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Fall 2026 Electives, Public Scholarship Certificate Program

August 23, 2026

In Fall 2025, we launched the Certificate Program in Public Scholarship at the CUNY Graduate Center.

It joins a suite of new academic programs which include the Certificate Program in LGBTQ Studies, and the M.A. and Ph.D. in Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies.

Students are required to take to two core courses to complete the Public Scholarship Certificate Program:

Introduction to Public Scholarship (3 credits) offered in Fall only, and
Social Justice and Public Scholarship (3 credits) offered in Spring only

in addition to two electives taken from a rich range of our existing courses and programs that represent the GC’s longstanding tradition of justice-forward, interdisciplinary, non-extractive models of inquiry, knowledge production, and collaboration.

While not an exhaustive list, here’s some of our recommended electives for Fall 2026 for the Public Scholarship Certificate Program:

ANTH 81700/WSCP 81000 Ethnography, Power, and the Archive. Thurs, 4:15pm-6:15pm. Orisanmi Burton
BAM 70500-01 Disability & Life Writing. Mon, 4:15pm-6:15pm. Julia Miele Rodas
BRES 70003 – 01 Research Methods in Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies. Tues, 4:15pm-6:15pm. Monique Guishard , Justin Brown, Tameka Battle
DHUM 78000 ST: AI and Machine Learning for Artists and Humanists. Tues, 4:15pm-6:15pm. Michael Mandiberg
DHUM 73000 Visualization and Design. Tues, 6:30pm-8:30pm. Julia Bloom
DHUM 78000 ST: Data Bias – How Big Data Increases Inequality. Wed, 4:15pm-6:15pm. Allen Hillery
HUM 70000 Introduction to Digital Humanities. Thurs, 4:15pm-6:15pm. Krystyna Michael
SOC 81900 Quantitative Research Methods. Mon, 6:30pm-8:30pm. Jeremy Porter
SOC 81900/DCP 70200 Methods of Demographic Analysis. Wed, 4:15pm-6:15pm. Frank Heiland
SOC 82301 Computer Mapping for NY and LA, and Global Cities: GIS. Thurs, 4:15pm-6:15pm. David Halle
UED 71100/PSYC 80103/WSCP 81000 Foundations of Queer Studies. Wed, 6:30pm-8:30pm. Laura Westengard
WSCP 81000/IDS 81640 Performing Futurities. Mon, 11:45am-1:45pm. Anaar Desai-Stephens + RaShelle Peck
UED 73200 Doing Visual and Arts Based Research. Mon, 2pm-5pm. Wendy Luttrell