Online Certificate Programs in Humanities, Humanistic Studies

Digital humanities: Online graduate certificateGraduate certificate in digital humanities.

The digital humanities graduate certificate from MU equips you with skills in interdisciplinary humanities research using new digital technologies — skills that university researchers and public and private sector employers recognize as essential in the 21st century.

Courses are semester-based. If you study part time and take one course each semester, you will complete the program in just over one year.

Various optional electives that are relevant to digital humanities.

As a distance learner in a University of Missouri graduate program, you qualify for in-state tuition rates, regardless of where you live.

Humanities, Humanistic Studies is administered by the School of Information Science and Learning Technologies. SISLT is a proud member of the iSchools consortium, an international coalition of leading information schools.

A certificate in data visualization will help students expand their skill set by teaching them to visualize big data, applicable to any number of fields from business, sciences, GIS, education, and more. Popular careers that rely on data visualization include data visualization engineers, business intelligence analysts, and data analysts.

Earning a certificate in data visualization at Lindenwood University requires 15 credit hours. Courses required for the certificate range from Infographics and Emerging Platforms and Analytics, to Imaging and Illustration, Design with Illustrator, and Big Data Analytics. Certificate programs must be completed within three years of enrollment in the first course.

If you want to advance your career and expand your opportunities in the field of data analytics, a graduate certificate in data visualization could help you become a more desirable candidate to employers.

Online Graduate Certificate in World War II Studies.

Develop your understanding of the politics, leadership, and diplomacy that enabled the rise of the Axis and Allied powers before, during, and after World War II with a graduate certificate in World War II studies from American Public University (APU).

Program of interest (You can modify it later).

This course is a global history of the Second World War. Emphasis is on the theaters of war and related events in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Southeast and Southwest Asia, the Pacific, and Latin America in relation to their impact on the national and military objectives. In this context, students compare and contrast the economies, industry, society, and culture of the United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Germany as major participants during the war. The role of diplomacy and strategy, the impact of war upon society, and the fighting on land, at sea, and in the air are also examined in terms of modern warfare.

This course examines the military heritage of the United States from the colonial period to the present time. Through an in-depth study of the extensive literature in American military history, students assess the key individuals, military policies, postures, organizations, strategies, campaigns, tactics, and battles that define the American military experience.

This course examines the Allied victory in Europe in World War II. Students assess how the American Army, trained for speed and mobility, performed during campaigns in Italy, France and Germany. The focus is on Eisenhower generals and their decisions concerning amphibious invasions (e.g., Sicily, Salerno, Anzio and Omaha Beach), airdrops (e.g., Italy and Holland), the race across France and slogging through Italy (e.g., the Gothic siege line and the Huertgen Forest), as well as counter strokes such as Monte Cassino and the Ardennes Bulge.

This course is a comprehensive analysis of the fighting during World War II in the China-Burma-India Theater, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, the Aleutians, and the Philippines. Students assess the amphibious campaigns in the central Pacific theatre and evaluate the impact of one of the most massive movements of men and arms in history. Primary focus is on land warfare, its strategies, tactics, leaders and lessons learned.

This course is an in-depth study of the politics, political leadership, and diplomacy that defined the Axis and Allied Powers during World War II. Topics address the factors that facilitated their rise to power the key political structures, relations, and personalities the inter-Axis relations among political elites versus the Allied powers and the diplomatic efforts employed by the Axis powers as they postured against the Allies and the rest of the world during the war.

This course is an analysis of the German-Soviet campaign during World War II. Finally, this course will detail the Soviet counterattack across the Vistula and Oder Rivers that ended with the die Gotterdammerung in Berlin.

Note: Not all courses are taught each month.

Please read all graduate admission requirements before applying to this program and be prepared to submit the required documentation.