The goal of Foundations in DH Project Development is to teach graduate students in Art History, methods to plan, develop and execute a Digital Humanities research project.

Graduate students across the humanities are trained to critically evaluate earlier scholarship and produce critical scholarship of their own. They are rarely (never) trained in managing the project that will produce their critical scholarship. This UH certificate program hopes to better prepare the emerging professional in the Humanities. The goal of Foundations in DH Project Development is to teach researchers successful methods to produce a planning grant proposal for a UH Internal Award or an external planning grant to develop and execute their research project.

Topics covered include planning your idea, plan development, understanding data, strategizing asset management, learning and applying elements to a project that incorporate universal design, and proposal design.

Prerequisites: via Hewlett Packard Enterprise Data Science Institute (HPE-DSI) registration.

Textbook: None Required. 

Lecture notes would be provided through course Teams group

Attendance: Attendance is required

In-class/assignments: 100%


Foundations in DH Project Development
Badge I: Plan Development
Badge II: Project Development


Instructor: Dr. Linda Garcia Merchant, Public Humanities Data Librarian, UH LIbraries
Graduate Teaching Assistant: S. Shine Trabucco, Ph.D. Candidate, US History

Date: 25 August  2023 - 13 October 2023

Time : Fri  9:00 AM to Noon  (lecture is 9:00-10:00 AM, consulting times 15 -20 minutes each 10am - Noon or by appointment)

Lectures: Teams (lectures will be recorded and then uploaded to Teams)

Assignments: Moodle
Attendance is required