This is the first version of the 2025–26 General Catalog. Please check back regularly for changes. The final edition and the historical PDF will be published during the fall semester.
The graduate Certificate in Public Digital Humanities requires 12 s.h. of coursework. Students must maintain a Graduate College major program grade-point average of at least 3.00 for the certificate.
The Certificate in Public Digital Humanities requires the following coursework.
Required Course
| Course # | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| This course: | ||
| CLAS:7290 | Digital Humanities Theory and Practice | 3 |
Electives
Students choose elective coursework to suit their disciplinary or technical needs. Since electives are updated every semester, students can view a full list of available elective courses as well as access an elective course petition form; visit Public Digital Humanities Certificate on the University of Iowa Libraries website.
| Course # | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| 6 s.h. from these: | ||
| AFAM:6500/AMST:6500/ENGL:6050 | Critical Readings in Cultural Studies: Stuart Hall's Legacy and Influences | 3 |
| AMST:3078/GWSS:3078/MUSM:3078/SPST:3078 | Archiving Women's History | 3 |
| AMST:3600/AFAM:3600 | Digitizing Blackness | 3 |
| AMST:5000 | Interdisciplinary Research in American Cultures | 3 |
| ARTH:3000 | Digital Approaches to the Study of Art | 3 |
| CINE:4620 | Topics in Film Form, Style, and Theory (when topic is film adaptation) | 3 |
| CLSL:6014 | Later Empire (when topic is digital text analysis) | arr. |
| COMM:6336 | Seminar in Rhetorical Theory (when topic is critical approaches to digital culture) | 1-4 |
| ENGL:3182 | Digital Cultures and Literacies | 3 |
| ENGL:6080 | New Media Poetics | 3 |
| GRAD:6510 | Introduction to Programming | 1 |
| GRAD:6521 | Scholarly Communication and Journal Publishing | 1 |
| GRAD:6522 | Digital Exhibits: Effective Design and Development | 1 |
| GRAD:6530 | Open Source Web Mapping for Beginners | 1 |
| GRAD:6535 | Data Visualization and Mapping | 1 |
| GRAD:6545 | Introduction to Podcasting | 1 |
| GWSS:3050 | Topics in Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies (when topic is race, gender, and sexuality in the digital humanities) | 1,3 |
| HIST:6002 | Introduction to Graduate Studies in History: Historiography and Methods (when topic is digital related) | 3 |
| IGPI:4580/DATA:4580/STAT:4580 | Data Visualization and Data Technologies | 3 |
| JMC:3122 | Influencers, Artificial Intelligence, and Digital Games | 3 |
| JMC:3425 | Personal Branding | 3-4 |
| JMC:3640 | Information and Data Visualization | 3-4 |
| JMC:6333 | Seminar in Media Communication (when topic is critical media studies or digital cultures or global digital media) | 3 |
| RHET:7500 | Science Communication in the Digital Age | 2-3 |
| SEES:3540/IGPI:3540 | Geographic Visualization | 3 |
| SEES:4150/GHS:4150/IGPI:4150 | Health and Environment: GIS Applications | 3 |
| SLIS:6140/IGPI:6140 | Academic User Services and Technology | 3 |
| SLIS:6145 | Digital Preservation and Stewardship | 3 |
| SLIS:6155/IGPI:6155 | Information Visualization | 3 |
| SLIS:6350 | Archives: Theory and Practice | 3 |
| SLIS:6411 | Special Topics in Library and Information Science (when topic is designing "dataviz") | 3 |
Capstone Course
Students should complete all certificate coursework before they enroll in the capstone course.
| Course # | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| This course: | ||
| GRAD:6590 | Digital Humanities Capstone | 3 |
View Public Digital Humanities Certificate on the University of Iowa Libraries website for more information.