
Admissions to the Graduate Certificate in the Public Humanities is suspended as of Fall 2021. For further questions, please contact Megan Massino at massino@wisc.edu.
Graduate students pursuing degrees in any program at UW–Madison are welcome to seek admission into the Graduate Certificate in the Public Humanities. Students can declare their intention to pursue the certificate at any time. To receive the certificate, they must complete an application form, and are welcome to submit it at any time for review and feedback from the Associate Director, Megan Massino. The application requires final approval by a faculty subcommittee of the Center for the Humanities’ advisory committee.
There are no formal prerequisites for matriculation into the graduate certificate program in terms of coursework. However, only those students with B.A. or B.S. degrees from accredited colleges or universities who are currently enrolled graduate students at the University of Wisconsin–Madison are permitted to enter the graduate certificate program. Special students and undergraduates are ineligible to receive the certificate.
Graduate students pursuing any degree in any program at UW–Madison are invited to obtain a Graduate Certificate in the Public Humanities. The certificate is not a stand-alone program. Students who wish to receive the Graduate Certificate in the Public Humanities must take a core course, INTER-LS 700 Public Humanities: Theories, Methods, Cases offered each year, and develop a coherent, thematic sequence of three additional courses, for a total of 12 credits. All students also are required to undertake a capstone project.
- a. Discover inherent value of working collaboratively with constituencies outside of the university, especially community based program partners. b. Learn how to more effectively assess the needs and capacities of program partners and community organizations in general. c. Advance the Wisconsin Idea and its of community engagement across racial, ethnic, economic, and cultural differences.
- a. Recognize public cultures through institutions, publication, program development and public intellectual, art, and criticism. b. Gain understanding of Public Humanities as emerging/significant field and its academic/nonacademic value. c. Understand foundations of Public Humanities/current discussions about its nature/value. d. Develop concepts/skills translating humanities for nonacademics.
- a. Be able to critically analyze and engage with the role of the public intellectual. b. Develop alternative applications for scholarly research and training for use in a broader context.
Affiliated Faculty
Art
Laurie Beth Clark
Art History
Preeti Chopra
Asian American Studies
Lynet Uttal
Classics
Alex Dressler
Communication Arts
Robert Asen
Rob Howard (also Comparative Literature)
Jenell Johnson
Susan Zaeske
Comparative Literature
Vinay Dharwadker
Mary Layoun
Curriculum and Instruction
Simone Schweber
Bernadette Baker
English
Michael Bernard-Donals
Joshua Calhoun
Sara Guyer
Russ Castronovo
Tejumola Olaniyan
Folklore Studies
Janet Gilmore
Jim Leary
French and Italian
Ernesto Livorni
Gender and Women's Studies
Christine Garlough
Ellen Samuels (also English)
Geography
Kris Olds
Keith Woodward
German
Sabine Gross
Venkat Mani
History
Giuliana Chamedes
Nan Enstad
Stephen Kantrowitz
Jennifer Ratner Rosenhagen
History of Science
Dayle Delancey (also Med. Hist. and Bioethics)
Florence Hsia
Gregg Mitman
Journalism and Mass Communication
Greg Downey (also SLIS)
Jo Ellen Fair
Philosophy
Harry Brighouse
Daniel Hausman
Steve Nadler
Political Science
John Zumbrunnen
School of Human Ecology
Connie Flanagan
Marc Nelson
School of Library and Information Studies
Jonathan Senchyne
Ethelene Whitmire
Slavic Languages and Literature
Tomislav Longinovic
Spanish and Portugese
Ellen Sapega
Ksenija Bilbija
Theatre and Drama
Michael Peterson