Comments on: Designing a Digital Humanities Graduate Certificate

By: Jim English

Jim English — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:02:31 +0000

I am all for this, and am interested in considering whether we have the faculty resources to make it work at present, or need to fold this into a cluster-hire initiative.

By: Rachel Guberman

Rachel Guberman — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:23:54 +0000

I’m excited to have this conversation in person tomorrow! In addition to trying to come up with what we see as, sort of, the necessary components of a digital humanities program, I think it’d be worth taking a look at some of the existing graduate certificates that Penn offers to get a sense of the kinds of programs that have worked for others. Here I’m thinking in particular about the Urban Studies Graduate Certificate and the Teaching Certificate from CTL. Are there other certificate programs at Penn (or elsewhere) that could offer models?

By: Tim Powell

Tim Powell — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 22:09:56 +0000

I am very supportive of trying to start a digital humanities program at Penn. I am very actively nationally in the digital humanities, but do not know of anyone else here at Penn working in the field. So even getting people together to talk would be a welcome start. I would be willing to teach a course in the digital humanities through Religious Studies, where I am on the faculty

By: Louise Krasniewicz

Louise Krasniewicz — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:51:34 +0000

It’s not hard to learn all the tools you need (website design, database construction, image processing, digital video, presentation software, ebook publishing, etc) in one or two semesters. It makes sense to me to have a teaching group (faculty/staff) that could be shared across the disciplines in the humanities and social sciences so that everyone isn’t trying to reinvent the wheel. Also, each program/department would have to commit to requiring and/or offering their students the training otherwise, if only a few students chose it, the training would not be cost effective.