History (selected topics only)
HIST 7250
Topics in Public History (selected topics only)
INSH 5301
Introduction to Computational Statistics
INSH 5302
Information Design and Visual Analytics
INSH 5602
Documenting Fieldwork Narratives: Oral History, Ethnography, Archival Practices
INSH 6406
Analyzing Complex Digitized Data
JRNL 6340
Fundamentals of Digital Journalism
JRNL 6341
Telling Your Story with Data
JRNL 6355
Seminar in Investigative Reporting
POLS 7334
Social Networks
PPUA 5263
Geographic Information Systems for Urban and Regional Policy

Program Credit/GPA Requirements

Minimum 12 total semester hours required
Minimum 3.000 GPA required

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