GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN DIGITAL STUDIES salemstate.edu/graduate Online and Small Seminar Class Options – 12 credits
Looking for skills to make your humanities degree more marketable and to engage with new digital approaches to your field? Consider Salem State University’s Digital Studies Graduate Certificate. Digital tools and resources have transformed the humanities and the kinds of questions we can ask. Students with graduate-level training in digital studies can build careers in many fields.
The graduate certificate in digital studies offers students advanced skills in digital writing, data visualization, quantitative data analysis, text encoding, digital content curation, digital mapping, and topic modeling. These skills offer students the expertise to succeed in:
• Digital cultural heritage preservation
• Digital scholarly editing
• Graduate study in the humanities
• K-12 and college instruction
• New media content creation
• GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives and museums)
• Digital archiving and stewardship
Innovative, flexible, and practical for professionals and academics in almost any discipline, the digital studies graduate certificate will update your humanities degree while helping leverage your training to meet the needs of a new cultural marketplace.
WHAT WILL I STUDY?
REQUIRED COURSES
ENG 713 Digital Humanities
ENG 830 Digital Writing
ELECTIVES (TWO REQUIRED FROM ANY CATEGORY)
English
ENG 715 Topics in Digital Humanities
ENG 875 Directed Study
ENG 879 Internship in Digital Humanities
Library Media Studies
LBS 724 Digital Resources K-12
LBS 850 Emerging Technologies for Libraries
History
HST 703 Oral and Video History
HST 705 Institute: Information Technology in History
HST 990 Internship
RELATED PROGRAMS
• Master of Arts in English
• Master of Arts in History
• Master of Education in Library Media Studies
• Master of Education in Teaching History
DIGITAL ETHNIC STUDIES AND CULTURAL HERITAGE CURATION
The certificate offers graduate students the opportunity to apply digital methods and tools to Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and Asian American studies and to further cultural heritage curation. Salem State serves as the organizational hub of the Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium (DEFCon), a Mellon Foundation-funded national consortium of digital ethnic studies practitioners that supports the development of digital ethnic studies curriculum for regional public universities that are Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs), Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs), Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), and Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs).
INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
Graduate students in the digital studies certificate program have the opportunity to work with Salem State faculty on their scholarship in the digital humanities. Our HST 990 Internship or ENG 879 Internship in the Digital Humanities courses can be used to fulfill one of the certificate elective requirements. Experiences such as rendering historical manuscript letters into digital text or correcting and encoding novels and poetry for a documentary edition teach students both marketable skills and familiarity with powerful digital approaches and tools. More importantly, these experiences make it clear how humanities scholars, not the tools, make meaning from data, historical artifacts, or literary texts.
CAREERS
Students will gain the skills necessary for 21st century literacies: critical thinking and problem solving; creativity and innovation; community and collaboration; and the transformation of traditional writing into digital genres.
Digital studies and digital humanities help to prepare students for careers in cultural institutions such as academic libraries and museums and equips educators with the tools to prepare their students for the demands of the 21st century.
Apply: salemstate.edu/apply
Financial Aid: salemstate.edu/finaid
Email: gradadmissions@salemstate.edu
Phone: 978.542.6200
For accommodations and access information, visit salemstate.edu/access.
