Digital Culture Studies Certificate
The Digital Culture Studies Certificate (DCSC), open to all majors, emphasizes critical thinking, technological praxis, and collaborative pedagogy through concentrated coursework and proficiency in studies of digital humanities and computer programming.
Digital Culture Studies Certificate
The DCSC requires the completion of a minimum of 18 credit hours of coursework, (four classes, 12 credit hours) taught by the College of Humanities and two classes (6 credit hours) taught by affiliated Colleges and Departments. The first three classes required for the Certificate provide students with foundation skills and knowledge in the areas of digital culture studies and computer programming. Students will then take two classes in affiliated Colleges and Departments that provide an overview and knowledge about new media within their major areas of study.
All students are required to take “Introduction to Digital Culture Studies,” which will be offered across the various departments, taught on a rotating basis by faculty in partner departments. Three classes will be taken from within the College of Humanities. Two will be taken from Computer Science or another partner department. Moreover, DCS offers optional modules students may take in two-hour sessions, held at the Digital Matters Lab in the Marriott Library.
Course Number | Course Title | Credit Hours | |
---|---|---|---|
Required Courses | HUM 2010 | Introduction to Digital Culture Studies | 3 |
Elective Courses | COMM 3020 | Media Theory and Popular Culture | 3 |
COMM 3510 | Intro to Web Design | 3 | |
COMM 4550 | Developments in New Media | 3 | |
COMM 5610 | IT and Global Conflict | 3 | |
COMM 5640 | Comm Technology & Culture | 3 | |
COMM 5650 | Video Games Studies | 3 | |
ENGL 2085 | Digital Culture | 3 | |
ENGL 2090 | Video Games and Storytelling | 3 | |
ENGL 3600 | Critical Theory | 3 | |
ENGL 5995 | Digital Humanities | 3 | |
WRTG 3015 | Professional Writing | 3 | |
WRTG 3040 | Digital Storytelling | 3 | |
WRTG 4030 | Visual Rhetoric | 3 | |
WRTG 4040 | Digital Rhetoric | 3 | |
WRTG 5830 | Digital Publishing | 3 | |
ART 4635 | Interactive Experiences | 3 | |
ART 4645 | Information Graphics | 3 | |
COMP 1010 | Programming for All 1 | 3 | |
COMP 1020 | Programming for All 2 | 3 | |
EAE 1010 | Survey of Games | 3 | |
EAE 1050 | Digital Content Creation | 3 | |
EAE 3010 | Asset Pipeline | 3 | |
EAE 3035 | Storycrafting for Games | 3 | |
EAE 3710 | Video Game Development | 3 | |
EAE 3720 | Alternative Game Development | 3 | |
ETHNC 3520 | Asian Pacific American Contemporary Issues | 3 | |
Film 2700 | Video Games and Virtual Worlds | 3 | |
Film 3412 | Final Cut Pro | 3 | |
Film 3420 | Sound for Film and Digital Media | 3 | |
Film 3610/20 | Computer Animation | 3 | |
GEOG 1100 | Google Earth | 3 | |
GEOG 1180 | Geo-programming | 3 | |
GEOG 3100 | Geo-programming | 3 | |
GNDR 3573 | Queer Representation in Media | 3 | |
GNDR 2235 | Celebrity | 3 | |
GNDR 5650 | Race, Gender, and Popular Culture | 3 | |
SOC 3051 | Living in a Digital Society | 3 | |
SOC 3381 | Exploring Inequality through Music & Film | 3 |
Digital Matters (Optional Modules) | |
---|---|
Data Curation | Web Design |
Text Analysis | Audio Design |
Data Management | Video Design |
Archival Practices | Digital Publication |
The Certificate Program in Digital Culture Studies addresses several needs. In the first place, for students in Computer Science or other technologically-focused areas of study, it offers vital cultural and historical context surrounding the very technologies that they study, design, operate, and create. This knowledge of the larger social matrix within which technological innovation is situated can only broaden their perspectives and encourage them to engage more fully with the ethical implications of their work than the requirements of their major might otherwise allow. Equally important, for students in the Humanities, the Certificate Program allows them to cultivate hands-on skills with computational technology that a traditional Humanities curriculum cannot readily accommodate.
Stay updated.
Digital Matters
University of Utah
295 S 1500 E
Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0860