Professional Certificate Course

Professional Certificate in Digital Methods

2024

School of English, Drama, Film and Creative Writing, UCD in partnership with The Advance Centre (UCD)

This online Professional Certificate in Digital Methods offers a unique opportunity for graduates from non-STEM subjects and also those with professional experience working in the cultural sector to enhance and build their capacity to interpret data relevant to their academic discipline and beyond. It will familiarise students with basic computational methods in subject areas that do not traditionally offer technical expertise. Students will benefit from a range of online seminars and workshops by experts in humanities and computer science. No prior IT training is required.

Core topics include

  • Digital publishing in blog format
  • Introductions to working with data
  • Beginners guide to social network analysis for humanities research
  • The art of the podcast
  • Digital mapping
  • Digital storytelling online
  • Digital project creation and management

Applications for this course are open for September 2024 admissions now.

This module is offered in partnership with The Advance Centre (UCD): Professional Education for Digital Transformation.

Mode of Delivery: Blended/Online. Friday mornings

Fees: 1,260**

**Funding Subsidy Available: The HCI 3 Learner Fee Subsidy for priority skills areas is now available for this Professional Certificate in Digital Methods (Level 8) offered by the Centre for Cultural Analytics at UCD School of English, Drama and Film. To find out more, please visit https://www.advancecentre.ie/courses/dataincontext/profcertdigitalmethodsseptemberstart/

Start Dates: Week beginning Monday 9th September 2024

Requirements: Most modules offered as part of The Advance Centre require a 2.2 degree in a related discipline or equivalent professional experience. Should you have any queries regarding your eligibility, please contact info@advancecentre.ie.

How to Apply https://www.advancecentre.ie/courses/dataincontext/digitalmethods/

Key Learning Outcomes

  • Enhanced digital competence, including introductions to digital storytelling (eg. blogging, podcasting).
  • Ability to understand and produce basic data visualisations, basic machine learning and digital tools.
  • Ability to practically apply knowledge gained during the course to complete digital assignments and use digital tools to research and create an individual digital project. 
  • Basic project planning, time-management and realistic goal-setting to achieve project outcomes. Students will create an individual digital project, manage its development, evaluate resource materials and identify and use appropriate tools to deliver it.
  • Recognize and use appropriate copyright citation and licensing for newly created digital projects/works.
  • Learn digital communication strategies appropriate to a given work environment and the ability to communicate research effectively.
  • Strengthen skills in online research, study and writing.
  • Strengthen your capacity to work independently and collaborate with peers and mentors and gain experience and skills as part of creating your digital project.

Informal Inquiries to: Dr Maria Mulvany: maria.mulvany@ucd.ie or Dr. Karen Wade: karen.wade@ucd.ie.

View Prof Gerardine Meaney’s video introduction to the course here

Sample student digital projects completed as part of this course

The following student projects showcase the full range of techniques and methods demonstrated during the 2021 Digital Methods and Data Literacy Professional Certificate course, and are a testament to their originality and diverse interests as well as their ability to implement new skills.

  • A Stone’s Throw from Kevin Street – Chris Nugent
    Chris Nugent’s project, A Stone’s Throw From Kevin Street, provides a variety of local history resources on the subject of Dublin’s historic Kevin Street area, featuring articles, photography, video, maps, and a variety of educational resources.
  • About a Book – Jade O’ Connell Carroll
    Podcaster Jade Connell Carroll recorded an episode for the podcast AboutABook, incorporating original research and an interview, on the subject of fairy mythology and literature.
  • Lockdown Librarian – Margaret Curley
    Margaret Curley’s project, Lockdown Librarian, focuses on the WWII bombing of Dublin’s North Strand, and includes an interactive map of the affected locations, as well as a 3D scan of an incendiary device which was dropped during the bombing, and which is now in the collection of the Charleville Mall Library.” https://lockdownlibrarian.wordpress.com/
  • The Wanderer’s Afterlife – Julie Altemueller
    Julie Altemuller’s project is an annotated digital edition of the old English poem “The Wanderer ” which explores its different incarnations and its impact on modern literature. https://thewanderersafterlife.wordpress.com/