• Professional Success: Find a path to career success, whether you are aiming for a position in academia, GLAM fields, the public sector, or industry.
• Experience: Find a role as an intern, research assistant, or Praxis Fellow, and gain important experience on DH projects and public humanities projects.  
• Resources: Take advantage of UVA’s extensive, internationally recognized network of DH experts and infrastructure. Our program is hosted by the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, supported by DH Center in the UVA Library, and enhanced by collaborations with DH-adjacent organizations around the University.
• Flexibility: Combine the DH Certificate with any graduate degree at UVA and customize a plan of study that matches your professional and intellectual goals.
• Community: Our students attend speaker events, workshops, and DH Mixers, making intellectual connections with a broad range of DH practitioners. Social events encourage students to share digital skills and experiences. 

UVA's extensive DH resources have enabled graduate students to pursue stimulating careers in many fields since the inception of DH here in the 1990s. Our network of alums from DH projects and the Praxis fellowship program has extended into many universities, diverse professional fields, and across geographical boundaries. Since 2018 the unique curriculum of the DH Certificate Program has encouraged DH Certificate students in humanities and humanities-adjacent departments to unite humanist approaches with insight into the technical workings of our digital age. 

The DH Certificate cohort is a lively cross-disciplinary community of about 40 students from ten departments across the University, including language and literature departments, history, art and architectural history, religious studies, data science, urban and environmental planning, and the constructed environment program. 

Students may complete the requirements in any order.  The suggested DH Certificate curriculum begins with either of the two required courses (the DH Practicum, taught in the spring, or the Intro to DH, taught in the fall).  

The program's elastic structure enables students to work with their academic advisors and the director of the DH Certificate Program in order to fit DH coursework around departmental requirements.  A DH elective may count both toward departmental requirements and toward certificate requirements.
 

The program is open to any enrolled graduate student at UVA. 

• Students in master’s and doctoral programs. 
• While students are encouraged to apply during their first semester of graduate school, under some circumstances students at a later stage in their studies may be considered for admission. 
• In advance of matriculation, students who have been accepted into a graduate program at UVA may consult with Rennie Mapp, Director of the DH Certificate Program, and may apply during the first month of their enrollment.