Advanced Certificate in Public Humanities
Advanced Certificate in Digital Humanities
NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science
Advanced Certificate in Public Humanities
Public Humanities in Doctoral Education offers an advanced certificate program for PhD students interested in delving further into the theory and practice of public engagement by humanists.
The Advanced Certificate in Public Humanities explores public engagement as a cornerstone in the careers of scholars, researchers, and teachers. In addition to opportunities for cross-disciplinary thought and collaboration, students meet and learn from practitioners, setting the groundwork for a diverse array of post-PhD careers.
ELIGIBILITY: All students enrolled in Humanities PhD programs in the Graduate School of Arts & Science and within the terms of their coursework are eligible. Students funded through the MacCracken program pay no additional tuition or fees.
REQUIREMENTS: Students must complete 12 points of coursework. All points may be shared with PhD point requirements.
- Theorizing Public Humanities (PUBHM GA-1001)
- Practicing Public Humanities (PUBHM GA-1101)
→ One additional course from the approved list of departmental courses.
This spring, the Core PH course being offer is Humans, Publics, Theorizing Public
Humanities (please see and share the attached poster):
PUBHM GA-1001 | AMST-GA 3213
W 2:00-5:00 pm
Instructors: Professors Julie Livingstone and Crystal Parikh
This course seeks to understand what constitutes the “public humanities,” by investigating forms of knowledge and critical inquiry that circulate between academic institutions and other public sites and contexts. We begin with theoretical investigations and genealogies of the “human” and the “public,” with particular care to understand how these have been structured by histories of colonialism, enslavement, and enlightenment forms of reasoning. What relationships constitute the human and the public, and from which perspectives do we conceive of these? What forms of creativity, responsibility, and activism are involved in sustaining, pluralizing and/or transforming our conceptions of the human and the public? We will pursue such questions together as a provocation for thinking about the possible meanings of the “public humanities.”
In the final weeks of the course, building on our discussions of the types of human entities and human endeavors that have shaped scholarly inquiry and practice, we will turn to what some have called the “crisis” in the humanities. We will consider the significance of pursuing humanistic inquiry in nonacademic settings. We will also examine the institutional forces that call the humanities into question and the alternate or unexpected places from which critical knowledges emerge, as well as methods for cultivating such spaces. We will hear from guest speakers whose work straddles academic scholarship and other sites of social and cultural analysis.
NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science
Advanced Certificate in Digital Humanities
All current graduate students at NYU are welcome to take one or more of the core courses offered for the Advanced Certificate for Digital Humanities. To earn the certificate, a student must complete the three core courses as well as two electives, for a total of 20 points. A maximum of 12 points may be shared with the points required for the PhD. Students in the Advanced Certificate program select two courses in their discipline from among the graduate courses offered in GSAS. Students are also able to take elective courses in other schools with the permission of the Program Director.
CORE COURSES
Intro to Programming
4 points
DHSS-GA.1120
Offered every fall semester.
This course introduces students to the fundamentals of computer programming as students design, write, and debug computer programs using the programming language Python. The goal in this course is for students to learn how to manage their files, data, and materials in their own ways, to explore original research, and to be knowledgeable partners when they collaborate with computer scientists and experts in technology.
Working with Data
4 points
DHSS-GA.1121
Offered every spring semester.
Spring 2023: Thursdays, 5 pm to 8 pm, Silver Room 515 Professor Christine Roughan
Data analysis in the humanities presents challenges of scale, interpretation, and communication distinct from the social sciences or sciences. This seminar will explore the emerging practices of data analysis in the digital humanities through a critical perspective aiming to be more responsible readers of cultural analytics, and a creative perspective that equips students to analyze and visualize data in a modern programming language (usually R, though exceptions are possible.) Readings are interdisciplinary: assignments will allow students to engage in exploration of their own dataset or to work collaboratively on a new dataset about New York City history.
Web Development
4 points
DHSS-GA.1122
Offered every spring semester.
Spring 2023: Tuesdays, 5 pm to 8 pm, Silver Room 510 Professor Zach Coble
This course provides a project-based approach to web programming and development. Students will study the principles of web design and each student will build websites based on content relevant to their interests. To complement these practical skills, we will look at how the web has expanded our notions of discourse beyond books and articles and explore how websites can be used for scholarly communication, with an emphasis on academic websites in the humanities. A deeper understanding of these topics will help you make better decisions in your own web development practice.
For more information, please contact the Faculty Adviser for Digital Humanities, or send an email to Jay Mueller.