Graduate Courses

How to find electives:

  1. Review the master list of approved electives. Note: “Grad” denotes graduate courses, “LD” denotes lower division, and “UD” denotes upper division courses.
  2. Identify courses you’re interested in.
  3. Check the course schedule to see if the courses of interest are offered in the next quarter.
  4. Register!

Please fill out this form if you’d like to petition for an elective. Include all the information you can, including a syllabus, if available. Petitions will be reviewed at least once a quarter. Please email Deanna Finlay if you have additional questions.

Upcoming Courses

Please note that even though some these courses may be offered as undergraduate classes, graduate students are encouraged and welcome to register for them. We have also updated the course codes for a number of our frequently offered classes. Any of the following classes, except DH 101, may be taken to fulfill the DH 250 requirement, and any non-DH classes advertised here will fulfill elective requirements.

Fall 2025

  • DH 201 – Introduction to Digital Humanities

    Instructor: Cindy Nguyen

    Introduction to field of digital humanities. Historical overview of field from its beginning in post-World War II era to present, highlighting major intellectual problems, disciplinary paradigms, and institutional challenges that are posed by digital humanities. Examination of major epistemological, methodological, technological, and institutional challenges posed by digital humanities through number of specific projects that address fundamental problems in creating, interpreting, preserving, and transmitting human cultural record. How digital technologies and tools, ranging from map visualizations and modeling environments to database structures and interface design, are arguments that make certain assumptions about, and even transform, objects of study.

  • DH 250 – Information and Visualization

    Instructor: Cindy Nguyen

    Designed for introductory exposure to Python, GitHub, word embeddings, and network visualization. How can information visualization reveal and critique structures of power and forms of hegemonic representation in the historic and cultural record? Practice-centered study focuses on both critique and creation as interwoven approaches to information visualization. Culminates in collaborative, playful data-centered storytelling committed to alternative narratives and liberatory futures. Introduction to transdisciplinary skills of quantification, visual literacy, and data communication. Through hands on practice, group self-directed tutorials, individual and collaborative work, and aligned workshops, students are exposed to tools and techniques such as Web scraping, OpenRefine, Tableau, Plotly, Neo4j, GitHub, digital storytelling, digital publishing, and data journalism.