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DH Apprenticeships

IDH Research Apprenticeships are mixed-level, undergraduate and graduate, research experiences that include opportunities to work on faculty and staff-led digital humanities projects at UT for credit and a small stipend ($250 for each undergraduate student and $500 for each graduate student). Faculty and staff sponsors can support one undergraduate student and one graduate student. 

The research apprenticeship seeks to

o   Be a model for engaging graduate and undergraduate students together in collaborative, vertically-integrated research and thus of wide interest by faculty in other departments and colleges across UT and beyond

o   Help students successfully complete the requirements for the undergraduate Digital Humanities (DH) certificate, the graduate Digital Studies (DS) portfolio offered through COLA and the MSIS/MA dual degree in the School of Information and English, among other programmatic requirements   

The program will include

  • matching project leads with interested students through an application process
  • pre-course consultations with students and outside advisors from the UT gems to conceptualize manageable projects and to craft achievable goals
  • providing development support in platforms for images, text, and AV such as Omeka, Scalar, and AVAnnotate
  • training in digital research and methods, project management support, and grant funding

Course Credit

Undergraduate Students will receive 3 hours of credit and letter grade for one lecture hour per week and 100 to 120 internship hours over the course of the semester by enrolling in L A 325: Topics in the Liberal Arts (Topic: Digital Humanities and Social Justice Archives). This course will also count towards the DH Certificate capstone requirement.

Graduate Students will receive 3 hours of credit for one lecture hour per week and 100 to 120 internship hours over the course of the semester by enrolling in L A 381: Advanced Methods (Topic: Digital Humanities and Social Justice Archives). This course will count towards the Digital Studies Graduate Portfolio

Attendance is mandatory for successful completion.