To qualify for the digital humanities minor, students earn at least 24 credits, passing each course with a grade of mid-C or better. (Grades of C- or lower, and courses graded P will not count for the minor.) Specifically:

• Students who declared the minor beginning in September 2023 must take all three required courses and at least three electives.
• Students who declared the minor before September 2023 must take two required courses (ENG 250 + ENG 470) and at least four electives

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Core Courses

In general, students are expected to take ENG 250 towards the beginning of their path through the minor and are encouraged to save the capstone for the spring term before they graduate. Registration in ENG 470 is restricted to students with junior or senior standing who have completed ENG 250 and two additional courses towards the minor. Beginning in academic year 2024-25, Humanities Research Data Management will become an additional prerequisite for the capstone.

• ENG 250 Literature and Digital Culture (Fall, Winter)
• DSCI/LIB 350M* Humanities Research Data Management (Winter)
• ENG 470 Technologies and Texts Capstone (Spring)
  • Prerequisite: ENG 250, DSCI/LIB 350M
  • Must have junior standing

*Previously offered as DSCI/LIB 400M

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Electives

Choose from the list of pre-approved courses or petition to earn credit for alternative electives. Note that:

• Your electives must come from at least two different departments.
• No more than two electives may be lower-division (100-200 level).

Always refer to the UO course catalog for a term-by-term listing of course offerings and be sure to check with the director of the minor if you have any questions about discrepancies between the catalog and this site.

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Alternative Electives

In addition to the courses listed above, petitions for alternative electives can be submitted to the director of the DH minor for approval. The petition process is designed to ensure that the minor is flexible enough to encompass new and emerging areas of research and teaching before they have time to be formalized in the curriculum, as well as to offer credit for relevant independent studies, topics courses, and internships.

Although students are permitted to count courses from their other degree programs towards the minor, the alternative elective option is not intended to create a mechanism for double-counting courses that you already took or need to take to complete your major. Students should therefore be prepared make a clear case for the relevance of the alternative elective course to the learning objectives of the minor in digital humanities and the student’s own academic goals in pursuing the minor.

To begin the process of requesting alternative elective credit, students should complete a petition form and schedule an advising appointment with the director of the minor. DH faculty members will review petitions with an eye to ensuring that students are taking a variety of coursework that will help prepare them for the demands of ENG 470, the DH Capstone. Petitions may take up to one full academic quarter to review and will not be reviewed during summer term. Note, however, that approved petitions can be implemented retroactively if the course has already concluded at the time of approval.

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